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The Royal Ulster Constabulary Service Medal was a medal created to honour the service of members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the RUC Reserve. Established in 1982 and first awarded in 1985, the medal ceased to be awarded when the RUC was replaced by the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
PSNI FC was founded in 1928 as RUC, derived from Royal Ulster Constabulary and changed its name in 2002, following the police service's name change to the PSNI. The club joined the Northern Amateur Football League in 1956 and became one of its leading clubs before being elevated to the Irish League B Division in 1975. The club stayed at this ...
The Award stated: For the past 30 years, the Royal Ulster Constabulary has been the bulwark against, and the main target of, a sustained and brutal terrorism campaign. The Force has suffered heavily in protecting both sides of the community from danger – 302 officers have been killed in the line of duty and thousands more injured, many seriously.
Since its inception in 1940, the GC has been awarded 416 times: 401 to men, 12 to women, and three times collectively, to the Island of Malta, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the National Health Service (NHS). There have been 165 original awards including those to Malta, the RUC and the NHS, including 106 made before 1947. [22]
Robert Norman Espie, Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Patricia Margaret Evans. For services to the Sidcup Social Club for the Blind, Kent. Kenneth Ralph Exworth, Constable, Metropolitan Police. Stanley Eyre. For services to the Gwent County, Royal British Legion. Marion Susan Parish, Local Officer II, Department of Social Security.
Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary: Together with Woman Sergeant Maud Musselwhite (who was awarded the British Empire Medal), working the dock area of Derry for likely targets by terrorists, located three male persons. Forsythe followed and detained the men and extinguished a lit fuse attached to gelignite. An explosion occurred soon after ...
On 4 November 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary was reorganised and renamed as the Police Service of Northern Ireland with most former RUC officers remaining in the new organisation . [ 125 ] On 5 July 2021, on the 73rd anniversary of the NHS, and during the global COVID-19 pandemic , the Queen awarded the George Cross to the National Health ...
The Cavehill Road, north Belfast where Nesbitt grew up. Nesbitt was born in 1934 [5] in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of James, an electrician, and Ellen.He was brought up in the Church of Ireland religion and lived with his parents and elder sister, Maureen in a terraced house in Cavehill Road, North Belfast which was considered to have been a middle-class area at the time. [5]