Chronicles of a Derry Boy
By a roaring log fire, he told me his story, from boyhood to manhood and from poor Derry boy, to world traveled soldier. This is his story. Born into poverty in a large Derry family, he left home a boy of fifteen to soldier from Egypt to Bombay and from Singapore to Shanghai.
His was a story of travel, adventure, comradery and love. Whether in the deserts of Egypt or the jungles of India, the friendships, dangers and hardships prepared him for war. A company of Irish soldiers, bound by a fierce loyalty through the best and the worst of times. And war would come, dividing, testing, tearing, their friendships and the women they loved.
Chronicles of a Derry Boy tells the story of a remarkable boy, who carried the spirit of a remarkable town. No matter how far he traveled, the Bogside of Derry came with him.
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John McGinty was a Bogside boy from Derry, Irish through and through. To escape poverty and unemployment he became a soldier with the Irish Fusiliers. In the Army he found a home away from home, comradeship and friends for a lifetime.
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Born in poverty, forged in battle, bound by friendship. Chronicles of a Derry Boy tells a soldier’s odyssey through hardship, adventure, and enduring love.
