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Men of the 16th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, the pioneer battalion of the 36th (Ulster) Division, moving to the frontline 20 November 1917. The 6th (Service) Battalion landed at Anzac Cove as part of the 29th Brigade in the 10th (Irish) Division in August 1915 but moved to Salonika in October 1915 and to Egypt for service in ...
The Royal Irish Rifles had nine battalions raised in a similar fashion from the Ulster Volunteer Force. ... Bantam battalion [39] [96] 15th (Service) 1st Glasgow
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 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.)
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.
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 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 ...
The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers – 2nd Battalion; The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) – 3rd Battalion; The Lancashire Fusiliers – 4th Battalion [note 28] The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th) – formed 1 July 1968 from: The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers – 1st Battalion [note 29] The Royal Ulster Rifles ...