Ulster Defence Regiment

Ulster Defence Regiment

In October 2006 Her Majesty The Queen conferred the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (CGC) for Gallantry to the Royal Irish and Ulster Defence Regiments, the total number of soldiers from both regiments that have been murdered during the Troubles are unknown. Some of them murdered while off duty with a further number after leaving the army.

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

2nd Battalion

3rd Battalion

4th Battalion

5th Battalion

6th Battalion

7th Battalion

8th Battalion

9th Battalion

10th Battalion

11th Battalion

4-6th Battalion

7-10th Battalion

Ulster Defence Regiment Training Camp

1st-9th Battalion

Road Traffic Accidents

Robert (Dinger) Bell