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Please see two job opportunities currently available with the UDR Benevolent Fund:
UDR Benevolent Fund Secretary
Location: Currently Palace Barracks, but could be elsewhere
Status: 3 days per week but see below for flexibility
Salary: In the region of £37,500 per annum for a 3 day week
Deadline: Friday 5 September 2025
Contact: Application forms may be obtained at udrbenfund@outlook.com or alternatively by phoning 0772 067 7838.
Please full job description below.
UDR Benevolent Fund Outreach Coordinator
Location: Currently Palace Barracks, but could be elsewhere
The Ulster Defence Regiment is placed on selective call out in response to heightened IRA activity.
The 3rd and the 11th Battalions of The Ulster Defence Regiment were placed on selective call out for four days when ten textile workers travelling in a minibus were shot and murdered near the County Armagh town of Kingsmills.
Three battalions of The Ulster Defence Regiment - 2 UDR, 3 UDR and 9 UDR - were deployed to the Newry area in support of operations connected with a protest march organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). The 100,000 strong march came one week after fourteen people had been shot and killed by the Army during protests in Londonderry; a notorious event that came to be known as 'Bloody Sunday'.
The UDR Province Reserve (PRUDR) is established to enable part time companies to be deployed outside their normal area of operations in response to terrorist activity.
*The exact date of this event is not known although it is known to have occurred in December 1975.
The Ulster Defence Regiment was issued with the Federal Riot Gun (FRG).* The FRG had been issued to and was carried by the Regular Army and offered a non-lethal option for a graduated response in the management of violent attacks.
Gun Riot 1.5" L67A1 © IWM (FIR 10769)
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The Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance for the 22 years of service by the Ulster Defence Regiment from 1970 - 1992, was led by The Most Reverend Dr Robin Eames, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, on Sunday 31 May 1992 at 1530 hours.
Dr Eames reminded all that since the formation of the UDR on 1 April 1970, in excess of 40,000 had served in the Regiment.
Terrorism claimed 197 lives and seriously wounded 444 men and women of The Ulster Defence Regiment.
As the public order and security situation in Northern Ireland deteriorated, the General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland took the decision to order the first call-out of the entire Regiment to assist the Regular Army; some 80% of the regimental strength turned out for the duration of the emergency. The Ulster Defence Regiment was, in 1970, still a part-time force.
In the UDR's first major operation, the 2nd and 6th Battalion The Ulster Defence Regiment deployed 400 soldiers on an 8 (Infantry) Brigade operation along the border with the Republic of Ireland in Counties Armagh, Tyrone and Fermanagh. 
The mission was to intercept the movement of terrorist munitions into Northern Ireland. The operation included some 1,600 Regular Army personnel and it was the first large-scale border operation carried out by the Army.
A terrorist attack on a patrol of the 5th Battalion The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) at Kilrea injured two soldiers. These were the first terrorist inflicted casualties suffered by the UDR
