RUC Photographs

These cover the whole length of service of the force, from 1922 until 2001.

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B and C Class Special Constabulary

Above and below, Officers and NCOs of the RUC Depot, Newtownards, 6th November 1923. Photo is very damaged so I’ve cropped and tidied as best as possible.

Member of Station Party, RUC Carrickmore, 1952
Members of the RUC Reserve Force, Madden, Co Armagh, latter 1950s
Scout car at Madden HQ
Scout car on Border Patrol – note the Bren Gun
Reserve Force at Ballykinlar, inspection by Sir Richard Pim, Inspector-General, RUC
Inspection, RUC Depot Enniskillen, by the Governor of Northern Ireland
‘Iron Lung’ Command Vehicle, 1959
Prototype Iron Lung with .30 Browning at Musgrave St RUC
And then slowly rotting away
Shorland Armoured vehicle 1965/66
Reserve Force personnel Carrier
RUC Comms Room Belfast 1959
And its replacement in 1975
Fabulous negative glass plate. No provenance.
Shorland APC. Produced in 1975 the vehicle proved too expensive & the RUC adopted the Hostspur instead.
Same vehicle, now 1982, fitted with sidemesh wing screens at Woodburn RUC
Different vehicle showing side screens deployed. Musgrave St RUC
Army/RUC patrol at site of light air crash