St Patrick's Barracks closes.

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Friday, 1 February, 2008

General Sir Roger Wheeler GCB CBE receives the Royal Ulster Rifles' flag from WO1 (RSM) D Goodall.

During a final ceremony on 31 July 2007, the flag of The Royal Ulster Rifles and the flags of the 2nd, the 3rd, and the 4th Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment, and The Depot The Royal Irish Regiment, were lowered for the last time. St Patrick's was effectively decommissioned when it was closed on 1 February 2008.

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'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. He was facing the right way, the last round of a clip in the breech and three dead Germans in front of him. His name was Duff. After all is over - and the remainder of the Empire is understandably irritated with Ireland - I hope these countless Duffs, from both the North and the South, and in all three services, will be remembered.
(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)

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