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  • Any squaddie worth his salt would join the Irish Guards in London; any peeler up to scuds would get into one of the big metropolitan police forces across the water.

    The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007

  • JONES: Of course, the Irish Guards formed by Queen Victoria and the Queen Mother took a very deep interest in all that the Irish Guards did.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2002 2002

  • JONES: A very difficult task for the bearers, some of whom of course, might have actually spoken with the Queen Mother when she presented a shamrock to them, so the eyes of all the pressure upon these particular soldiers to perform not only for the Queen Mother, but for their own battalion and regiment of Irish Guards.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2002 2002

  • She was the colonel in chief and took a very lively and keen interest in what the Irish Guards, or, as they are called, her micks, are involved in.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2002 2002

  • The Foot Guards of Grenadiers (ph), the Cole Streams (ph), the Irish Guards, of course, Scotch Guards and the Welsh Guards.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2002 2002

  • Gen. FitzClarence of the Irish Guards, who were killed, and of Brig.

    The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various

  • About 6.30 a.m., on the morning of October 15th, we were relieved in West Face by portions of the 5th and 6th Battalions, and by Grenadiers of the Irish Guards, and withdrawn to "Railway Reserve Trench," where we joined up with the remainder of B and C Companies.

    The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

  • -- Company, Irish Guards, from Captain Donald Courtier, in memory of February 9th, 1916.

    The Orchard of Tears Sax Rohmer 1921

  • Norah formed a fast friendship with a cheerful subaltern in the Irish Guards, who was with them for a wet fortnight, much of which he spent in the kitchen stoning fruit, making jam, and acting as bottler-in-chief to the finished product.

    Captain Jim Mary Grant Bruce 1918

  • Malley, of the Irish Guards, wounded long ago, now wearing the brassard of the Military Police.

    Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907

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