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The 56th Reserve Infantry Battalion (56 Res Inf Bn, or 56 Bn) was an Irish infantry battalion of the Reserve Defence Forces.
56 Bn, also known as the Midland Battalion,[1] was created by the amalgamation on 1 October 2005 of the old 16th Battalion, 17 Bn and parts of 19 Bn of the Irish Army's second-line reserve, the Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil (FCA), into a reorganised Army Reserve.
56 Bn was abolished in a further 2012 reorganisation of the Defence Forces.
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edit- ^ "Athlone Army Reservists excel in platoon assessment exercise", Westmeath Independent, 5 December 2008