Peter Brush
Col. Peter Brush is the name given by Robert Fisk.[1] Flackes and Elliot record the name as Lt-Col. Edward James Augustus Howard Brush (1901-1984).[2]
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War Record
Brush was wounded in the defence of Calais in 1940.[3]According to Fisk, he became acquainted with Airey Neave, who was also captured at Calais.[4] He subsequently spent three years in POW camps.[5]
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.[6]
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.[7]
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.[8]
During the UWC strike in May that year his men blockaded parts of North Down.[9]
William Craig claimed later that Brush was in touch with senior Army officers at Lisburn during the strike.[10]
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.[11]
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.[12]
Subsequent Career
In October 1974, Brush resigned as Deputy Lord Lieutenant of County Down.[13]
In the 1975 constitutional convention elections, he was elected to represent South Down for the Ulster Unionist Party.[14]
Notes
- ↑ Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, pp 44-45.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.
- ↑ Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.67.
- ↑ Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.227.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.
- ↑ Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, pp 44-45.
- ↑ Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.94.
- ↑ Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.102.
- ↑ Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.102.
- ↑ Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.223.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.86.
