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The 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles was serving in Aden when the First World War broke out in August 1914. [1] The Ottoman Empire had not yet entered the war so the battalion was sent to England in September, where it prepared for a deployment to France, attached to the 25th Infantry Brigade, 8th Division.
The Royal Irish Rifles (became the Royal Ulster Rifles from 1 January 1921) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army, first created in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot and the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot.
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.
The 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers lost 14 of their 23 officers 311 out of a total of 480 in other ranks. There was also Irish participation in 1st Royal Irish Rifles, 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Royal Irish Regiment, in four battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers. The ...
The Irish Giants – The Royal Irish Rifles [1] [3] The Irish Lancers – 5th Royal Irish Lancers [ 54 ] The Isle of Wight Gurkhas – Princess Beatrice 's Isle of Wight rifles , 8th Battalion Hampshire Regiment (due to the reputed small stature of its members and similarities in drill and uniform to Gurkha regiments.)
A church service at the 10th (Irish) Division's Basingstoke camp, 1915. The division comprised the following brigades: [5] 29th Brigade. 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment (left June 1915 to become the divisional pioneer battalion) [6] 6th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (disbanded May 1918) 5th (Service) Battalion, Connaught Rangers ...
Formed from the 11/13th Royal Irish Rifles. [17] 23rd Entrenching Battalion Formed from the 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles and 11th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. [42] 24th Entrenching Battalion Formed from the 2/5th (T.F.) Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, [43] the 2/4th and 2/6th (T.F.) Battalions Gloucestershire Regiment. [44]
The 16th (Irish) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, raised for service during World War I.The division was a voluntary 'Service' formation of Lord Kitchener's New Armies, created in Ireland from the 'National Volunteers', [1] initially in September 1914, after the outbreak of the Great War.