Ulster Defence Regiment Television recruiting advert for the Ulster Defence Regiment. It was the men and women of the UDR and RUC we have to thank for peace in Northern Ireland, we must remember that our peace and freedom was paid for by the sacrifice of hundreds of lives, we must never let that fact be forgotten. | British & Commonwealth Forces

TELL MY FATHER Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy The bands of Defence Force Ireland and the Royal Irish Regiment, conducted by Richard Douglas. Today marked the centenary of the Ulster Tower, Northern Ireland’s national war memorial. It is located in the Somme, France, along the former German front line, where thousands of young men were killed in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. To this day bodies are still being recovered in the surrounding fields. For the first time in history, the bands of the

24 Hours Ulster Defence Regiment 1971... Barrie Penrose reports that the Ulster Defence Regiment is to be doubled in size from 5,000 to 10,000 men. The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) was an infantry regiment of the British Army established in 1970, with a comparatively short existence ending in 1992. Raised through public appeal, newspaper and television advertisements, their official role was the "defence of life or property in Northern Ireland against armed attack or sabotage" but unlike troops