Irish in the British Armed Forces March and are presented with shamrocks. The Royal Irish and the Irish Guards have an Irish Wolfhound as their military mascot, named "Brian Boru IX" and "Domhnall," respectively. Irish in the British Armed Forces The Irish in the British Armed Forces refers to the history of Irish people serving in the British Armed Forces (including the British Army, the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force and other elements). Ireland was then as part of the United Kingdom from 1800-1922 and during this time in particular many Irishmen fought in the British Army. Different social classes joined the military for various
Banknotes of the British Armed Forces for use in the Afghanistan theatre only and are rarely seen these days as all the Post Exchanges around the KIA area accept US dollars in payment, the NAAFIs in theatre will not even accept GBP. These tokens are not yet listed in Krause Publications' Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. Banknotes of the British Armed Forces The British Armed Forces issued their own banknotes between 1946 and 1972. Since 2003, they have issued their own small change tokens nicknamed pogs by the Squaddies, after the children's game popular in the early 1990s. At the end of the war in