6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). See map below for Battalion deployments and objectives, 'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. 9th Battalion, The Kings, (Liverpool Regiment). 3rd Battalion, King's On Scottish Borderers. Contents 1 1992 creation 2 Current organisation 3 Restructuring 3.1 Current structure 3.1.1 1st Battalion 3.1.2 Northern Ireland Resident Battalions (Home Service) 12th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. May 1916 moved back to Queenstown. 6th Battalion, Queen's Own, (Royal West Kent Regiment). April 17 18 1918 First Battle of Kemmel Ridge. Royal Irish Regiment at Long, Long Trail. He died on the 16/08/1916 in France. 7th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. [31][3], The 1st Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 82nd Brigade in the 27th Division in December 1914 for service on the Western Front but moved to Salonika in November 1915. The Royal Irish Rifles, an amalgamation of the 83rd (County of Dublin) and 86th (Royal County Down) Regiments, absorbed the Royal North Down Rifles, Queen's . History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. [33] The battalion was re-formed in October 1914 and, as part of the 22nd Brigade in the 7th Division saw further action at the Battle of the Somme, when it was involved in capturing three miles of the German frontline trenches, in Autumn 1916. 5th Battalion, The Kings, (Livrpool Regiment). Please note: We are unable to provide individual research. ), 8th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (W.R.R.). Want to know what life was like during the Great War? On 18 May F Sqn arrived from Ireland, replacing B Sqn 1/1st Hertfordshire Yeomanry in XVIII Corps Cavalry Regiment, which thereafter consisted of A, B and F Sqns, known as the 2nd South Irish Horse. July 20th to September 19th Advance to Victory (IX Corps, Second Army). 2nd Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment. During this month the troops were employed in military training and education, and 54,203 attendances were recorded at the divisional educational classes. 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. 7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. August 1914 : in Kilkenny. He was only 18 years old. Want to know what life was like during the Great War? After severe fighting, the attack, which had been favoured by a dense mist, was driven off. 3rd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, Cont. 2nd Lt. 3rd Btn. 20th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. A-K. 12th (Yeomanry) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. The regiment fought for William and his successors in Flanders throughout the 1690s and 1700s. Each formed one of the new unit's two regular battalions. All Rights Reserved. 7th Battalion, The Buffs, (East Kent Regiment). 20th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. [5][6][13][14][15][16] The regiment was initially based at Limerick. 3rd Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. 10th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 10th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. The 6th service battalion had been formed in Dublin in 1914 and by February 1915 was at The Curragh racecourse. In the early part of this campaign it suffered heavy casualties. The regiment was established during the British Army reforms of 1881 by merging two former regiments of the East India Company - the 102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers) and the 103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers) . 7th (South Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. 8th (Reserve) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (W.R.R. The Long, Long Trail has always been free to use but it does cost money to operate. 6th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. This was areward for supporting the Stuarts in Scotland during the British Civil Wars (1639-51) and working for Charles's restoration. They brought considerable combat experience with them and by May 1923 comprised 50 per cent of its 53,000 soldiers and 20 per cent of its officers. 29 bns of three antecedent regiments fight at the Somme with every Irishman a volunteer. Many maps and plans were included in the original diaries but some confidential material was removed before the files were made available. A-G. 10h Battalion, Lincolnshire Regient. 19th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. After South Africa the 1st Battalion spent a period of time in Ireland before travelling to Crete, Malta . From January 1915 they trained at Ballyvonare, absorbing a company of the Royal Jersey Militia on the 5th of March. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 261046 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. A Reserve Regiment was formed at Cahir in 1914 to supply reinforcements to the service squadrons. [15] On 16 December Boer forces crossed the Orange River into Cape Colony in an effort to raise rebellion. 7th (South Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment [ edit] The Trench warfare of the Western Front meant that there was little need for mounted troops. 6th Westmeath Battalion 7th Antrim Regiment 8th Armagh Regiment 9th Down Regiment 10th Leitrim Battalion 11th Galway Regiment 12th Dublin City Regiment 13th Limerick City Battalion . 3rd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). The regiment remained in Britain and Ireland until 1767, when it was deployed to North America. The latter fought in the Boer War (1899-1902), before returning to India in 1904. 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[14][17] The following month he was seconded with the temporary rank of captain in the Army. The diariessometimes contain information about particular people butthey are unit diaries, not personal diaries. September 6th Three stong patrols sent into Ginchy. The transfer of the South Irish Horse to the SR was approved on 20 October 1908. 8th Battalion, The Kings, (Liverpool Regiment). They are not personal diaries (try the Imperial War Museum or local record offices for those). [14][15], The regiment was awarded the following Battle honours:[13]. 