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Memo and speaking note 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. In the note, Venables informed Holmes that the Secretary of State [Michael Portillo] had agreed to deploy the Spearhead Battalion, Notice to Train Battalion and the reinforcement company (from the 1st Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment] for the Urban Reinforcement Battalion to Northern Ireland. The document encloses some press lines on the additional troop deployments, which had been cleared by the Northern Ireland Office.

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07
1996
PREM 19/5713
87 1996 - 1996
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