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Photocopy press cutting from the 'Northern Standard', 17 May 2001. In which European MP Patricia McKenna called for a public enquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings which killed 33 people, 7 in Monaghan, on 17 May 1974. She claims that there is evidence that the British Army colluded in the bombings. From a collection of leaflets and pages photocopied from books about three military men who are commemorated in Monaghan, Ireland, nd. Associated with Lt Col Thomas Vesey Dawson, Coldstream Guards, Rear Admiral Charles David Lucas, VC and Lt H C J Lloyd, Queen's County Rifles. Associated with the Zulu War (1879) and the Crimean War (1854-1856). Lt Col Dawson and Rear Admiral Lucas, VC both distinguished themselves during the Crimean War. Lt Dawson was killed at the Battle of Inkerman, 1854 and has a memorial dedicated to him in Monaghan. Lt Lloyd, Queen's County Rifles, was killed at the Battle of Isandlwana, 1879. There are several carvings dedicated to him and the soldiers of the Zulu War in St Patrick's Church, Monaghan.