10th Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment

10th (City of Belfast) Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment
Regimental Insignia
Active	1972–1984
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry battalion
Role	Internal Security
Size	750
Motto(s)	"Quis Separabit" (Latin) "Who Shall Separate Us?"
March	(Quick) Garryowen & Sprig of Shillelagh. (Slow) Oft in the Stilly Night
Commanders
Colonel Commandant	First: General Sir John Anderson GBE, KCB, DSO. Last: General Sir Charles Huxtable, KCB, CBE, DL
Colonel of the Regiment	Colonel Sir Dennis Faulkner CBE

Uniform, armament & equipment

See: Ulster Defence Regiment Uniform, armament & equipment

Greenfinches

Notable personnel

Category:Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers
Category:Ulster Defence Regiment officers

Gerry Adams wounded

When Gerry Adams (the Sinn Féin president) was wounded in an assassination attempt by three members of the UFF it was an off duty full-time Non-commissioned officer of 10 UDR ^[2] who gave chase to their car and arrested them, assisted by an off duty policeman.^[3] This is not noted in Adams' Sinn Féin biography^[4] and the BBC still insists the assailants were arrested by "plain clothes policemen".^[5] The UDR NCO received the Queen's Gallantry Medal for arresting the gunmen. In the long term however the soldier was intimidated out of his home and the UDR as a direct result of these arrests.^[6]

Investigations

A 1977 Army investigation involving D Company, 10 UDR, based at Girdwood Barracks in Belfast revealed that about 70 of the company's soldiers were suspected of links to the UVF, but evidence was only found against two, who were dismissed on security grounds. 30 soldiers from D Company were suspected of fraudulently diverting £47,000 to the UVF; and that UVF members socialized at Girdwood Barracks junior ranks mess. This investigation was halted after a senior UDR officer claimed it was harming morale.^[7]

Bibliography

A Testimony to Courage – the Regimental History of the Ulster Defence Regiment 1969 – 1992, John Potter, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2001, ISBN 0-85052-819-4
The Ulster Defence Regiment: An Instrument of Peace?, Chris Ryder 1991 ISBN 0-413-64800-1
Lost Lives, David McKittrick, Mainstream, 2004, ISBN 184018504X

The Troubles

Ireland

Great Britain

Elsewhere

The Troubles

Participants

Republican paramilitaries	Provisional IRA (timeline) Official IRA Irish National Liberation Army (timeline) Continuity IRA (timeline) Real IRA (timeline) IPLO

Security forces	United Kingdom British Army Royal Air Force Royal Navy Northern Ireland Ulster Defence Regiment/Royal Irish Regiment Royal Ulster Constabulary/Ulster Special Constabulary Republic of Ireland Garda Síochána Irish Army

Loyalist paramilitaries	Ulster Defence Association (timeline) Ulster Volunteer Force (timeline) Loyalist Volunteer Force Red Hand Commando Ulster Resistance Linked to: Some RUC and British Army members

Political parties

Unionist	Ulster Unionist Party Democratic Unionist Party Progressive Unionist Party UK Unionist Party Traditional Unionist Voice Ulster Vanguard Ulster Democratic Party

Nationalist	Social Democratic & Labour Party Sinn Féin Irish Republican Socialist Party Workers' Party of Ireland Republican Sinn Féin Irish Independence Party

Other	Alliance Party

Chronology

Northern Ireland civil rights movement begins (1967)
August riots and beginning of Operation Banner (1969)
Falls Curfew (1970)
Internment without trial begins with Operation Demetrius (1971)
Irish government enacts broadcasting restrictions (1971)
Bloody Sunday by British Army (1972)
Northern Ireland government dissolved; direct rule from London begins (1972)
Bloody Friday by IRA (1972)
Operation Motorman ends no-go areas (1972)
Sunningdale Agreement establishes power-sharing Assembly (1973)
Ulster Workers' Council strike brings down Agreement and power-sharing (1974)
Dublin and Monaghan bombings by UVF (1974)
Guildford and Birmingham pub bombings by IRA (1974)
Kingsmill massacre by IRA (1976)
Warrenpoint ambush by IRA (1979)
1981 Irish hunger strike; hunger striker Bobby Sands elected MP; Sinn Féin begins to move towards electoral politics (1981)

Brighton hotel bombing by IRA (1984)
Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985)
Loughgall ambush by British Army (1987)
Remembrance Day bombing by IRA (1987)
Peace Process begins (1988)
Operation Flavius, Milltown Cemetery attack and Corporals killings (1988)
British government introduces broadcasting restrictions (1988)
Attack on Derryard checkpoint by Provisional IRA (1989)
Baltic Exchange bombing (1992)
Bishopsgate bombing (1993)
Downing Street Declaration (1993)
First IRA and loyalist ceasefires (1994)
Docklands and Manchester bombings by IRA (1996)
Dumcree riots (1997)
Second IRA ceasefire (1997)
Good Friday Agreement (1998) signals the end of the Troubles
Omagh bombing by the Real IRA (1998)

Other issues and topics

Segregation Peace lines/Interface areas Parades Flags Collusion The Disappeared Shoot-to-kill policy Diplock courts Special Category Status Five techniques Punishment shootings Murals The Troubles in popular culture List of books about the Troubles

References

↑ "The Ulster Defence Regiment". British Army. Retrieved 2009-04-25.
↑ Ryder p197
↑ Potter p267
↑ "Profile of Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams". Sinnfein.org. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
↑ "BBC ON THIS DAY | 14 | 1984: Sinn Féin leader shot in street attack". BBC News. 1991-03-14. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
↑ Potter p268
↑ http://www.thedetail.tv/issues/20/udr-girdwood-story/british-army-covered-up-udr-units-links-to-uvf "British army 'covered up' UDR units links to UVF"

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