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First UDR recruits	First World War Trench Dagger	Formation of 38 (Irish) Infantry Brigade	Formation of the Inniskilling Regiment of Foot.	Formation of The Royal Irish Regiment
Foundering of the Charlotte	Francis Ledwidge, Poet.	Freedom of the City of Belfast for The Royal Ulster Rifles	French Colonels' Cup	From India to St. Eloi on the Western Front.
Gallipoli to Salonika, 10th (Irish) Division	Garigliano River Diorama	General Sir James S Steele GCB KBE DSO MC LL.D	Geoffrey Cather VC	George Boots and Spurs
German Compensation	German POWs near War's End.	Germans attack at Anzio.	Germans capture Crete	Germans surrender to Montgomery, NW Germany.
Germany enters Rhineland	Goatherds with Guns.	Goodbye My Faithful Friend	Granting the Battle Honour 'TALAVERA'	Greenfinches join the UDR.

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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