Matthew Edwards, :-) dinna fash yersel'. I'm a bit hung up on it but no reason for you to be. Some of this stuff will simply not be clarifed by research or logic. We'd need the author's own statements or else someone intimately familiar with the in-jokes & micro-history of the Troubles. I just ordered your referenced booklet from Inter-Library Loan. The only "Linen Hall" I've found is the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. The Reference desk there agrees that it's unlikely the soldiers would have been marching from a Belfast library and said they'd look into it for me. Wunnerful thing, the 'Net.