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Follow-up memo on deployment of additional troops to Northern Ireland, 10 July 1996

Writing Peace: The National Archives of the UK (TNA)

This document contains a memo that was written by Mike Venables [Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Defence] to John Holmes [Private Secretary to Prime Minister John Major] on 10 July 1996, to inform the Prime Minister's office that two additional battalions were being prepared for deployment in Northern Ireland, to help contain the large demonstrations that were being planned in the coming days.

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07
1996
PREM 19/5713
86 1996 - 1996
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The National Archives of the UK (TNA), digitized by the Quill Project at https://quillproject.net/resource_collections/351/.