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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 ...
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.
Buttons from the tunics of the Royal Irish Artillery have been found in Somerville, Massachusetts and upon the site of Fort George at Castin, Maine. The design of the button can still be seen on the shield at the centre of the 206 (Ulster) Battery , which is part of 105 Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers), a Territorial Army (reserve ...
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 ...
Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) 9th (Service) County Armagh September 1914 Armagh, Monaghan and Cavan Volunteers of the Ulster Volunteer Force: 108th Brigade, 36th (Ulster) Division [67] [100] 10th (Reserve) Lurgan, September 1915 Depot companies of 9th Battalion 15th (Ulster) Reserve Brigade [100] Connaught Rangers
22nd Entrenching Battalion 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 ...
This is a list of British Army cavalry and infantry regiments that were created by Childers reforms in 1881, a continuation of the Cardwell reforms.It also indicates the cavalry amalgamations that would take place forty years later as part of the Government cuts of the early 1920s.
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.