18th Battalion, The Kings, (Liverpool Regiment). Following a string of defeats during Black Week in early December 1899, the British government realised that it would need more troops than just the Regular Army to fight the Second Boer War, particularly mounted units. 11th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. F-K. 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. H-L. 7th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. v3.0, France and Flanders: WO 95/1-3154, WO 95/3911-4193 and WO 95/5500, Mesopotamia, Iraq and North Persia: WO 95/4965-5288, East Africa, Cameroon and West Africa: WO 95/5289-5388, Gallipoli and the Dardanelles: WO 95/4263-4359, Australian and New Zealand Expeditionary Force: WO 95/3155-3657, Canadian Expedition Force: WO 95/3715-3910. 30 September 1915 : moved via Mudros to Salonika. Returned to UK and landed at Devonport on 18 November 1914, then came under command of 82nd Brigade, 27th Division. 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. 4th Reserve Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. The badge of the regiment as depicted on a CWGC grave headstone. v3.0, except where otherwise stated, Friends of The National On the 19th and 20th August the Battalion War Diary indicates 2 wounded, and on the 23rd August in the Boeschepe area 4 men killed and 3 wounded. 5th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment. Thismay be divided into several PDF files, which you can save to your computer. The Regiment is one of only two Irish Regiments remaining in the British Army along with the Irish Guards. 6th Battalion, British West Indies Regiment. The 27th (Inniskillings) Regiment holds the centre of Wellington's line at Waterloo. 3rd/4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Instead, the South Irish Horse, together with the North Irish Horse and King Edward's Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment), became part of the Special Reserve (SR), formed from the old Militia. In the 17th century, independent companies of musketeers and pikemen garrisoned Ireland underboth Oliver Cromwell and King Charles II. Moved to England in September 1915, going to Pirbright. The Royal Irish Regiment was disbanded in 1922 on the establishment of the Irish Free State. 17th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. We are now on Facebook. The Wartime Memories Project is a non profit organisation run by volunteers. About June 1915, converted to Pioneer Battalionn of the same division. November/December 1916 awarded the Military Medal but we don't know under what circumstances. 2nd Battalion, Oxford & Buckingham Light Infantry. 10th Battalion, Queen's Own, (Royal West Kent Regiment). He was 21 when he died and is buried in the North-East part of Kilwairra Old Catholic Churchyard, Cooley, Co. Louth, Ireland. This wasmostly stationed in England and Ireland from the 1850s to the 1880s, though it served in New Zealand between 1863 and 1870. L-Z. 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Discovery is a catalogue of archival records across the UK and beyond, from which you can search 32 million records. The Expeditionary Force squadron of North Irish Horse (designated A Squadron), along with its counterpart in the South Irish Horse (designated B Squadron) was assigned to the British Expeditionary Force as 'Army Troops/. [35] Eight of the Royal Irish Regiment were killed and sixteen more wounded. Officers of 3rd Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment with a captured Sinn Fein flag, Easter 1916, Soldiers visit the grave of Irish nationalist MPMajor William Redmond of6th Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment,1917. 8th Battalion, The Queen's, (Royal West Surrey Regiment). July 31st 2nd August Battle of Pilckem Ridge (in reserve, XIX Corps, Fifth Army). 17th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. 6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The South Irish Horse was a Special Reserve cavalry regiment of the British Army. [5] They were reorganised as 7th (South Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, between 1 September and 10 November 1917 at the infantry base depot at taples and joined 49th Brigade of 16th (Irish) Division. [35][39][47][48], The regiment was one of the six southern Irish regiments of the British Army disbanded on 31 July 1922 following the creation of the new Irish Free State. It spent the early 1780s garrisoning the Channel Islands and Gibraltar against Americas French and Spanish allies. 16th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, London, SW3 4HTRegistered Charity Number: 237902, The Prince of Waless Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. This includes cookies that track any click through to affiliate links and advertisers that appear on this site. 1918 The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Rosieres. It was then posted to the West Indies from 1805 until the end of the war in 1814. Captain Robert Parker, The Royal Regiment of Ireland, c1720. W-Z. He died in France on the 13/12/1917. 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Members of the Royal Irish were also the first British Army troops to confront the Irish rebels during the Easter Rising of 1916. For example, to search for a battalion in the Northumberland Fusiliers, you need only search using the word 'Northumberland'. 1st Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company. 22.04.1918 Reduced to training cadre with surplus personnel transferred to the 2nd Royal Irish Regiment. For example, to search for a battalion in the Northumberland Fusiliers, you need only search using the word Northumberland. [14], When the Haldane Reforms were introduced under the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907, most of the Imperial Yeomanry were transferred to the new Territorial Force (TF), but this did not extend to Ireland. Soldiers of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment in camp, Sebastopol, 1856, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan VC, Colonel of the Royal Irish Regiment, 1881. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 298 recorded WW1 deaths for the 7th (South Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. In 1901 the 29th Battalion (Irish Horse) was formed, with 131st134th and 175th176th (Irish Horse) Companies). 