{"id":14723,"date":"2024-11-28T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/?p=14723"},"modified":"2024-11-28T16:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T16:04:57","slug":"visit-paul-scanlon-royal-ulster-rifles-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/en\/visit-paul-scanlon-royal-ulster-rifles-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Paul Scanlon Royal Ulster Rifles Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Visit Paul Scanlon who&#8217;s father served with the Royal Ulster Rifles Regiment<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Paul-Scanlon-Oeffelt-Bailey-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Scanlon at Veerhuis Oeffelt\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This week we had the honour of hosting Paul Scanlon, whose father was attached to the 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles during World War II before being transferred to the 9th British Infantry Brigade Headquarters as a camp commander. He started as a Lieutenant, was later promoted to Captain and after the war ended he became acting Major of a town in and around Bremen. His children never heard him talk about war. They had no idea what this man had been through and therefore never spoke about it again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After his death, suitcases and boxes were found in which his father had kept everything. From Sword Beach in Normandy on D-Day, through France, Belgium, the Netherlands to Bremen. His father spent a long time in our area with the Royal Ulster Rifles and the 9th British Infantry Brigade. They arrived 1 October 1944 in Beers and Cuijk, left on the\u00a012thtowards Sint Anthonis and then to Overloon and Venray, where they lost many of their comrades. Until spring 1945, they stayed in the Netherlands fighting on their way to Bremen. 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