31st Reserve Field Artillery Regiment (Ireland)
The 31 Reserve Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery unit of the Southern Brigade Irish Reserve Defence Forces tasked with the defence of part of County Tipperary and also with providing support to the 1st FAR, a unit of the regular Irish Army.
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