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Kidney Hill, Gallipoli.	Korea is divided	Korean War Memorial	Lance Corporal Edward (Dutchy) Pearce	Landmine Attack on 6 UDR
Last Colours for the 86th Regiment	Leap Year Day in the Trenches	Letter Home from Billets	Letter of Service to Major John Doyle (87th Regiment of Foot)	Liberating the Mess Silver
Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins' Eve-of-Battle Speech	Lieutenant General Sir James Steele Addresses the 2nd Inniskillings	Lieutenant Jacob Brunt, Adjutant, 83rd Regiment of Foot - Jamaica, Maroon War, 1795.	Logan Scott-Bowden CBE DSO MC*, Major General	London Irish - 'Summer Holiday' in Italy
London Irish Rifles at War's end.	London Irish Rifles into Anzio.	London Irish Rifles is formed	London Irish Rifles return to the front at Anzio.	Louth Militia
Lt Shipp commends the Irish soldier.	Major A J Dyball MC	Major call out of UDR.	Major Charles Sweeny MC	Major General Sir Hugh Gough visits the 87th, Mauritius.

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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