Colours presented to two Home Service Battalions.

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Sat, 06/17/2000

Duke of York Persentation of Colours 3 R IRISH

The Colonel-in-Chief, HRH The Duke of York, presents Colours to 3 R IRISH.

On Saturday 17 June 2000, the Colonel in Chief, HRH The Duke of York, presented a Stand of Colours to the 3rd (County Down) Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment at St Patrick's Barracks, Ballymena. He then moved to St Lucia Barracks in Omagh and presented a Stand of Colours to the 4th (County Fermanagh and County Tyrone) Battalion. Both Battalions had paraded their Ulster Defence Regiment Colours for the last time before receiving their new Colours

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