UNITED IRISH

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21603, 4 January 1945, Page 2

UNITED IRISH

ROYAL ULSTER RIFLES NORTH .AND SOUTH MEN SYDNEY. Dec. 28. Out in the fog-shrouded peatbogs beside the River Meuse, the pipes of the Roval Ulster Rifles have been playing Eire's "Soldier's Song'' and sometimes the soft lilt oi " The Owld Orange Flute" would come floating through, reports Douglas Wilkie. Sydney Sun war correspondent with the British Second Army. You might have expected an Irish brawl in a good Irish setting had you not known it all came from the Royal Ulster Rifles—one of the most remarkable bunches of. tough Irishmen in the world. A man who joins the Ulsters may come from Limerick or Larne. He may wear emerald or orange. He can hold any opinion hr 1 likes as long as it includes hating the Nazis. The colonel of the regiment, who comes from Tipperary, will tell you so. It makes for good comradeship, as the regimental chaplain. Father O'Brien, of County Mayo, is pleased to expound in a brogue as broad as a bulldozer. The boys of the Ulster Rifles have been "Lord Haw Haw's" despair ever since they stopped the German advance at Louvain < Belgium I for three days in 10-10. The Ulsters were the second last in contact with the Germans at Dunkirk. They landed at. Margate carrying till their arms, and marched ashore in cuick step. They returned to France on D-day and led the assault on Caen. It was the Ulsters who built the assault bridge across the Escault Canal (Holland) for General Horroek's men to make the clash up the Eindhoven Corridor. The Ulsters gave the Germans the parting kick across the muddy Meuse