Ulster Defence Regiment

This page is dedicated to those who paid the ultimate price in the name of their
country during the bloodiest thirty-odd years of domestic British history.

The UDR Soldier

As poppy petal gently fall
Remember us who gave our all
Not in the mud of foreign lands
Nor buried in the desert sands.

In Ulster field and farm and town,
Fermanagh's lanes and drumlin'd Down
We died that violent death should cease
And Ulstermen might live in peace.

We did not serve because we hate
Nor bitterness our hearts dictate.

But we were they who must aspire
To quench the flame of terror's fire.

Grieve not for us, but this we ask,
Let others yet take up the task.

© John Potter

Dedicated to those killed in Road Traffic Accidents
while serving with the Ulster Defence Regiment

I would just like to thank you on behalf of our family, for getting our fathers name on the national memorial, and with regards to the Palace Barracks Memorial Garden website.

The details about his death, as much as I have ever been told are that the car accident happened due to ice on the road while returning home from Ladas Drive Barracks Intelligence Centre, Castlereagh, Belfast. my father and his friend, also UDR (I think his name was Spence) both died, and Mrs Spence and my mother were injured and in hospital for quite a while.

His grave stone at Roselawn Cemetery.

William Martin