Can someone remind me of the name of the flats that had an OP on the top when C company were working out of the Mansonic Car Park in derry
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Can someone remind me of the name of the flats that had an OP on the top when C company were working out of the Mansonic Car Park in derry
Rossville Flats, now demolished.
Thank you Bob
Yes Demolished between 1985 and 1986.
Two questions as I can’t remember first one did they give us full mags of 20 or was it just 10 rounds to ease the spring, 2nd one having seen A lot of pictures on the op banner site all the land rovers have doors yet for some reason I seem to remember ours not having any anyone put me right
If I remember right we had 18 rounds in our magazine.No doors =easier to debus.
I thought 2 x magazines of 20 (top 2 tracer). Discharge rounds on return to base and check, then replace in the other 2 magazines held.
Don’t remember that because it was only the baton gunner that would wear webbing to carry the rounds and I certainly didn’t carry a spare mag and the rounds were conventional certainly not tracersQuote:
Originally Posted by Derek Adams
Hi 20 if my memory serves me right 19 rounds in the mag you had two magazines colour coded by a paint spot on the base of the mag it was important to rotate the mags As for our Rovers yes all had doors it was a cold tour I can remember going down Ship Quay Street sideways thinking Oh F**k.The only stripped down rovers belonged to Int/Cop sections