Photos British Army In Northern Ireland

[Kadir93]

British Army trooper bearing ColtArmalite AR-15 5.56mm assault rifle in midst of road at Crossmaglen, 1985.

 

[BravoZulu]

Metropolitan Police SFO (and author) Tony Long overlooking an IRA weapons cache. Operation Catnip, 1992

 

[RisingStar]

British soldiers seek cover from stone-throwing demonstrators hide behind a wall. Visible in the background is a graffiti encouraging people to join the IRA (1971)

 

[BravoZulu]

Gordon Highlander with his L1A1 with Trilux SUIT sight, and commandeered vehicle. Belfast, 1977

 

[SamWell]

 

[NebrHogger]

Somewhere in Northern Ireland - date not given.

 

[BravoZulu]

Somewhere in Northern Ireland - date not given.
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This photograph was taken while Don McCullin was on assignment for ‘The Sunday Times Magazine’ and was first published as part of a photo-story entitled ‘War on the Home Front’ in December 1971. It is the first of three photographs taken within moments of each other that were originally printed as a photo-sequence, providing a snapshot of the violence in Northern Ireland. McCullin has captured the decisive moments of this scene, exploiting the repetition of line in the horizontals of the windowsills set in the wall, the stripes on the soldiers’ shields and the plank of wood the young man holds above his head to order his composition. As the subsequent images show, here the repeated linear motif emphasises a moment of calm before an outburst of physical aggression.

 

[NebrHogger]

That had to be horrible duty!