The next Association Parade takes place at the Cenotaph on Sunday 13 June 2027. If you have ever served with an Irish Regiment, please join us on that day.
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Great day… and thanks for @PaulClark_UTV and team over to record the parade… very moving indeed.
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A reminder of our Annual Parade on Sunday 14 June. Step off from King Charles Street at 1030am. Weather is set fair….
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5 Dec 2025
It was 166 years ago today that the Marquess of Donegall taught the band to play…they’ve been going in and out of style…
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11 Nov 2025
Remembering the London Irish Rifles’ fallen from two World Wars.
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10 Nov 2025
A few observation clips from yesterday’s parade at the RBL National Parade.
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9 Nov 2025
30 London Irish Riflemen on parade today.
9 Nov 2025
Honoured to carry a wreath for the @LIRAssn today at the Cenotaph… my Mum and Dad, Ted and Pat, as well Eddie, Charles, Ron and Alf in my thoughts…
Quis Separabit
Faugh a Ballagh
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27 Oct 2025
28 October 1943, Brigadier Nelson Russell at the Trigno river:
"I went to San Giacomo to talk to the chaps. They seemed to feel 'Everybody buys it once & often twice, so it must have been our turn but – wasn’t it a pity about the wee Colonel. We’ll have to square all that.'.."
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27 Oct 2025
27 October 1943, 38 (Irish) Brigade at the Trigno river:
"Beauchamp Butler, forward as usual encouraging his chaps, was killed by an MG bullet.
A somewhat similar fate had befallen the London Irish. Kevin O’Connor was killed by a shell & they had lost two Company Commanders."
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27 Oct 2025
27 October 1943, 38 (Irish) Brigade at the Trigno river:
"An unlucky mortar bomb killed Paddy Proctor & all his Platoon Commanders as they were planning to attack the final ridge. Dennis Dunn, commanding the other leading Coy, was killed by a shell."
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27 Oct 2025
27 October 1943, 38 (Irish) Brigade at the Trigno river south of San Salvo:
"The Brigade was ordered to take San Salvo by night attack on 27th/28th October.
But things were fated to go badly...."
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To support our Annual Parade at the Cenotaph, which takes place in June each year, do consider becoming a Member of the Combined Irish Regiments' Association.
ciroca.org.uk/home/membershi…
Our next parade steps off from King Charles Street at 1030am on Sunday 14 June 2026.
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6 Oct 2025
Termoli, 6 October 1943:
"The Irish Brigade had distinguished itself in this very difficult operation. Their reputation, carried forward from Tunisia & Sicily, grew in stature until, as one historian commented that ‘they became the finest fighting brigade in the British Army’..."
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6 Oct 2025
Termoli, 6 October 1943:
"The battle, & the danger from 16th Panzer, was over. Much credit was given to the Canadian tankies whose motto, recalled Major Bala Bredin, second-in-command of the Faughs, was ‘Have a Go, Joe’..."
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6 Oct 2025
Termoli, 6 October 1943:
"The attack was launched at 1130 with the Faughs on the right flank & Inniskillings on the left. Opposition was tough. The London Irish had been stepped up between the coast & the road & moved to take the cemetery & a small hill a mile outside Termoli."
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6 Oct 2025
Termoli, 5/6 October 1943:
"With 16th Panzer still bearing down on 78th Division’s positions, the arrival of the Irish Brigade, & armour, was critical. By 0245 on 6 Oct, the flotilla of 7 vessels carrying the brigade landed, having come under shellfire on the way into the port."
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6 Oct 2025
Termoli, 5/6 October 1943:
"....'A pleasant peacetime cruise.’ as described at 13 Corps HQ. Brigadier Nelson Russell was assured that his brigade was unlikely to be fighting ‘for a fortnight or so’. As Nelson later commented wryly, ‘this did not go according to plan.'...."
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5 Oct 2025
5 October 1943, 1 RIrF on their way to Termoli: Lt Col Beauchamp Butler and Major Brian Clark.
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27 Sep 2025
Ecoivres Military Cemetery… to pay our respects to the 31 London Irish Riflemen buried here… QS
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27 Sep 2025
Ecoivres, Dud Corner, Philosophe and Arras CWGC cemeteries today… around 20% of our lads from the First World War are buried or in Memorial at these locations. QS.
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