… to the web site of the LONDON IRISH RIFLES ASSOCIATION.
We recently had an enjoyable AGM/Annual Lunch at the Civil Service Club as we came together again to meet our friends and former comrades.
Over the coming months, we shall also be marking the 80th anniversary of the London Irish Rifles’ outstanding contribution to total victory in North Africa in May 1943, then playing a leading role in the liberation of Sicily during July/August 1943 before progressing northwards along the west and east coasts of the Italian peninsula; by the end of 1943, the 1st Battalion had advanced from Naples to Monte Camino and the 2nd Battalion from Taranto to the Moro river. The agonies of 1944 at Anzio and Cassino and all points northwards lay just ahead.
Keep in close contact with us, whether it by regularly visiting this website or joining the Regimental Association and coming along to one of our parade days.
Lt Colonel Ant Maher VR
Chairman of the London Irish Rifles Association.
QUIS SEPARABIT
eMail: webmaster@londonirishrifles.
twitter: @LIRAssn
Upcoming Parade Dates:
Sunday 11th June 2023 – Combined Irish Regiments Association.
Sunday 24th September 2023 – Loos Sunday.
Please make sure you have provided an up to date postal address to our Membership Secretary:
membershipsec@ londonirishrifles.com
THE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION
Join the Regimental Association
Objectives:
To foster friendship and fellowship among all past and present members and associate members.
To afford financial assistance to past members of The Regiment and their dependents.
To administer and accept responsibility for The Band.
To administer and accept responsibility for the Regimental Museum.
To encourage all members to attend organised functions of the the Association and of the Regiment.
See photographs from recent Association events
WELFARE
The Welfare Officer is contactable directly by eMail: welfareofficer@londonirishrifles.com.
On 1st May 2022, the London Regiment formally became 1st Battalion, London Guards and D (London Irish Rifles) Company now forms No 15 (Loos) Company, Irish Guards.