Saw this on a historical subreddit recently so hopefully it’s ok to post here. Apparently it’s catholic school kids but don’t know anything else about it

by Frosty_JackJones

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  2. Careful wee lads you’ll be shot by the RA for fraternising. Or your poor mothers more like.

  3. Cute photo of a British soldier smiling with his human shields.

  4. Probably from before they started shooting innocent civilians.

  5. My father (Catholic) remembers giving a soldier a lolly to let him touch his gun.

  6. Hmm is this AI? I can barely tell anymore but the kid with the bat has a dodgy looking hand…

  7. Ah! ..the ould distraction technique ..

    Keep him distracted till someone sneaks behind him & mashes his head with a baseball bat!

    No wonder they got rid of the soft caps when a Man armed with an automatic rifle can be taken out by a schoolkid armed with a stick! lol

  8. they loved when kids ran up to them so they’d be safe from attacks often keeping them around and giving them snacks

  9. The soldiers were only doin their job you bigoted idiots

  10. Interesting his camo is black/grey, is this a colourised photo?

  11. Dont forget they came here initially to protect us against loyalists.

  13. Nice photo of children posing with an active terrorist

  15. You know that scene in starship troopers where they are showing off to the kids and letting them play with guns? Yeah, that.

  16. I grew up in South Armagh and I recall asking a soldier could we hold the gun – took 3 of us to hold it, I remember not expecting it to be any weight at all. In retrospect- not sure why a soldier would hand little kids a loaded weapon even with safety on- but sure….

  17. Keep Ireland for the Irish!

    That’s what the saying used to be now look at it …..

  18. Class, just a British soldier keeping the UK safe from Republican terrorists 🙌🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  19. Wee lad pretending to wallop him over the head with the stick🤣🤣

  20. When I was a kid we’d do things like this. From a nationalist background and was raised in the arse end of nowhere but still had some incidents and the soldiers would come through every now and again. We’d not hang out with them like this but would ask for any spare face paint they had and from time to time get it. We’d were blissfully ignorant as kids to how things were and the troubles.

  21. Bizarre to think the Army went on to protect Catholics from Protestants

  22. I’ve seen the one with stick in old photos of the troubles before. I remember because he looked like a guy at work, and I asked was it a relation of theirs. Photos I saw was a Gallery, possible Ulster Museum I can’t remember, they were of Falls/Clonard/Grosvenor/Springfield. This is mid 80’s

  23. They use to show us their guns and were very friendly, as soon as they got back in their Landrover we went back to stoning them as they were waving at us hanging out the back.

  25. He looks like he has good trigger discipline as well, setting a good example for the kids

  26. Did they not used to encourage kids to be around them so as to offer some protection (i.e., a human shield)?

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