The Royal Irish Regiment, until 1881 the 18th Regiment of Foot, was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, first raised in 1684. Also known...
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Royal Irish Regiment may be either of two British Army regiments: Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922), also known as the 18th Regiment of Foot Royal Irish...
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Riverside International Raceway Royal Irish Regiment, either: Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) Royal Irish Regiment (1992) Real Illusions: Reflections...
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Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
Crimean war and the Indian Mutiny, and later exchanged into the 18th Royal Irish Regiment in 1866, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. He inherited...
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Irish Regiment (1684–1922) was formerly the 18th Regiment of Foot American Civil War regiments Confederate (Southern) Army regiments 18th Regiment Alabama...
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Hugh Shaw (British Army officer) (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
1870. Shaw was 25 years old, and a captain in the 18th Regiment (later The Royal Irish Regiment), during the New Zealand Wars on 24 January 1865 when the...
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Frederick George Room (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) soldiers)
years old, and an acting lance-corporal in the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed...
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Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
(5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician....
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Conrad O'Brien-ffrench (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
the Tipperary Rangers of the Royal Irish Regiment and 16th The Queen's Lancers in World War I, and Mountie for the Royal North-West Mounted Police. He...
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Edmund Fowler (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) soldiers)
H. (1986). "A register of awards to Irish-born officers and men". The Irish Sword. XVI (64): 185–287. Ireland's VCs (Dept of Economic Development, 1995)...
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Martin Doyle (VC) (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) soldiers)
initially joined the Royal Irish Regiment in 1909 being given the Service Number 9962.[citation needed] He was transferred to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in...
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Edward Bellew (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
(1897–1900), from where he was admitted to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the Royal Irish Regiment in 1901. He emigrated to Canada in 1903...
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Thomas Esmonde (VC) (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
1855. Esmonde was a 26 years old captain in the 18th Regiment of Foot (later The Royal Irish Regiment) in the British Army during the siege of Sebastopol...
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Charles Irwin (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) soldiers)
H. (1986). "A register of awards to Irish-born officers and men". The Irish Sword. XVI (64): 185–287. Ireland's VCs ISBN 1-899243-00-3 (Dept of Economic...
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Edward Hand (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
Surgeon's Mate in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot. On 20 May 1767, he sailed with the regiment from Cobh, Cork, Ireland, arriving at Philadelphia...
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Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) Connaught Rangers Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Royal Munster Fusiliers Royal Dublin Fusiliers...
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William Sorell (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
Amiens, Sorell was captain in the 18th or Royal Irish Regiment, and in 1804 was promoted major to the 43rd regiment. In 1807 he was made deputy-adjutant-general...
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John Barry (VC) (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) soldiers)
Barry was 27 years old, and a private in the 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment, British Army during the Second Boer War when the following deed...
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Robert Honyman (British Army officer) (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
Colonel Robert Honyman (c. 1781 – 20 November 1808) was a British Army officer from Orkney, Scotland, who briefly held office as the Member of Parliament...
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David Douglas Wemyss (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
Major general David Douglas Wemyss (1760–1839) was a British Army officer. Born Douglas, he changed his name to Wemyss circa 1790. He was the seventh General...
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Kenneth J. Alford (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) soldiers)
Namur, the name of a battle honour of the Royal Irish Regiment (Richards was from the Royal Irish Regiment), published in 1908. Graduating in 1906, so...
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represented Mid Tipperary from 1890 to 1892. He later served as a Royal Irish Regiment officer with the New British Army in World War I, was an extensive...
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Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
returning to England in 1860, Havelock joined his regiment, now the 18th Foot (Royal Irish Regiment), at Shorncliffe. He became deputy assistant adjutant-general...
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John Condon (British Army soldier) (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) soldiers)
Pte. John Condon (5 October 1897 – 24 May 1915) was an Irish soldier born in Waterford. He was mistakenly believed to have been the youngest Allied soldier...
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Beauchamp Doran (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
lieutenant into the 16th Regiment of Foot in January 1880, before transferring to the 18th Foot (shortly to become the Royal Irish Regiment) later that month...
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John Forster (British Army officer) (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
Army officer. Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Forster was commissioned into the Royal Irish Regiment on 23 November 1872. After seeing...
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William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
Grenadiers'. In September 1695, he was commissioned as an ensign in The Royal Regiment of Foot, then placed on half-pay after the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick. When...
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Charles Staveley (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
academy, Edinburgh. He was commissioned as second lieutenant in the 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) on 6 March 1835. He became a lieutenant on 4 October 1839...
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Frederic Manning (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
further training and posted to Ireland in May 1917 with a commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment. The life of an officer did not...
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Gideon Gorrequer (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
St. Helena in the Phaeton on 14 April 1816. He was made a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian and Guelphic Order for his services. For many years Gorrequer's...
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