Deal Marines’ funeral - Speech by Commandant General

Title

Deal Marines’ funeral - Speech by Commandant General

Genre

Speech

TX Date

29 Sep 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:00:55

Description

Speech by Lieutenant General Sir Martin Garrod, Commandant General of the Royal Marines, in which he brands the IRA, thugs, extortionists, torturers, murderers and cowards - in fact, the scum of the earth. The comments were made following the funeral of bandsmen killed in the bomb attack on the Royal Marines’ barracks in Deal, Kent (22/09/89).

Contributors

Martin Garrod

Keywords

Armed forces; Terrorism; UK; Great Britain; Kent; IRA; England; Funerals; Barracks; Bombs; Explosions; Marines; Deal

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