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Inniskillings land at Cherbourg, France.	Inniskillings land at Gallipoli	Inniskillings march from Ghent to Waterloo	Inniskillings perish as the Charlotte founders.	Inniskillings reach Salerno
Inniskillings recalled urgently to Tientsin	Inniskillings receive Freedom of Nairobi	Inniskillings to Internal Security, Lahore (India)	Inniskillings to Vereeniging.	Irish Brigade attack Maletto and advance to Randazzo, Sicily.
Irish Brigade fighting on the Senio River	Irish Brigade's Papal Audience	Irish Civil War	Jam Tins for Germans.	James Byrne VC
James Herbert Samuel Majury CB, Major General	James II defeated by William III, Ireland.	James Pearson VC	James Samuel Emerson VC	Jersey’s allegiance to an Irish Regiment
John Coldwell-Horsfall DSO MC	John Potter MBE	John Sherwood Kelly VC CMG DSO	Kenya, a Colonial War	Keys to Colditz Castle

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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- Inniskillings Museum
- Royal Ulster Rifles Museum
- Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum
- Royal Irish Regiment Museum

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