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4th/5th Battalion The Royal Irish Rangers Annual Camp 1995, Scotland.	4th/5th Battalion The Royal Irish Rangers joins the Army Order of Battle.	5th (Volunteer) Battalion The Royal Irish Rangers Annual Camp, 1991, England.	6 RIR attack Kjupri, Salonika.	6 RIR into the Line, Macedonia
6th Inniskillings attack Licolle at Sangro	7 UDR and 10 UDR Amalgamate	716 Company, RASC, 6 June 1944	7th (City of Belfast) Battalion deploy on Exercise IRISH HARP to Stanford Training Area	7th Battalion The Royal Irish Rifles form up in Belfast
8 RUR - Mistaken in Malta	83rd Regiment defend Mount Abu, the Indian Mutiny	83rd Regiment at Fighting Island, Canada.	83rd Regiment's actions in Lower Canada	86th Regiment - Storming of Baroach, India
86th Regiment of Foot Marine Detachment - HMS Boyne, Spithead, 1795	86th Regiment of Foot sent from India to Egypt to fight against the French*	87th and 89th Regiment land at Ostend.	87th and 89th Regiment of Foot retitled.	89th at the Battle of Crysler's Farm
89th Regiment at the Battle of Lundy's Lane, Canada	89th Regiment Cross the Niagara River, Canada.	89th Regiment land at Balaclava, Irish in the Crimean War.	9th Faughs advance against the Germans at Bailleul	A Battle Cry

Welcome to the Royal Irish Virtual Military Gallery, The Irish Soldier in The British Army

'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. He was facing the right way, the last round of a clip in the breech and three dead Germans in front of him. His name was Duff. After all is over - and the remainder of the Empire is understandably irritated with Ireland - I hope these countless Duffs, from both the North and the South, and in all three services, will be remembered.
(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)

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