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(d.1st July 1916), McAuley John. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for WW1 14th Battalion (Young Citizens Volunteers) Royal Irish Rifles Cap Badge Bras at the best online prices at eBay! (d.7th Jun 1917), Mercer Samuel. While 7th Bn The Royal Irish Rifles was the only battalion of our antecedent regiments to serve in either 47th or 48th Brigades, 49th Brigade included two battalions of Inniskillings and two of Faughs (7th and 8th in both cases) and was known unofficially as the Ulster Brigade. August 1914 : at Newtownards. The Irish Military Heritage Foundation CLG, Educated for War The Story of Fingals Hely-Hutchinson Brothers, Braving No-Mans Land Sergeant Robert Quigg V.C, Irish Volunteer, Dublin Fusilier, Patriot Lieutenant Tom Kettle, County Donegal 1914 1918 Part 1 The Homefront and Rebellion, County Donegal in 1914 1918 Part 2: World War I, LAST OUT The Royal Munster Fusiliers on the Italian Front, Annual Somme Commemoration National War Memorial Gardens. August 1914 : in Aden. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources. 3 February 1918 : transferred to 107th Brigade in 36th (Ulster) Division. August 1914 : at Downpatrick. Welcome. Rflmn. Its area consisted of Antrim, Down, Belfast and Louth, with its depot located at the Belfast Infantry Barracks (later renamed Victoria Barracks). Came under orders of 108th Brigade in 36th (Ulster) Division. The battle mentioned here should be the Battle of Aubers ridge (910 May 1915) - the battalion successfully took its objectives at Rouge Bancs near Fromelles, but it again suffered very heavy casualties. October 1915 : landed at Boulogne. Royal Irish Rifles (d.21st March 1918), Pte. ROYAL IRISH RIFLES. Salter J. W.. 2nd Lt. B Coy 11th (South Antrim) Btn. Balmoral Industrial School Roll of Honour. We have a large archive of soldier records. 10th Btn. All three brigades fought in the Battle for Ginchy, although 49th Brigade was in reserve initially. var year=mydate.getYear() Moved to Newtownards and came under orders of 108th Brigade in 36th (Ulster) Division. Rflmn. Rflmn. This was on the 30th May 1916. The remaining nine never appeared and were assumed to have died. (d.21st Jun 1917). Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, 1912-1917: records of the Young Citizen Volunteers of Ireland, later the 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), 1917: company roll book for 7th Battalion, About our 11th Btn (d.1st Jul 1916), Moorhead James. David has worked on several other high-profile public sculptures of famous people, including Robert Dunlop in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim and Todger Jones V.C. 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. The painting, 'Attack of the Ulster Division, 1 July 1916' by J P Beadle' is reproduced by kind permission of the Belfast City Council. He was wounded by shell fragments in 1916 during the Somme offensive. Moved to Hursley Park and came under command of 25th Brigade in 8th Division. Bloomfield Arthur Henry. Rfm. Powered by Invision Community. (d.7th Jun 1917), Barnett Robert Henry. The Rifles were honoured for Bazentin Ridge, Pozires and Ancre Heights, while one of their affiliated Territorial Force battalions, 1st Bn The London Irish Rifles, also received the honour le Transloy. In all, twenty Irish battalions, plus The Tyneside Irish, took part in the attack. 1st Btn. In 1958 the Royal Ulster Rifles became part of the North Irish Brigade, and were expected to wear the Brigade badge. . Rflmn. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. These cookies do not store any personal information. 14th Btn. 1st Battalion (d.24th April 1917), Gibson Walter David. 14th Btn. 28 June was a wonderful day for the people of Bushmills and a great honour for our Society that the Queen graciously agreed to perform the official unveiling. Braving No-Mans Land Sergeant Robert Quigg V.C, By Leonard Quigg/the Robert Quigg V.C. Rflmn. His name was Duff. Rflmn. Rflmn. In his history of the Ulster Division, Cyril Falls, an officer of the Division, dismisses the attack by 108th Brigade on the left flank as separate from the other and of less importance, a strange comment since this attack was integral to the overall 36th Division, and Fourth Army, plan. Rfmn. [5], The battalion left the Somme for Loos after the first phase of the battle but returned in October 1916 to fight on the ridges of Le Transloy in appallingly muddy conditions. It participated in several of the most significant battles of the war, including the battles of Neuve-Chapelle, the Somme, Passchendaele and St Quentin. Royal Irish Rifles. Frederick Bryans 15th Btn. the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection. 2nd Battalion Rfm. Absorbed into 2nd Bn on 14 November 1917. 2nd Battalion The 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles was serving in Aden when the First World War broke out in August 1914. 3rd (Reserve) Battalion 9th Btn. Rfm. Accepting he may have added a few months to his age on enlistment if he told the truth it means he enlisted aged eighteen. He died in 1952 (15 years before I was born) but I grew up on legends and tales about him all my life and we all love him several generations on. Moved to England in April 1918, going to Larkhill where absorbed by 3rd (Reserve) Bn. As we were growing up WW1 was a dim and distant memory and, as far as my father was concerned, it wasn't something he wanted to discuss much with his children. The 2nd Battalion were in action again on the Somme in the Battles of the Lys and the final advance in Flanders. 11th (South Antrim) Btn. 9th (West Belfast) Btn. (d.7th Jun 1917), Arbuthnot William Henry. The 2nd Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, known as The Lumps, were in the 32nd Division on the right flank, which had been stopped almost as its units left their start lines by heavy machine-gun fire from the Thiepval Spur.