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‘Pte Donovan Royal Anglian Regt Hastings Street, Belfast Sanger’, 26 June 1972. Carbon, signed and dated lower right. by Ralph Lillford, 1972. Associated with Northern Ireland (1969-2007). Armed with an L1A1 SLR (self-loading rifle), Private Donovan wears the standard M69 flak jacket over DPM (disruptive pattern material) jacket and trousers. His headgear is a 1944-pattern GS helmet with the shatterproof Makrolon visor up. This was drawn during the 3rd Bn The Royal Anglian Regiment’s first tour of duty in Northern Ireland, which lasted from 11 April to 2 August 1972. The battalion was stationed in the troubled area of Belfast between the Shankill Road (mainly Protestant) and Grosvenor Road (mainly Roman Catholic). The area was bisected by a national ‘peace line’. To the east, Battalion Headquarters was a police station at Hastings Street.

BANNER, Operation, 1969-2007 (Northern Ireland deployment 1969-2007)