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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 former Royal Ulster Rifles soldier from Northern Ireland. The group undertook an armed campaign of almost thirty years during The Troubles.
Ulster Volunteer Force in 1914. The Ulster Volunteers was an Irish unionist, loyalist paramilitary organisation founded in 1912 to block domestic self-government ("Home Rule") for Ireland, which was then part of the United Kingdom. The Ulster Volunteers were based in the northern province of Ulster.
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11 April: Following a week of rioting in Loyalist communities, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), reportedly orders the removal of Catholic families from a housing estate in Carrickfergus. [249] 1 November: a bus was hijacked and burnt by armed men in Abbot Drive in Newtownards, County Down. Police blamed a local faction of the UVF. [250]
The first loyalist paramilitary group to emerge in the period of the Troubles was the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), which first appeared in 1966, led by Gusty Spence.The UVF saw itself as the direct continuation of the Ulster Volunteers of 1913 (which was also called the UVF), formed to resist Irish Home Rule.
The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) was an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was formed by Billy Wright in 1996 when he and his unit split from the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) after breaking its ceasefire. Most of its members came from the UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade, which Wright had commanded.
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The group expanded beyond Belfast into other UVF areas, notably Mid-Ulster where Billy Wright joined the group at around the age of 14. [8] Eddie Kinner , who went to hold leading positions in both the UVF and the Progressive Unionist Party , was also a member and demonstrated his support by sporting the initials YCV on his school bag.