The Royal Irish Rifles (became the Royal Ulster Rifles from 1 January 1921) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army, first created in 1881 by...
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The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd, 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment) (R IRISH) is an infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment...
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regiments of the North Irish Brigade: the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, the Royal Ulster Rifles and the Royal Irish Fusiliers. The date was initially known...
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reinforced by ten 8th Hussars Cromwell tanks (Cooper Force), stood the Royal Ulster Rifles (RUR). By 3 January there was nothing between them and the onrushing...
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first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a former Royal Ulster Rifles soldier from Northern Ireland. The group undertook an armed campaign...
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Lancaster Regiment. North Irish Brigade: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Royal Ulster Rifles. Light Infantry Brigade: King's Own Yorkshire...
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the British Army by the Royal Dragoon Guards, the Royal Ulster Rifles, the London Irish Rifles, the Irish Guards, and the North Irish Horse, and it is...
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Irish Brigade, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the Royal Ulster Rifles, to become the Royal Irish Rangers. The regiment was formed in 1881 as part...
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battalions for three existing regiments: the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. The division served from...
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in the North Irish Brigade, the Royal Ulster Rifles, and the Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) into the Royal Irish Rangers. On 1 July 1881 the...
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Initially raised as an infantry battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles (RUR) in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1942. It served in Tunisia, Malta...
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Billy Hanna (category Ulster Volunteer Force members)
serving with the British Army's Royal Ulster Rifles in the Korean War. He then joined the Territorial Army and later the Ulster Special Constabulary. When...
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Northern Ireland (HQNI) chaired by Major General A.J. Dyball of the Royal Ulster Rifles, then the deputy director of operations in Northern Ireland. The...
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regiments in the North Irish Brigade, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, The Royal Ulster Rifles and The Royal Irish Fusiliers) were granted the wearing...
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Talaiasi Labalaba (category Royal Ulster Rifles soldiers)
July 1972. Labalaba initially served in the British Army in the Royal Ulster Rifles. On 19 July 1972 the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied...
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James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon (category Royal Ulster Rifles officers)
Craig supported Major Frederick Crawford in arming the Ulster Volunteers (UVF) with rifles and ammunition purchased, and smuggled, from Imperial Germany...
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(London Irish Rifles). In 1937, when the London Regiment was disbanded, the unit became known as London Irish Rifles, the Royal Ulster Rifles. After the...
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William McFadzean (category Royal Ulster Rifles soldiers)
by the Royal Ulster Rifles Museum, in Belfast. There are a number of memorials and remembrances of McFadzean, who is the best known of the Ulster Division...
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War Office and the barracks were put into use as the depot of the Royal Ulster Rifles, who had relocated from Victoria Barracks, as soon as they opened...
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Paddy Mayne (category Royal Ulster Rifles officers)
Then, in April 1940, he was transferred again, this time to the Royal Ulster Rifles. Following Churchill's call to form a "butcher and bolt" raiding...
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United Kingdom in the Korean War (section Royal Navy)
Highlanders 1st Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment 1st Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles 1st Battalion, King's...
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Rur is a river mostly in Germany. Rur or RUR may also refer to: Royal Ulster Rifles, a British Army regiment (1793–1968) Rugby Union of Russia, a sports...
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7 June. The 6th Airlanding Brigade headquarters, 1st Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles and the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment landed at LZN...
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Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals, at Belfast 5th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Derry 6th Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles at Belfast 5th...
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Gusty Spence (category Royal Ulster Rifles soldiers)
the area until joining the British Army in 1957 as a member of the Royal Ulster Rifles. He rose to the rank of Provost Sergeant (battalion police). Spence...
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Michael Mates (category Royal Ulster Rifles officers)
[citation needed] On 18 June 1955, Mates was commissioned into the Royal Ulster Rifles, British Army, as a second lieutenant. On 1 February 1957, he was...
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Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1st Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles 12th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment 3rd Parachute Brigade (from 15...
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John Watts (British Army officer) (category Royal Ulster Rifles officers)
Andover, Massachusetts, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Watts was commissioned into the Royal Ulster Rifles in 1951. He served with 22 Special...
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Semple (late Royal Engineers) 1972–1975 Brigadier John Simpson (late Gordon Highlanders) 1975–1979 Brigadier John Watts (late Royal Ulster Rifles) 1979–1983...
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Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Fusiliers), under Lieutenant-Colonel Kingsley Foster; the 1st Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles (Rifles), under the...
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