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Effective today, the contact details for the Northern Ireland Veterans' Association have changed to the following

The Secretary
57 Mortimer Street,
Derby.

DE24 8FX

Email: membership@nivets.org.uk
Web: www.nivets.org.uk
Mob: 07368 293729

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Some facts and Figs

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  • Some facts and Figs

    -----------------------------------------------------Average
    .................................................O fficers .ORs .age

    Cavalry Regiments
    The Life Guards................................... .1 .26
    The Blues and Royals...................... 1....6. .24.2
    1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards............1...35
    The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards........... 1...19
    4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards................1 ..24
    5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards......1 25
    16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers..1.....1 21.5
    The 9th/12th Royal Lancers.....................3 26
    The Royal Hussars..................................1 35
    14th/20th King's Hussars...................1....3 30.7
    15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars..........1 22
    17th/21st Lancers ..................................2 28.5
    Royal Armoured Corps.................................3 23.3
    Royal Regiment of Artillery...................3 53 23.4
    Corps of Royal Engineers..............................2 9 28.5
    Royal Corps of Signals................................15 24.1
    Regiments of Foot Guards
    Grenadier Guards...........................2 4 23.1
    Coldstream Guards.........................1 6 23
    Guards............................................ .....14 22.2
    Irish Guards...........................................1 21
    Welsh Guards.........................................3 23.3
    Line Regiments of Infantry
    The Royal Scots......................................4 23.5
    The Queen's Regiment.............................9 22.3
    The King's Own Royal Border Regiment.....5 23.4
    The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers......1 22 25.3
    The King's Regiment 15 21.6
    The Royal Anglian Regiment...........2 16 23.1
    The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment..........6 24.1
    The Light Infantry.................................25 20.7
    The Prince of Wales's Own
    Regiment of Yorkshire...........................2 23.5
    The Green Howards.......................1 8 25.3
    The Royal Highland Fusiliers 5 21.4
    The Cheshire Regiment 9 22.3
    The Royal Welsh Fusiliers 1 5 23
    The Royal Regiment of Wales 7 23.2
    The King's Own Scottish Borderers 5 25.4
    The Gloucestershire Regiment 5 21.2
    The Royal Gloucestershire Berkshire
    & Wiltshire Regiment 1 29
    The Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters 4 23.2
    The Queen's Lancashire Regiment 7 20.8
    The Duke of Wellington's Regiment 1 5 22.3
    The Royal Hampshire Regiment 3 21
    The Staffordshire Regiment 1 3 24.2
    The Black Watch 2 20
    The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment 6 25.3
    Queen's Own Highlanders 1 3 28
    The Gordon Highlanders 5 30.4
    The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 2 4 29.8
    The Parachute Regiment 3 39 23.8
    The Royal Green Jackets 2 30 24.2
    Royal Army Chaplains Department 1 38
    Royal Logistic Corps 1 25
    Royal Corps of Transport 12 23.5
    Royal Army Medical Corps 1 33
    Royal Army Ordnance Corps 6 16 28.9
    Corps of Royal Electrical
    and Mechanical Engineers 7 27
    Corps of Royal Military Police 4 28.7
    Royal Army Pay Corps 1 18
    Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1 34
    Royal Army Dental Corps 1 25
    Royal Pioneer Corps 3 22
    Intelligence Corps 1 27
    Army Physical Training Corps 1 31
    Army Catering Corps 3 19.3
    Women's Royal Army Corps 2 18.5
    Territorial Army 2 7 32.6
    Ulster Defence Regiments (1) 18 180 35.6
    Royal Irish Rangers 1 2 32
    Royal Irish Regiment 7 32.7

    Royal Navy 1 45
    Royal Marines 23 25.2
    Royal Air Force 4 24.2

    Fatal casualties

    murder 157
    booby-trap devices 97
    gun-fire and attack on foot patrol 51
    sniper fire 40
    abduction and murder 19
    ambush of foot patrol 14
    foot patrol under machine-gun fire 7
    attack on a border post 5
    undercover intelligence operations 5
    mortar attack 3
    helicopter under fire 1
    bomb attacks 140
    mobile patrol was shot at 63
    land-mines 49
    sniper engaging a foot patrol 28
    detonation of explosive device 15
    'friendly fire' (includes 2 shot by RUC). 8
    soldiers on guard duty shot by snipers 6
    para-military Loyalist attacks 5
    rocket attack 3
    civilian attack on foot patrol 2
    APC crushed soldier 1

    TOTAL------------------------------------719 Fatal Casualties. [/u]



    Casualties by rank:

    A total of 55 officers were killed: Colonels--2; lieutenant-colonels--3; majors--15; captains--18; chaplain--1 ; lieutenants 7; 2nd lieutenants--9.

    Other ranks killed were: Warrant officers--17; staff sergeants--13; colour sergeants 7; sergeants--52; corporate 93; lance corporals--97; privates--375.

    Approximately 2000 civilians and 296 members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary were killed. There were 7,000 wounded or injured. Five female soldiers were killed (0.6%), two from the Women's Royal Army Corps and three from the Ulster Defence Regiment.

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    We Will Remember Them

    (Official records list 302 RUC GC killed by terrorists and approx 60 more committed suicide, many with police issue firearms. Several family members were also killed in off-duty attacks on officers.)

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    • #3
      We Will Remember you all.
      Geordie.

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      • #4
        We Will Remember Them

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        • #5
          Rest in Peace all of you, we will remember you!

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          • #6
            WE WILL REMEMBER

            bobc........

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