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RANGERS personnel deployed to Operation HERRICK 5, Afghanistan from 1 Nov 06 - 30 Apr 07.
The Royal Irish Rangers (RANGERS) was retitled as the 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment (2 R IRISH); RANGERS was the last battalion to carry forward the antecedent title of The Royal Irish Rangers. 'Ranger' was therefore lost from the regimental title of The Royal Irish Regiment but was retained as the appointment to describe the private soldier, and thus the name lives on as it is the distinction given to every soldier who passes out of infantry training and joins the battalion as a Ranger.
The Royal Irish Regiment's Territorial Army battalion, RANGERS, was placed on the Operational Commitment Plot in support of 1 R IRISH in their air assault role.
The Royal Irish Rangers, our Regiment’s Reserve Forces battalion, mobilised personnel for deployment and attachment to the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment, deployed on Peace Support Operations as the Divisional Rear Operations Battle Group, and The East of England Regiment in Iraq for Operation TELIC 8. The 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment had deployed to Iraq as part of Op Telic 8 and formed Basra City South Battlegroup.
The Berlin Wall had fallen in 1989 and during its 28 years had divided the City. Some 5,000 people managed to cross the wall into the West although around 171 were killed attempting to do so. With the demise of the communist (East) German Democratic Republic, Germany was reunified into a single nation on 3 October 1990 with Berlin becoming the capital of the enlarged Federal Republic of Germany.
In 1837, armed rebellions against British colonial rule broke out in both Lower and Upper Canada and the lawlessness continued into March 1838. Following the action by the 83rd at Fighting Island in Upper Canada there was a further invasion when a group of 500 mixed Canadian rebels and American 'Patriots' crossed the border and raided Pelee Island on Lake Erie. They imprisoned the inhabitants and confiscated their property.
By the morning of 23 January 1943, the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Fusiliers (1st Faughs) had relieved the 6th Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on Grandstand Hill, a long and exposed feature east of the Bou-Arada - Goubellat road. So far, during the advance on Tunis, they had experienced limited action. Brigadier Nelson Russell, then Commander of 38 (Irish) Infantry Brigade, was to write later of the 1st Faughs:
Regimental Headquarters of The Ulster Defence Regiment formed in Thiepval Barracks, Lisburn and recruiting for the UDR commenced.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, the Inniskillings acquired at least two pet animals originating from service in India, both of whom met rather sad endings.
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The 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskillings) 83rd and 87th) deployed to Northern Ireland in September 1988 on Operation BANNER, the Ranger’s first operational tour of Northern Ireland. The battalion was spread over nineteen locations in Counties Armagh, Fermanagh and Tyrone. As it entered 1989, the Regimental Tercentenary year, elements of 1 R IRISH were deployed in much the same area around Enniskillen where their forebear, Tiffin’s Regiment of Foot, was raised in 1689.
