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11/04/2011
RIR March Home To Shropshire
There's been a homecoming parade for the 1st Battalion, the Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) in Market Drayton today as around 300 of the NI-linked soldiers marked the Shropshire-based battalion's return from its latest six-month tour of Afghanistan.
There was sadness as well as relief though, as three soldiers from the battalion were killed in the tour, which began in September. Ranger Aaron McCormick, 22, from Macosquin in Co Londonderry was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) in November last year.
Ranger David Dalzell, 20, from Bangor was fatally shot in February and Lance Corporal Stephen McKee, 27, from Banbridge, was killed by an IED in March. Similar parades are being planned for various towns in NI later.
(BmcC)
There was sadness as well as relief though, as three soldiers from the battalion were killed in the tour, which began in September. Ranger Aaron McCormick, 22, from Macosquin in Co Londonderry was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) in November last year.
Ranger David Dalzell, 20, from Bangor was fatally shot in February and Lance Corporal Stephen McKee, 27, from Banbridge, was killed by an IED in March. Similar parades are being planned for various towns in NI later.
(BmcC)
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