Images and sounds of sectarian rioting in Northern Ireland became the staple fare of news bulletins.

Synonymous with the petrol bombs and flying bricks were the silhouettes of social soldiers deployed to contain it all.

As the troubles deepened so did the Army's involvement.
Soldier reported: "As Catholics hurled insults on Ballymoney Street, an irate Protestant youth broke the police cordon but was fended off in mid-air by the truncheon of 20-year-old LCpl Terence Evans of the Prince of Wales's Company, Welsh Guards.

Another young man hurled a stone, which cut the lip of LSgt Gerald Evans."
All in an afternoon's work.

In 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus.