In April 1914, the UVF smuggled 25,000 rifles into Ulster from Imperial Germany. The Home Rule Crisis was interrupted by the First World War. Much of the UVF enlisted with the British Army's …

In 1913 they organised themselves into the Ulster Volunteer Force to give armed resistance to the prospective Third Home Rule Act (enacted in 1914). Many Ulster Protestants feared being …

There were also fears of a German naval raid on Ulster and so the UVF was recast as a home defence force. World War I ended in November 1918. On 1 May 1919, the UVF was …

The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Formed in 1965, [7] it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a …

In World War I, Carson encouraged the UVF to enlist in the British Army, a process facilitated by the War Office’s decision to create the 36th (Ulster) Division specifically for its members. The...

2013年7月30日 · We are lead to believe that Patrick was a member of the UVF prior to WW1 and were hoping there there might be a location that UVF records for that time and area might be …

2012年7月1日 · On 3 September 1914, just short of a month after Britain had declared war and after much discussion regarding what amounted to a political ‘truce’ with regard to domestic …

2011年6月30日 · Hi, the badge you refer to is an Ulster Volunteer Force pre war lapel badge not a 36th Ulster Division WW1 badge. The C stands for Belfast and the S for south, so it is a south …

2025年2月20日 · Read contemporary newspaper reports here on the UVF’s preparation for WW1 in 1914 and how Lisburn was the guinea pig in a billeting exercise of a pretend Belgian town in …

Initially, the UVF hospital treated injured soldiers who had fought on the French and Belgian fronts, followed by the injured from other fronts and theatres of war such as Gallipoli, Salonica …