[1] Battalion headquarters, HQ Company and one other were based at Steeple Camp, Antrim, a remnant of World War II beside the railway station.

Liddle has seen wartime service with the Royal Ulster Rifles and had attended Army Staff College.

This was a zone in the commercial heart of Belfast where 41 streets had been sealed off with barbed wire entanglements and steel fences to prevent explosives being brought in.

Accommodation was found for them in the former Grand Central Hotel in Royal Avenue which was being used as an army base for the city centre.

[3] See: Ulster Defence Regiment Uniform, armament & equipment Lance Corporal L. Colin Houston, aged 30, was killed at his home in Dunmurry by gunmen from the Irish National Liberation Army on 20 January 1984.