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An Irishman, living in England since 1967, I have served in the TA in London and am President of the Irish National Services Museum Association, which was founded in 1993, by W.P. Behan, who also served in the TA and whose father served with the Royal Ulster Rifles in WWll. Ours is a small organisation dedicated to ensuring that that the sacrifices paid by Irish men and women in foreign lands, on behalf of others, are remembered. Our ultimate aim is a museum for this purpose. Currently, our collection is used for research purposes. Artifacts, which illustrate the service of Irish people abroad are eagerly sought and gratefully received. We believe that it is essential that any items, including ephemera, photographic material or textual information should not be in an attic, under the stairs or, indeed, discarded, when they could form part of, or complete, a display and eventually, be seen and appreciated by future generations.
The service of members of the 38th (Irish) Brigade, along with those of other Irish Regiments of the British Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy and Allied forces is, for the most part, recorded. Voluntary participation by uniformed sailors of neutral Ireland in Operation Dynamo, though known to generations of members of the Irish Defence Force for 65 years, was unofficial and, therefore, went unrecorded by the Irish military.
We are particularly interested in making contact with people, or their descendants, who took part in Operation Dynamo aboard,or was evacuated by, the Thornycroft vessel, which was crewed by uniformed Irish Marine Service personnel. After the evacuation the craft served the Irish Navy until 1952, as "MTB2"
The Association can be contacted on insma@hotmail.co.uk.