A detachment from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Rangers marched past the President of France, General de Gaulle, to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

In May 1969, two weeks after he resigned as President, de Gaulle and his wife landed at Cork and travelled to Sneem in County Kerry where they spent six weeks on a ‘quiet holiday’. Eighteen months after returning to France, General Charles de Gaulle died on 9 November 1970.