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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 ...
Leicestershire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot; The Royal Irish Regiment. 18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot; Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) 19th (The 1st Yorkshire North Riding - Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot; Lancashire 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 ...
87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot 1827–1881 [146] 1793 Raised 1793. [16] 1881: 1st Battalion, The Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Royal Irish Regiment: 88: 88th (Highland Volunteers) Regiment of Foot 1760–1763 [147] 1760 Raised 1760, also known as Campbell's Highlanders. Disbanded 1763 [147] 88th 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 1st Battalion moved to Malta in 1889 while the 2nd Battalion went to India in 1892; the 1st Battalion moved to Pembroke Dock in December 1893 where almost all the regiment's artifacts, plate and silver were lost in a large fire in 1895. [2] The 1st Battalion was dispatched to South Africa in November 1899 for the Second Boer War: it was ...
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 Rifles is an infantry regiment of the British Army.Formed in 2007, it consists of four Regular battalions and three Reserve battalions. Each Regular battalion was formerly an individual battalion of one of the two large regiments of the Light Division (with the exception of the 1st Battalion, which is an amalgamation of two individual regiments).