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In July 1970, the North Irish Militia Shooting Team won the prestigious China Cup at the Territorial Army Rifle Meeting at Bisley. The Adjutant rashly offered to fill any trophies that the team won at Bisley only to find that the China Cup held 14 gallons of 'congratulatory liquid'.
When Japan surrendered at the end of the Second World War, their occupation of Korea came to an end and the Allied Powers divided Korea along the 38th Parallel. The Korean Peoples' Army (KPA) was established in February 1948 and was raised from the former Korean Communist guerrilla units who had fought the Japanese occupation alongside the Chinese. The North was increasingly influenced by the USSR and the South was supported by the USA.
‘Northern Ireland’ consists of six of the nine counties of the Province of Ulster and remained part of the United Kingdom when the rest of Ireland became independent in 1922. The latter became what was then called the 'Irish Free State', and from 18 April 1949, 'The Republic of Ireland'.
Edith Louisa Cavell, a nurse from England, was tried for 'treason' (aiding British, French and Belgian soldiers to escape across the border to neutral Holland) by the German military government in Belgium. Edith Cavell was sentenced to death. The German government stated:
She was judged justly ...... what would happen to a State, particularly in war, if it left crimes aimed at the safety of its armies to go unpunished because committed by women.
In October 2016, the rules for awarding the Long Service and Good Conduct (LS&GC) Medal to personnel in branches of the military changed to include regular officers.
Enniskillen has a unique accolade in being the only town in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Ireland to give its name to more than one regiment.
Tiffin’s Foot.
The 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Rangers (2 R IRISH), commanded by Lieutenant Colonel F J Allen OBE, deployed to County Fermanagh and County Armagh for 6 months on the battalion's first Operation BANNER tour in Northern Ireland. The main area of operations was along the Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland (ROI) border.
Royal Irish Regiment personnel attached to a training mission in Sierra Leone were taken hostage near the village of Magbeni on 25 August 2000 by a rebel militia group known as the West Side Boys (WSB). Following negotiations with the leader, Foday Kally, five were released but six, along with the team’s Sierra Leonean Army liaison officer (SLA LO), remained as Kally’s prisoners.
From July to September 2014 (the UK summer but Falkland winter) A Company of the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment deployed to the Falkland Islands on Operation FIRIC as the Roulement Infantry Company.
