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    The Connaught Rangers ("The Devil's Own") was an Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army formed by the amalgamation of the 88th Regiment of Foot...
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    The 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) was an infantry Regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated...
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  • 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers), line infantry regiment of the army formed in 1793 and disbanded in 1881 Adams' Rangers, a unit in the American...
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    other Irish Regiments and Brigades: as an unofficial march by the Connaught Rangers and Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and at brigade level in World War...
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  • circles by a cousin of the composer - Lt. Charles Martin of the 88th Connaught Rangers (The Devil's Own). He composed new lyrics, in 6/8 time, celebrating...
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    Connacht (redirect from Connaught)
    population Coin of Connaught The Connaught Rangers Duke of Connaught Kings of Connacht Lords of Connaught "Connacht (also Connaught)". foclóir.ie. Foras...
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    enlistment with the Connaught Rangers ("The Devil's Own') of Boyle, Roscommon. A Feely is noted as being involved in the Connaught Rangers Mutiny in India...
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  • Frecheville as Martin Feeney - An Irishman and former Corporal of the Connaught Rangers, who deserts his regiment and returns home. Jim Broadbent as Lord...
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    Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 1850 – 16 January 1942) was the seventh child and third son of Queen...
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    Quis separabit? (category Connaught Rangers)
    was the motto of the precursor regiment of the Rangers, the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) which was founded in 1793. It was also the motto...
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    John Danaher (VC) (category Connaught Rangers soldiers)
    subsequently joined a British Army unit, the Connaught Rangers. He returned to Limerick with the Rangers in 1882, and later achieved the rank of sergeant...
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    the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers). Following the Childers Reforms, the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) and 94th Regiment of Foot...
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    Royal Irish Rifles, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers), Connaught Rangers, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), Royal Dublin...
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    Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (category Connaught Rangers officers)
    General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, GCB, GCH (11 August 1772 – 10 December 1842) was a British Army officer, politician and peer who served in the...
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    March 2014. Sarsfield, W. S. (2013). "Connaught Rangers War Diary: Action at Le Grand Fayt (Connaught Rangers)". 1914–1918 net. Retrieved 8 March 2014...
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    Canadian (Overseas) Infantry Battalion (The Duchess of Connaught's Own Irish-Canadian Rangers), CEF after Harry Trihey, the regiment's principal organizer...
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  • the Connaught Rangers, which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1922. When the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers),...
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    1884–1969) and Charles Joseph O'Sullivan (1880–1974), an officer in the Connaught Rangers who served in World War I. Maureen O'Sullivan returned to Boyle in...
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    89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot Connaught Rangers 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) 94th Regiment of Foot Princess Louise's (Argyll...
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    July 1921. It was in this period that a mutiny broke out among the Connaught Rangers, stationed in India. Two were killed whilst trying to storm an armoury...
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    race in the world. — Michael McDonough, a teenager enlisting in the Connaught Rangers, 1898. During World War I, all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom...
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  • Regiment. The Irish Canadian Rangers perpetuated the indirect service of the 199th Battalion Duchess of Connaught's Own Irish Rangers, CEF. Served as 1914 –...
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    Indian Brigade of the 10th Indian Division, 5th Battalion of the Irish Connaught Rangers (700 men), 10th Hampshires (330 men) and 4th South Wales Borderers...
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    Thomas Hughes (VC) (category Connaught Rangers soldiers)
    1914. He was 31 years old, and a private in the 6th Battalion, The Connaught Rangers, British Army during the First World War when he was awarded the Victoria...
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  • "Garryowen". It was used as a march by the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) during the Peninsular War. Garryowen was also a favourite during...
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    Frank Ifield and Slim Dusty. Suvla is also mentioned in the song "The Connaught Rangers": "At Suvla and at Sud el Bar, we fought your every bloody war..."...
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    Stanley Holloway (category Connaught Rangers officers)
    contract with the troupe. At the age of 25, Holloway enlisted in the Connaught Rangers in which he was commissioned as a subaltern in December 1915 because...
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    Irish regiments for the Crown Force – including for such units as the Connaught Rangers. Several more Irish-labelled units were created in the 19th century...
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    Michael John O'Leary (category Connaught Rangers officers)
    being advanced to a commissioned rank as a second lieutenant with the Connaught Rangers, and he was also presented with a Russian decoration, the Cross of...
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  • (suspended animation 1968; disbanded 1987) – 65th, 84th Regts of Foot The Connaught Rangers (disbanded 1922) – 88th, 94th Regts of Foot The Prince of Wales's...
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