Early Day Motion·EDM 217
BATTLE OF WATERLOO
30 June 201512 Signatures
Primary sponsor
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
Motion Text
That this House remembers the Battle of Waterloo two centuries ago this month; honours the 27th Inniskilling Fusiliers who were the antecedents of today's Royal Irish Regiment and who fought so bravely to defeat Napoleon at Waterloo; pays homage in particular to the Duke of Wellington, a native of Ireland as it was then; and reaffirms its pledge never to forget those who fell so gallantly for freedom and democracy and who paved the way for the UK's tremendous armed forces of today.