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A Call to Arms	A Cross Belt	A Drummer's Badge circa 1793	A German aerial dart	A Memory of The Somme
A rainbow of medal ribbons	A Regiment Remembers	A Rifleman's poem - Neuve Chapelle.	A Royal Memento of the Delhi Durbar	A Seal of Approval
A snuff box	A Souvenir of War	A Souvenir of Ypres	A Teddy Bear Friend	A Tot of Rum
A Trio of cap badges	Action at Tell 'Asur, Judean Hills, Palestine.	Advance from the Seine to Antwerp	Aid to the Civil Power, 108th Regiment to Preston.	Allied invasion of Italy - Operations BAYTOWN, AVALANCHE and SLAPSTICK.
Allies invade Sicily	An abdicated King and the Sword of Honour	An Irish Musket	Anglo-American War, 1812-1815	Antrim Militia

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)

Museums

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

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