The Leitrim Militia, later the Leitrim Rifles, was an Irish Militia regiment raised in County Leitrim in 1793. It saw action during the Irish Rebellion...
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at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Leitrim was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 5th (Militia) Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)...
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– Leitrim Rifles at Carrick-on-Shannon 9th Battalion – Westmeath Rifles at Mullingar Formally, the regiment became the 6th (Royal Longford Militia) Battalion...
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Battalion – Leitrim Rifles at Carrick-on-Shannon 9th Battalion – Westmeath Rifles at Mullingar Formally, the regiment became the 9th (Westmeath Militia) Battalion...
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George Forbes, 7th Earl of Granard (category Lord-lieutenants of Leitrim)
000 acres in Longford, Leitrim and Wexford. Granard was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel commandant of the Westmeath Rifle Militia on 26 December 1855. He...
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the numbered regiments of foot and county militia regiments. In addition, the various corps of county rifle volunteers were to be designated as volunteer...
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Department of Militia and Defence, and split into the Permanent and Non-Permanent Active Militias—frequently shortened to simply The Militia. By 1923, the...
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The Hertfordshire Militia was an auxiliary military force in Hertfordshire in South East England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1558...
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was finally compelled to raise militia and volunteer forces (the Bermuda Militia Artillery and the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps) by Act in the 1890s (the...
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James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn (category Donegal Militia officers)
of Wales's Own Donegal Militia, and on 18 February 1860, was commissioned as a Captain in the newly raised London Scottish Rifle Volunteers. On 6 July...
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Provisional IRA "unit" on the loose in woodland in the South of County Leitrim that had been holding hostage for ransom a kidnapped businessman, the ARW...
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August 25, 1941) Royal Winnipeg Rifles (July 1940 – August 1941) The Regina Rifle Regiment (September 1940 – August 25, 1941) 12th Field Regiment, RCA (January...
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ISBN 9781785372452. Hopper, Tristin (17 August 2018). "Why the 114-year-old Lee-Enfield rifle is only now being retired by the Canadian Armed Forces | National Post"...
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rifle in County Cork and a civilian girl is killed in Kildare by bomb she found in an outhouse. The Free State barracks in Drumshambo, County Leitrim...
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the remaining Ulster counties (Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan), one from Leitrim, and 19 others. There are other committees of the Grand Lodge, including...
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Department of Militia and Defence took over administration of the facility from the British Army in 1906. Used almost exclusively as a militia facility from...
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across the country to recruit from many Militia – including Clare, Kilkenny, Sligo, South Cork, Louth, Kerry, Leitrim, City of Limerick, Londonderry – men...
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