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Major Alan Marshall, who will face disciplinary action, led 10 men from the Royal Irish Regiment and their Sierra Leone Army liaison into a village held by the West Side Boys, where they...
Sep 15, 2000 · An inquiry into the incident found Major Alan Marshall had made "an error of professional judgement" when he took his men into an area of jungle controlled by...
Major Marshall, 33, from Northern Ireland, faces disciplinary action after an initial army inquiry found him guilty of " a grave mistake" and "an error of professional judgement". The case is...
On 25 August 2000, a patrol led by Major Allan Marshall consisting of 11 men from the 1 R IRISH and an official from the Sierra Leone Army acting as interpreter, Lieutenant Musa Bangura, left their base in Waterloo to visit Jordanian peacekeepers attached to the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and based at Masiaka. Over lunch ...
Sep 16, 2000 · ARMY officer Alan Marshall will not be made a "scapegoat" for the incident in Sierra Leone when a Royal Irish Regiment patrol was kidnapped at gunpoint.
On 22 November 2021, Marshall took up the post of Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations & Commitments) in succession to Major General Charles Stickland. He was promoted to air marshal on 8 March 2024, as he was appointed as Air and Space Commander, succeeding Harvey Smyth.
Jan 1, 2005 · Abstract. The Journal of Military History 69.4 (2005) 1264 On 25 August 2000, eleven men of the Royal Irish Regiment led by Major Alan Marshall were seized in Sierra Leone by a group of local...
