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

Pte L. Colin. Houston Age 30 (full Time) Training Camp.
20th January 1984. Shot dead in Dunmurry, Belfast. By INLA gunmen who called at the door of his home. He was shot at close range he struggled back into his living room and died a few minutes later in his wife’s arms. He was married and off duty at the time of his death.