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{{See also|List of battalions and locations of the Ulster Defence Regiment}}
{{Infobox military unit
|unit_name= 1st Battalion
|image= Ulster Defence Regiment Crest.png
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|dates= 1970–1992
|country={{flag|United Kingdom}}
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|garrison_label=Regimental Headquarters
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|motto= ''"[[Quis Separabit]]"'' ({{small|Latin}})<br>''"Who Shall Separate Us?"''
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|commander1_label= Colonel Commandant
|commander2=Colonel Sir [[Dennis Faulkner]] CBE
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The battalion responded to a general call-out in August 1971 to support regular troops during the first [[Operation Demetrius|internment]] sweep of [[the Troubles]]. In total, the entire regiment managed to provide 3,100 men during the call-out.<ref>Ryder p44</ref>
During the 1974 [[Ulster Workers' Council strike]], the regiment was placed on general call-out. Forty drivers from 1 UDR, 9 UDR and [[10th Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment|10 UDR]] were drafted into Belfast to assist the [[Royal Corps of Transport]].<ref name="P 131">Potter p131</ref> Over nine days, they logged up {{convert|15,000
===Early operations===
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===Intelligence===
Intelligence gathering within 1 UDR was good. The local community responded well and in particular, Catholics were keen to warn individual soldiers of threats to their lives or to phone information through to the barracks advising of potential "happenings" in the battalion area.<ref>Gamble 2009, p134</ref>
==Structure==
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B Company was formed in March 1970 in the former [[North Irish Horse]] barracks at John Street, Ballymoney.<ref name="Gamble 130">Gamble 2009, p130</ref> The first [[Officer Commanding]] (OC) was Major John Munnis, formerly the sub-district commander of the [[Ulster Special Constabulary]] (USC). Major Munnis was killed in a traffic accident in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nivetsannex.com/ROH/certs/M0833.pdf |title=M0833.pdf |access-date=2013-07-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031354/http://www.nivetsannex.com/ROH/certs/M0833.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=September 2019}} The [[Company sergeant major]] was [[Warrant Officer (United Kingdom)#British Army|WO2]] Willy Mooney who had been a [[Sergeant|sergeant instructor]] with the same USC unit.
Soldiers in B Company were mostly drawn from the towns and villages of North Antrim such as: Ballymoney, [[Ballycastle, County Antrim|Ballycastle]], [[Bushmills]] and [[Dervock]].<ref name="Gamble 130" /> There was a high number of recruits who had been USC men (B Specials) who joined from these areas too, as well as from the village of [[Stranocum]], although incidences of men joining in other groups such as from the same
Entire families joined together and this created problems in dividing them up on patrol. There was a fear that two or more members of the same family could be killed or wounded if they were together in the same vehicle which was under attack.<ref name="Gamble 131" />
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==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}
[[Category:Infantry regiments of the British Army]]
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