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New Stands of Colours were presented to the 1st Battalion and the 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment by the Colonel in Chief, HRH Prince Andrew, Duke of York, at the Titanic Slipways in Belfast on Saturday 22 September 2018.
The Deputy Colonel of the Regiment, Brigadier M B Murdoch, as parade commander, ordered a Royal Salute to greet The Colonel in Chief, who was accompanied by the Colonel of the Regiment, Brigadier (Retired) J S S O'Sullivan.
HRH The Duke of Gloucester, Colonel-in-Chief, presented the 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers with new Colours at a parade held in Templer Barracks, Kahawa outside Nairobi, Kenya on 20 February 1962.
The Colonel-in-Chief of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers presents the new Regimental Colour to Lieutenant P V Kendal-Jones having previously presented the new Queen's Colour to Lieutenant D J C Stewart (right).
Private Bailey was a prisoner of war, with the alias 'Sergeant Daniel Beverley', who had joined the German 'Irish Brigade', sailed from Germany aboard a U-Boat and assisted Sir Roger Casement to row ashore and land at Banna Strand, Tralee on 21 April 1916. Bailey and Casement were apprehended and subsequently appeared in London at the Old Bailey court on charges of high treason.
During early April 1915, the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Fusiliers was in the Ypres Salient. At 1700 hours on 12 April, shortly before the Faughs were due to be relieved, a particularly heavy enemy artillery barrage pounded the trench line into a churning mass of earth with dead and dying men; many were blown to pieces, many were buried alive.
214654 W/Captain (T/Major) Patrick Joseph Proctor RUR, from Rathmullan, County Donegal, whilst serving with the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Fusiliers, in 38 (Irish) Infantry Brigade, was recommended for an award for his actions at Termoli, Italy, on 6 October 1943. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC). The Recommendation (AF W2131) stated:
At Termoli on October 6th, 1943, Major Proctor was in
command of “A” Company partaking in a Battalion attack
with a squadron of tanks on enemy positions on the
high ground NORTH of S GIACOMO and along the road
Corran William Brooke Purdon was born in Queenstown, (now Cobh) County Cork on 4 May 1921. He was educated at Campbell College, Belfast, and the Royal Military College Sandhurst that had in effect, with the approach of war, become an Officer Cadet Training Unit, with the six-month course concentrating on training Cadet Purdon to be an infantry platoon commander.
Following the move of the 89th by train from Shorncliffe to Aldershot in the spring of 1866, Queen Victoria presented a new stand of Colours to replace those she had presented at Plymouth Hoe on 3 August 1833, when she was the 14-year-old Princess Victoria.
The Home Service battalions of The Royal Irish Regiment were deployed in support of Northern Ireland's police service, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, following serious civil disorder and acts of terrorism across the Province.
A Letter of Association between the Worshipful Company of Broderers and The Royal Irish Regiment was signed by Master Toler of the Worshipful Company and the Colonel of The Royal Irish Regiment, Brigadier JSS O'Sullivan, on 14 April 2014, at a ceremony in the Guards Museum, London.