29th Infantry Brigade. His name was Duff. Having taken part in the fighting of World War I, it was disbanded after Irish Independence in 1922. 18 April 1918 : reduced to cadre strength; reformed 26 June 1918. Many of the war diarieswere scribbled hastily in pencil and use obscure abbreviations, whilst some are the second carbon copy of the original, so they may be difficult to read. 1st Battalion, The Queen's, (Royal West Surrey Regiment). 4th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources. 14 October 1917 : came under orders of 49th Brigade, 16th (Irish) Division. [14][15][51], The Honorary Colonel of the regiment, appointed on 19 March 1904, was Field Marshal Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn. A-E. 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question. Some evidence that it was at nearby Durrington in October 1918. 9th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's, (W.R.R.). We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. 18th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. This information will help us make improvements to the website. 6th Infantry Labour Company., Devonshire Regiment. 20th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). 1st Battalion, The Kings, (Liverpool Regiment). 14 October 1917 : came under orders of 49th Brigade, 16th (Irish) Division. Private 23724 9th Battalion The Royal Irish Fusiliers. 5th (Pioneers) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment was raised at Clonmel in August 1914 as part of Kitchener's First New Army and joined 29th Brigade, 10th (Irish) Division. A training unit, it moved within a few days of declaration of war to Queenstown. 2nd Battalion in 32nd Division: Objective was Thiepval in Battle of the Somme, France: 5th Battalion in 10th (Irish) Division: Objective was Holding the Line in Battle of the Struma, Salonika: 6th Battalion in 10th (Irish) Division: Objective was Holding the Line in Battle of the Struma, Salonika: 7th Battalion in 16th (Irish) Division 5 March 1915 : absorbed a company of the Royal Jersey Militia. He is buried Arneke British Cemetery in France, Grave Reference III.E.11 next to other 568 identified casualties. It then formedpart of Indias garrison until 1854, when it moved to the Crimean War (1854-56). Formed in France on 1st September 1917 from the dismounted 1st & 2nd South Irish Horse. [19] It took part in the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War; Captain Thomas Esmonde was awarded the Victoria Cross for saving a party of colleagues from a fire of shell and grape. (d.20th Oct 1914) Anderson Arthur. Returned to Ireland September 1915 and moved to Fermoy. [35][45][46], After its casualties, the battalion was reduced to a training cadre on 18 April, and on 17 June it transferred to 102nd Bde of 34th Division. 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. South Irish Horse at Combined Irish Regiments. [29], In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally, with the former becoming the Territorial Force and the latter the Special Reserve;[30] the regiment now had two Reserve but no Territorial battalions. 2nd Garrison Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 1st Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, 7th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. 1st Battalion returned to India in 1857, where it stayed for mostof the following 27 years. 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. 5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 10th (Kent Yeomanry) Battalion, The Buffs, (East Kent Regiment). Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. 26 July 1915 : transferred to 11th Brigade in same Division. [5], As part of the Irish establishment, it escaped disbandment after the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick and when the War of the Spanish Succession began in 1701, returned to Flanders as part of Marlborough's field army. A-C. 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, D-H. 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 1st and 2nd South Irish Horse were amalgamated in August 1917, dismounted, and sent for retraining as infantry. 14 March 1915 : transferred to 12th Brigade, 4th Division. 9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Under the Cardwell reforms of 1881, it was renamed The Royal Irish Regiment and became the county regiment of Kilkenny, Wexford, Waterford and Tipperary. 5th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. The Government of Guernsey publicly thanked both units and awarded them a cash bounty of 100 guineas. When he started his service with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers as a Private his service number was 20815. These were the 3rd Battalion (Special Reserve) and the 4th Battalion (Special Reserve). October 28th it was relieved in the front line and moved back towards the Lys valley between Courtrai and Menin, with headquarters at Belleghem. N-R. 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. You do not need to include the word 'regiment', 'battalion' or 'brigade'. The 7th joined the Royal Tank Regiment and became the 40th (The King's) Royal Tank Regiment, and the 10th became a battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 261046 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. At this time they were part of the 49th Brigade, 16th (Irish) Division. Private 25211 7th Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment. 15th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). (d.11th May 1915) Anderson Philip Maurice Ramsey. The companies that joinedWilliamwere placed on the English establishment in 1689. 8th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. 10th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. [18] to the 37th (Highland Horse) Battalion, a new unit being sent out to South Africa as part of the Third Contingent of the IY. [12], The regiment also saw action at the Battle of Alexandria in March 1801. [33] Disbandment [ edit] Amery, Vol IV, Appendix to Chapters I-XIV, pp. 18 December 1915 : landed at le Havre. 8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. 11th Battalion, King's Own, (Royal Lancaster Regiment). E-G. 7th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 1917 The Battle of Messines, The Battle of Langemark. 