Irelands troops on the front line

national | miscellaneous | news report

Tuesday March 18, 2003 16:28

by Robby - RN

AROUND 1,000 of the 40,000 British service personnel in Kuwait are from regiments that have direct links to Northern Ireland.

More than half of the 650-strong first battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment, which is part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, come from the province.

Around 80 of the battalion's soldiers are from the Republic.

The brigade also contains around 80 Royal Irish Rangers (Territorial Army) volunteers from Northern Ireland.

And approximately 300 troops from the Irish Guards are serving with part of 7 Armoured Brigade.

Both brigades come within 1 (UK) Armoured Division.

An unknown number of Ulster folk are serving with other branches of the armed forces, including the RAF, the Royal Navy, the Parachute Regiment and the Royal Marines.

Comments (3 of 3)

Don't spam the newswire

by Ray

Tue Mar 18, 2003 17:43

That's three articles, one after the other, on roughly the same subject. Next time, put them together into a single article.

Shame

by Des

Wed Mar 19, 2003 00:17

Being in the service of British Imperialism, preparing to engage in a war to gain control of Iraqi oil, an aggressive war that will cost tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives, is nothing to be proud of. What part of the island these "soldiers" come from is irrelevant.

I hope they come back in body bags

by Pat C

Wed Mar 19, 2003 17:32