Sentences with phrase «british army base»

Ebrington Barracks, which was built in the early 1840s, is a former British Army base, so it has a long history connecting it to the Troubles and to the devastating impact of Bloody Sunday, which took part in the city's Bogside area.

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British - based monitor, said at least 14 people were killed including some fighters of various nationalities, a reference to Iranian - backed Shiite militia members, mostly from Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran fighting alongside the Syrian army.

James is a London barrister with a former career in the British Army, while Chris hosts a Pennsylvania - based Christian radio show called Iron Sharpens Iron, with an emphasis on Reformed theology.

Furthermore Sikhs have been prominent (based on the fact that their world population is relatively small) in the Indian army, British Army and now are going onto a second and third generation in the US and Canadian armies as well as all over Eurarmy, British Army and now are going onto a second and third generation in the US and Canadian armies as well as all over EurArmy and now are going onto a second and third generation in the US and Canadian armies as well as all over Europe.

PC Carroll's murder by the Continuity IRA came days after two British soldiers were gunned down outside their army base in Massereene, County Antrim.

The number of troops stationed at Basra air base are set to halve by 2,500 as the British army moves towards an overwatch role in Iraq.

Based on his best - selling memoir, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II.

Greengrass uses a similarly breathless, semi-documentary style that could be mistaken for reality; he also boldly courts controversy with an account that's clearly at odds with the «official story» based on the British army's version of events.

LONDON, 8th October 2014 — BAFTA nominated director Oliver Parker will direct a stellar, award - winning British cast based on characters from the much loved British comedy, DAD»S ARMY, originally created by Jimmy Perry and David Croft.

Based on a true story as recounted in Eric Lomax's 1995 autobiography of the same name, The Railway Man relates of how British Army signal officer Lomax (Firth, The King's Speech) survived adverse conditions in a Japanese POW encampment in Thailand during World War II, including grueling cruelty and torture, and the PTSD would affect his outlook and demeanor nearly 40 years later.

A British soldier in the Territorial Army (TA) who is on military service in Iraq is subject to the jurisdiction of the UK within the meaning of Art 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention), so as to benefit from the rights guaranteed by the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998), while operating in Iraq, not simply while on a British military base or in a British hospital.