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  1. Aug 29, 2022 · It is not clear if the Billy Boys - who took their name from King William of Orange - were formed by Fullerton or if he simply joined up and became their leader. However, he made them one of the largest and most powerful organised street gangs in British history.

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  2. Aug 14, 2022 · The Billy Boys would fight with equal enthusiasm against teams of specially recruited police officers led by Glasgow's chief constable, Sir Percy Sillitoe. Dubbed the 'Hammer of the Gangs', he met force with force in a bid to stamp them out.

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Billy_BoysBilly Boys - Wikipedia

    Billy Boys originated in the 1920s as the signature tune of the Billy Boys, who were a Protestant Glasgow razor gang in Bridgeton (an area of Glasgow historically associated with the city's Protestant population, and with Scottish unionism - Brigton is the Scots form of Bridgeton) led by Billy Fullerton. The gang was named after King William of ...

  4. Sep 1, 2019 · Their name came from William of Orange (King Billy), whose victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 secured Protestant rule in England and Scotland, as well as Ireland.

  5. The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was originally released in six volumes before being republished as a single-volume work.

  6. ABC. Release. 1974. ( 1974) Billy and Percy is a 1974 Australian docudrama based on the relationship between Prime Minister Billy Hughes and his private secretary Percy Deane during World War I. It was based primarily on Deane's diaries. [ 1][ 2]

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  8. Sep 1, 2019 · Their name came from William of Orange (King Billy), whose victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 secured Protestant rule in England and Scotland, as well as Ireland. The Billy Boys came from...