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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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    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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  • also known as "Campbell's Regiment" 88th Regiment of Foot (1779) (raised 1779) 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) (raised 1793) This disambiguation...
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  • in 1860 Connaught Rangers, a Regiment of the British Army, disbanded 1922 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers), line infantry regiment of the army...
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    served until 1881 when it amalgamated with the 88th Regiment of Foot to form the Connaught Rangers. The regiment was raised, from officers who had previously...
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    Gordon Drummond (category Canadian Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    was appointed colonel of the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) on 3 November 1819, transferring to the 71st Regiment of Foot on 16 January 1824....
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    Quis separabit? (category Connaught Rangers)
    regiment of the Rangers, the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) which was founded in 1793. It was also the motto of the Ulster Defence Regiment and...
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    Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot 89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot Connaught Rangers 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) 94th Regiment of Foot Princess...
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  • of battalions of the Connaught Rangers, which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1922. When the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught...
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    Foot from 1807 to 1819, the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) from 1819 to 1823 and the 16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment from 1823 until his death....
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  • of the composer - Lt. Charles Martin of the 88th Connaught Rangers (The Devil's Own). He composed new lyrics, in 6/8 time, celebrating his Regiment's...
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    Down) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1813-14. 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1804-1817 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)...
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  • Connaught Rangers) at an early age, and served through the Crimean war and the Indian Mutiny, and later exchanged into the 18th Royal Irish Regiment in...
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  • January 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2023. "88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) 1793-1881 Locations". Land Forces of Britain, the Empire, and Commonwealth...
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    Hans Moore (category 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) officers)
    Commonwealth forces. He was 43 years old, and a major in the 88th Regiment (later The Connaught Rangers), British Army during the Ninth Cape Frontier War when...
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    district in the United Kingdom, the 87th was linked with the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) and assigned to district no. 68 at Renmore Barracks in...
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    Renmore Barracks (category Barracks in the Republic of Ireland)
    Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot and the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers). Following the Childers Reforms, the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) and...
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  • Garryowen (air) (category London Regiment (1908–1938))
    responded with the "Garryowen." It was used as a march by the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) during the Peninsular War. Garryowen was also a favourite...
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    John Alexander Wallace (British Army officer) (category 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) officers)
    lieutenant-colonelcy in the 11th Foot on 28 August 1804. At the end of 1805, he was transferred to the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) to command a newly...
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    used them. The 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) famously captured one at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812. It became an object of pride and veneration...
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    This is a list of numbered regiments of foot of the British Army from the mid-18th century until 1881, when numbering was abandoned. Foot was the contemporary...
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    of Foot, later renamed the Connaught Rangers, in 1793. Having commanded this regiment, he became Colonel of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot (1794–1808)...
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    B. T. Finniss (category 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) officers)
    Sandhurst, placing first of sixteen candidates at the entrance examination. In 1825, he became an ensign in the 88th Regiment of Foot, was promoted lieutenant...
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    John Reid (British Army officer) (category 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) officers)
    October 1793, and on 27 November 1794 he was made colonel of the 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers). In the previous July he had written to Lord Amherst, the...
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    Thomas Egerton Hale (category 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) officers)
    was 22 years old, and an assistant surgeon in the 1st Battalion, 7th Regiment of Foot (later The Royal Fusiliers), British Army at Sebastopol in the Crimean...
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    Andrew Hay (British Army officer) (category 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) officers)
    the 88th Foot as captain on 24 January 1783 but when the regiment was disbanded after the war, Hay returned to the 1st Foot, maintaining the rank of captain...
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    East Yorkshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1685 as Sir William Clifton's Regiment of Foot and later renamed...
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    of Bath. In 1751, it was numbered like most other Army regiments and named the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot. After the Childers Reforms of 1881...
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    Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) (14th Foot) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. In 1958 it amalgamated with the East Yorkshire Regiment (15th...
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    Devil's Own – 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) later 1st Battalion The Connaught Rangers The Devil's Own – Inns of Court Regiment (so named by...
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