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On the night 4/5 February 1945, the 2nd Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles sent its second patrol across the River Meuse to Hoeken. The patrol's mission was to capture a prisoner. At 2030 hours, Lt Beavan and 10 men paddled into the darkness in the direction of the enemy position at Hoeken.
The three Jewish movements in Mandatory Palestine consisted of the more moderate Haganah movement and the more extreme Irgun and Lehi movements who all sought the establishment of an independent Jewish state in the 'Land of Israel'. The latter two began a fresh revolt against the British mandate in 1944 and in 1945 the Haganah joined the Irgun and Lehi in what was known as the Jewish Resistance Movement, jointly escalating the armed struggle to attack British controls on the immigration of European Jews as well as police and military targets.
In January 1963, President Sukarno’s government of Indonesia announced that it would be pursuing a policy of Konfrontasi following British proposals for an amalgamation of the Federation of Malaya, Singapore and British Borneo (North Borneo and Sarawak). Sukarno sought to explain the expansion of this new amalgamated Malaysia as nothing other than a continuation of British colonial influence in the region. However, he viewed the expansion of a Malaysia supported by the British as an obstacle to his regional power ambitions.
Towards the end of January 1945, the 2nd Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles was in position facing the Germans across the Meuse River in Belgium. Because of the likelihood of an advance in their sector, it was important to know where the enemy's positions were located, whether the Germans had changed the layout of their defences and which units were facing the Rifles.
The Russian Army had suffered defeats in the first year of the war, but the Brusilov Offensive from 4 June-20 September 1916 was its most successful offensive of the First World War, resulting in one of the Entente Allies' most successful breakthrough operations against the Central Powers. The attack was launched in Galicia, present-day western Ukraine, in the area of Lviv, Kovel, and Lutsk and was to provide a master class in warfighting at the Army Group and Front level, which would be copied by commanders during the First World War and later when Blitzkrieg was in its development.
Between the 8-11 December 1950, the 1st Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles was in a blocking position astride the main road at Onjong-Ni, which was near the west coast of Korea and just north of the 38th parallel. Whilst there, the Assistant Adjutant, Lieutenant Ted Pigot, discovered a large steel safe in a deserted Communist headquarters.
The 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment were ready on 18 March 1860 to sail aboard five steamships bound for Hong Kong. The colony was about to become, in the summer of 1860, the base from which an Anglo-French expedition would launch operations to conclude the Second Opium War (1856-1860). The 87th required volunteers from other regiments to make up the numbers required to reach a strength of one thousand and sixty-six officers and men.
(Below right, the 2nd Battalion the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the Anzio beachhead receive a rum ration to celebrate St Patrick's Day 1944 (© Copyright IWM 13057).)
UDR Officer Cadets attend the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst for the first time.
*The exact date of this event is not known although it is known to have occurred in March 1973
The Williamite War In Ireland, the War of the Two Kings.
