Editing Ulster Defence Regiment (section)

===The UDR Memorial, Lisburn===
A memorial to the UDR was erected in Lisburn, to "recognise the self sacrifice of the soldiers, both men and women, from all traditions of the UK".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lisburntoday.co.uk/news/Lisburn-Site-Approved-For-Northern.3763707.jp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130730103953/http://www.lisburntoday.co.uk/news/Lisburn-Site-Approved-For-Northern.3763707.jp |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 July 2013 |title=Lisburn Site Approved For Northern Ireland UDR Memorial |work=Ulster Star |date=11 February 2008 |access-date=25 January 2011 }}</ref>
The Memorial is "a 19-foot 'heroic scale' bronze sculpture" featuring "bronze figures of a male UDR soldier and a female 'Greenfinch' on operational duty...set upon an equally impressive Mourne granite plinth.".<ref>[http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/fitting_tribute_to_udr_heroes_unveiled_1_2768467 ‘Fitting tribute’ to UDR heroes unveiled] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907124244/http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/fitting_tribute_to_udr_heroes_unveiled_1_2768467 |date=7 September 2011 }}. News Letter, 13 June 2011. Retrieved 11 February 2012.</ref>

[[Lisburn City Council]] leased the site to the UDR Memorial Trust at Market Square, Lisburn. Under the terms of the lease, the UDR Memorial Trust are permitted to use this for the erection of a memorial. The planning, erection and maintenance of the memorial is the responsibility of the UDR Memorial Trust.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/lisburn_city_council_counterpart#incoming-150341|title=Lisburn City Council – Counterpart lease to UDR Memorial Trust – a Freedom of Information request to Lisburn City Council|date=22 January 2011}}</ref>

The UDR Memorial is in addition to the UDR Roll of Honour situated beside Lisburn War Memorial, Castle Street, Lisburn that commemorates UDR personnel from the Lisburn area who died in the conflict.

The memorial group of statues was unveiled on 12 June 2011 by [[Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough|Viscount Brookeborough]], one of the trustees of the UDR Memorial Trust. At the ceremony, Trust chairman Wesley Duncan said, "It was unfortunate that there were members who did bad things and we're not trying to hide that. But what we would say is that there's almost 50,000 people who didn't do bad things – who did good things, who were ordinary decent people who wanted to do the best they could for their country."<ref>[http://www.u.tv/News/UDR-memorial-unveiled-in-Lisburn/4dfd9ec8-3497-44ac-84c2-b25c21edc7c4 UDR memorial unveiled in Lisburn], UTV, 12 June 2011. Retrieved 11 February 2012.</ref>