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D (London Irish Rifles) Company paraded as a company of The London Regiment, though continuing to enjoy affiliation with The Royal Irish Regiment.
D Company, 1 R IRISH, deployed to Northern Ireland on Operation BANNER as part of MLD1.
Daniel Kelleher was born in Rathmore, County Kerry, in 1909, and ordained in the Archdiocese of Liverpool in 1934. He was commissioned as a 'Padre' in the Royal Army Chaplains Department (RAChD) on 26 March 1941 and in August of that year embarked for Egypt with the 1st Armoured Division. He was present during almost every major battle fought by the Eighth Army throughout the North African Desert campaign. After serving with a Beach Group during the invasions of Sicily and Italy, he was posted to 38 (Irish) Brigade in early December 1943.
Danny Deever
‘What are the bugles blowin’ for?' said Files-on-Parade.
‘To turn you out, to turn you out,’ the Colour-Sergeant said.
‘What makes you look so white, so white?’ said Files-on-Parade.
‘I’m dreadin’ what I’ve got to watch,’ the Colour-Sergeant said.
For they’re hangin’ Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play,
The Regiment’s in ’ollow square—they’re hangin’ him to-day;
They’ve taken of his buttons off an’ cut his stripes away,
An’ they're hangin’ Danny Deever in the mornin’.
‘What makes the rear-rank breathe so ’ard?’ said Files-on-Parade.
The 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers had been relieved as the Brigade Reserve and returned to Corps Reserve at the beginning of November. There were many fatigue duties to perform and one of these included half the Battalion at any one time employed on cutting terraces into the cliffs of X Beach. The works would provide winter quarters to accommodate two infantry battalions. There was always the threat of harassing artillery fire made all the more accurate by enemy aircraft overflying such rear areas.
The warring factions in the Bosnian War agreed the Dayton Accords in Dayton, Ohio at a conference (1-21 November 1995) bringing an end to the 3.5 year Bosnian War, one of the Yugoslav Wars of the period 1991-2001. The official signing of the treaty took place in Paris on 14 November 1995 and NATO agreed to provide 60,000 peacekeepers for the region, as part of the Implementation Force (IFOR). The UK’s Operation RESOLUTE was in support of the IFOR operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On 20 September 1761, Lord William Blakeney 'the soldier of the soldiers' died at the age of 89. He had been Colonel of 'His Majesty's Enniskillen Regiment of Foot' for over 24 years. He was buried in Westminster Abbey and was succeeded as Colonel of the Regiment by Lieutenant General Hugh Warburton from the 45th Reiment.
Captain The Right Honourable Sir Norman Stronge Bt PC MC HML, aged 86, was shot and murdered by the Provisional IRA, along with his only son James, in the Gothic library of their home Tynan Abbey on Wednesday 21 January 1981.
Sir Winston Churchill suffered a severe stroke on 15 January and died, aged ninety, nine days later at his London home on the morning of Sunday, 24 January 1965.
