Military Resettlement, Business, Training & Recruitment
Crowds of thousands in Shrewsbury yesterday gave a warm welcome to soldiers from 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment, recently returned from a six-month tour in Afghanistan.
Ex-Manchester City footballer Lee Crooks has made a dramatic transfer from the football pitch to face the front line of operations in Afghanistan as he joins the elite team of the RAF Regiment.
It is with regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Ranger David Dalzell, of 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment, was killed on 4th February 2011 as a result of an operational accident while working in Check Point RANGER in Nad-e Ali, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
An area of Helmand, once known as a hotbed of insurgent activity, has adopted a very different air – with its community now coming together through the medium of cricket, aided and encouraged by soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment.
130 personnel from 1 Squadron RAF Regiment, based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, have been given a rousing welcome home from their six-month deployment to Afghanistan by the townspeople of Bury St Edmunds.