Timeline of Ulster Defence Regiment Operations - 1988

1988

• 2 UDR's Glenanne Company receive information that a bank robbery has been committed by the son of one of their own senior NCO's. The man is arrested by the UDR in a local hotel and handed over to the police. Four search teams from the battalion were deployed in a follow-up the next day which lasted for five days. A substantial haul of Loyalist weapons was found including; grenades, magazines, ammunition, a rocket launcher and rockets, seven rifles, two shotguns, three handguns, ammunition, radios and military clothing including maroon berets of the type worn by the Ulster Resistance movement.
• December - Voluntary callout implemented in 1/9, 3, 7/10 and 11 UDR to maintain guards on army married quarters which had come under Provisional IRA bomb attack.