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Col. [[Peter Brush]] is the name given by [[Robert Fisk]].<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, pp 44-45.</ref> Flackes and Elliot record the name as Lt-Col. Edward James Augustus Howard Brush (1901-1984).<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>

==War Record==
Brush was wounded in the defence of Calais in 1940.<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.67.</ref>According to Fisk, he became acquainted with [[Airey Neave]], who was also captured at Calais.<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.227.</ref> He subsequently spent three years in POW camps.<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>

==Post-war career==
After the war, Brush took up farming in Co. Down where he became Deputy Lord Lieutenant and a leading figure in the Territorial Army.<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>

==Down Orange Welfare==
In 1973, it emerged that Colonel Brush had built up a paramilitary group known as [[Down Orange Welfare]] over the previous two years.<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>

==Ulster Workers Council==
He was brought on to the [[Ulster Workers Council] (UWC) in early 1974 in his capacity as leader of [[Down Orange Welfare]].<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, pp 44-45.</ref>

During the UWC strike in May that year his men blockaded parts of North Down.<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.94.</ref>

[[William Craig]] claimed later that Brush was in touch with senior Army officers at Lisburn during the strike.<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.102.</ref>

Brush neverthless believed he was under Army surveillance and claimed to have spotted a plain-clothes patrol tailing him in the second week of the strike.<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.102.</ref>

Brush was one of a number of UWC leaders who took part in a rally at Stormont following the collapse of the power-sharing executive on 28 May.<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.223.</ref>

==Subsequent Career==
In October 1974, Brush resigned as Deputy Lord Lieutenant of County Down.<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>

In the 1975 constitutional convention elections, he was elected to represent South Down for the [[Ulster Unionist Party]].<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>

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 Col Brush is referred to in various sources as 'Peter' or 'Edward' Brush. For example, Peter Brush is the name given by [[Robert Fisk]] in ''The Point of No Return'' , his book on the 1974 [[Ulster Workers Council]] strike.<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, pp 44-45.</ref> The [[Imperial War Museum]] lists his memoirs as those of Lt. Col ‘Peter’ Brush CB DSO, suggesting that was a nickname that he was commonly known by.<ref>[http://cain.ulster.ac.uk/cgi-bin/htr/htr.pl?sample=29&title=Department%20of%20Documents,%20Imperial%20War%20Museum The Northern Ireland Conflict Related Artefacts Database], CAIN, University of Ulster, accessed 4 August 2009.</ref>
-He is listed  as Lt-Col. Edward James Augustus Howard Brush (1901-1984) in Sydney Elliot and W.D. Flackes's ''Northern Ireland: A Political Directory', and this is almost certainly the correct version of his full name.<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>
+He is listed  as Lt-Col. Edward James Augustus Howard Brush (1901-1984) in Sydney Elliot and W.D. Flackes's ''Northern Ireland: A Political Directory'', and this is almost certainly the correct version of his full name.<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>
 ==Career==

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-Col. [[Peter  Brush]] is the name given by [[Robert Fisk]].<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, pp 44-45.</ref> Flackes and Elliot record the name as Lt-Col. Edward James Augustus Howard Brush (1901-1984).<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>
+Lt. Col [[Peter  Brush]] was the leader of [[Down Orange Welfare]], a paramilitary group that was prominent in Northern Ireland for a period in the 1970s .<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, pp 44-45.</ref>
-==War Record==
+==Name==
 Brush was wounded in the defence of Calais in 1940.<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.67.</ref>According to Fisk, he became acquainted with [[Airey Neave]], who was also captured at Calais.<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.227.</ref> He subsequently spent three years in POW camps.<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>
-==Post-war career==
+===Post-war career===
 After the war, Brush took up farming in Co. Down where he became Deputy Lord Lieutenant and a leading figure in the Territorial Army.<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>
-==Down Orange Welfare==
+===Down Orange Welfare===
 In 1973, it emerged that Colonel Brush had built up a paramilitary group known as [[Down Orange Welfare]] over the previous two years.<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>
-==Ulster Workers Council==
+===Ulster Workers Council===
 He was brought on to the [[Ulster Workers Council]] (UWC) in early 1974 in his capacity as leader of [[Down Orange Welfare]].<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, pp 44-45.</ref>
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 Brush was one of a number of UWC leaders who took part in a rally at Stormont following the collapse of the power-sharing executive on 28 May.<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.223.</ref>
-==Subsequent Career==
+===After the strike===
 In October 1974, Brush resigned as Deputy Lord Lieutenant of County Down.<ref>W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.</ref>

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 ==Ulster Workers Council==
-He was brought on to the [[Ulster Workers Council] (UWC) in early 1974 in his capacity as leader of [[Down Orange Welfare]].<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, pp 44-45.</ref>
+He was brought on to the [[Ulster Workers Council]] (UWC) in early 1974 in his capacity as leader of [[Down Orange Welfare]].<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, pp 44-45.</ref>
 During the UWC strike in May that year his men blockaded parts of North Down.<ref>Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.94.</ref>