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The Rifles are There: 1st and 2nd Battalions, The Royal Ulster Rifles in the Second World War. Pen & Sword. ISBN 1-84415-349-5. Taylor, James W. (2002). The 1st Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. Four Courts Press. ISBN 1-85182-702-1. Taylor, James W. (2005). The 2nd Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. Four Courts Press. ISBN 1-85182-952-0.
The 36th (Ulster) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of Lord Kitchener's New Army, formed in September 1914.Originally called the Ulster Division, it was made up of mainly members of the Ulster Volunteers, who formed thirteen additional battalions for three existing regiments: the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
10th Bn, (South Belfast), Royal Irish Rifles: 12th Bn, (Central Antrim), Royal Irish Rifles: 11th Bn, (Donegal and Fermanagh), Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 15th Bn, (North Belfast), Royal Irish Rifles: 13th Bn, (1st Co. Down), Royal Irish Rifles: 14th Bn, (Young Citizens Volunteers), Royal Irish Rifles Pioneers: 16th Bn, (2nd Co. Down), Royal ...
The King's County Royal Rifle Militia was an Irish Militia regiment in King's County (now County Offaly) [1] dating back to 1776. It later became a battalion of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians). It saw action during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Second Boer War, and trained thousands of reinforcements during World ...
In early 1918, on re-organisation, 107 Brigade consisted of the 1st and 2nd (Regular) and the 15th (Service) Battalions of the Royal Irish Rifles. In March 1918 the 36th Division, in the St Quentin Sector, was part of the Fifth Army and it was upon this Army that the main weight of the German spring offensive fell.
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2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (left to join the 74th Brigade a week after the brigade joined the division) 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment (joined October 1917, left June 1918) 7th Machine Gun Company (joined January 1916, moved into 25 MG battalion March 1918) 7th Trench Mortar Battery (formed July 1916)
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")