5th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment. In 1882,2nd Battalion fought in Egypt, and was joined there by 1st Battalion in 1884. 26-27 March 1918 Battle of Rosieres (XVIII, Fifth Army). 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. August 1914 : in Nasirabad (where it had been stationed since 1912). Landed Suvla Bay 7 August 1915. 6th Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers. 20 June 1918 : transferred to 121st Brigade, 40th Division. November 4th divisional headquarters and 107th and 108th Brigades moved into Mouscron (north-east of Tourcoing). ), 7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (W.R.R. 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George Frederick Stevenson Call CB, 18971918: Major-Gen. Charles Frederick Gregorie, CB, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 01:19. 7th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. After his initial training in 1916, Private John Kelly was posted to the 2nd Battalion which was part of the 48th Brigade, 16th (Irish) Division from 15th November 1916. 4th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry. They will re-structure by May 2023. (The only RIR battalion to serve in Salonika.) Formed in France, 1 September 1917, from the dismounted 1st and 2nd South Irish Horse. The Third United States Infantry first came into being under the Act of March 5, 1792, an act for making farther and more effectual provisions for the protection of the frontiers of the United States, and which, among other things, provided for the raising of three additional regiments of infantry, also for the completion of the battalion of artillery and two regiments of infantry already in . 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 9th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. 21st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. - Royal Irish Regiment Museum. As well as the lion of Nassau emblem, the king granted it the title Royal Regiment of Ireland, the Irish crowned harp and a motto mentioning Namur, 'Virtutis Namurcensis Praemium' ('Reward for Valour at Namur'). October 15th 1917 the 7/RIR was transferred from the 16th division to the 36th division. 4th Battalion, Cameronians, (Scottish Rifles). 3rd Battalion, The Queen's, (Royal West surrey Regiment). 2nd Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company. please Add a Name to this List Formed as an Imperial Yeomanry regiment in 1902 as the South of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry, it perpetuated a unit formed during the Second Boer War. 15 October 1916 : amalgamated with 8th Battalion to form 7/8th Battalion. 1801: 1 April - 7th Battalion formed from the Royal Irish Artillery - 4 companies in West Indies and 2 companies in Ireland retained; other 4 . [11] After this, the unit returned to Gibraltar later in the year, where it remained until the Siege of Toulon in 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars. 8th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment. Due to this, it is possible to confirm that John enlisted in May 1915 at the Hanley Recruiting depot or via a recruiting officer. October 25th 1918 Ooteghem (II Corps, Second Army). The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment) (R IRISH) is an infantry unit of the British Army . They had nothing to do, apart from a small expedition against a native chief, which did not involve the 61st Company. 9th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment. L-Z. Kane, John. 10th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Extra men from Royal Dublin Fusiliers and Royal Munster Fusiliers arrived on the 1st May and 26th June and they were taken into the Battalion in Widdebroucq area, near Aire during July. [5][6][7][8], The 17th Battalion together with the 18th (Sharpshooters) Battalion embarked on the SS Galecka in April and landed at Beira in Portuguese East Africa on 4 May 1900 to join the Rhodesian Field Force (RFF) under Lt-Gen Sir Frederick Carrington. He was born in Belfast Armagh and was 19 years old when he died. 17th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). 1st Battalion,Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). 27th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. [7] The regiment spent most of the next 25 years on garrison duty in Britain and Ireland; in 1751, reforms ended the tradition of naming units after their current colonel and the regiment was officially ranked as the 18th Regiment of Foot. A-K. 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 1st King's. As Britain's control of Ireland eroded in 1920 during the Irish War of Independence, the 1st Battalion deployed to Bantry, County Cork. Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. 13.11.1917 Transferred to the 108th Brigade of the 36th Division absorbing the 7th Battalion at Ypres. 10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. By doing so, you will enable it to remain free to all. (d.8th Jun 1917) Anderson Mervyn Kebble. 8th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). 11th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. September 4th moved forward to Bernafey Wood near Guillemont. In the conflict between Charles successor, James II, and his son-in-law, William of Orange (later William III), the regiment split. Want to find out more about your relative's service? 17.06.1918 Transferred to the 102nd Brigade of the 34th . 6th/7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. 20 December 1914 : landed at Le Havre. (IV Corps, Third Army. 1st Battalion, The Buffs, (East Kent Regiment). This infantry unit has origins dating back to 1688. 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Records of 7th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles from other sources. [2], The regiment was formed in 1684 by the Earl of Granard from independent companies in Ireland. 6th Battalion, The Queen's, (Royal West Surrey Regiment(. 20th Battalion, The Kings, (Liverpool Regiment). Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Records of 7th (South Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment from other sources. Some diaries are available on other websites: Some diaries record little more than daily losses and map references whilst othersare much more descriptive, with daily reports on operations, intelligence summaries and other material.