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==Commanders of the UDR== (Also known by the title "Brigadier UDR") * Brigadier [[Logan Scott-Bowden]] [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] [[Military Cross|MC]] and [[medal bar|Bar]]; [[Royal Engineers]]<ref name="British Army Officers 1939-1945"/> (first Commander UDR) * (1970β1971) * Brigadier [[Denis Ormerod]] CBE [[Royal Irish Fusiliers]], (First Roman Catholic Commander UDR) (1971β1973) * Brigadier [[Harry Baxter (Soldier)|Harry Baxter]] CBE [[George Medal|GM]] (First Irish Commander, also 2nd Colonel Commandant) [[Punjab Regiment (Pakistan)|Punjab Regiment]]/[[Royal Irish Fusiliers]]<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1511630.ece | archive-url=https://archive.today/20070317055540/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1511630.ece | url-status=dead | archive-date=17 March 2007 | work=The Times | location=London | title=Brigadier Harry Baxter | date=14 March 2007 | access-date=26 May 2010}}</ref> (1973β1976) * Brigadier [[Mervyn McCord]] CBE, MC, ADC (1976β1978) [[Royal Ulster Rifles]], [[Royal Irish Rangers]]. * Brigadier David Millar [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Border Regiment]] (joint author of "The Way ahead" [[Ulsterisation]] document) (1978β1980) * Brigadier Patrick Hargrave (1980β1982) [[Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment]] * Lieutenant General [[Peter Graham (British Army officer)|Sir Peter Graham]] (1982β1984) [[Gordon Highlanders]] * Brigadier Roger St Clair Preston (1984β1986) [[The Light Infantry]] * Brigadier Michael Bray CBE (author of the Bray Reforms) [[Duke of Wellington's Regiment]] (1986β1988) * Brigadier Charles Ritchie CBE [[Royal Scots]] (1988β1990) * Brigadier [[Angus Ramsay]] CBE, DSO [[Royal Highland Fusiliers]] (1990β1992) ===Colonels Commandant=== [[File:General Sir Charles Huxtable KCB CBE DL (RLH).JPG|thumb|right|upright|General Sir Charles Huxtable KCB CBE DL]] * General Sir [[John Anderson (British Army officer)|John Anderson]] [[Order of the Bath|GCB]], [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] DSO (1969β1977) ([[5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards]]) (1st Colonel Commandant).<ref name="autogenerated1969"/><ref>{{hansard|1971/apr/29/ulster-defence-regiment|house=written|access-date=29 April 2020}}</ref> * Brigadier [[Harry Baxter]] CBE GM (1977β1986).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/47346/supplements/12788|title=London Gazette}}</ref> * General Sir [[David Young (British Army officer)|David Young]] (1986β1991) [[Royal Scots]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/50485/supplements/5183|title=London Gazette}}</ref> * General Sir [[Charles Huxtable (British Army officer)|Charles Huxtable]] (1991β1992) [[Duke of Wellington's Regiment]]. Huxtable continued as Colonel Commandant of the Royal Irish Regiment until 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/52623/supplements/11975 |title=Viewing Page 11975 of Issue 52623 |publisher=London-gazette.co.uk |date=5 August 1991 |access-date=25 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/52983/supplements/11412 |title=Viewing Page 11412 of Issue 52983 |publisher=London-gazette.co.uk |date=6 July 1992 |access-date=25 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=54453|page=8914|date=2 July 1996}}</ref> ===Regimental Colonel=== Colonel Sir Dennis Faulkner CBE VRD UD [[Royal Naval Reserve]]/3 UDR (1982β1992) ===Notable personnel=== * [[:Category:Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers]] * [[:Category:Ulster Defence Regiment officers]]
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