So used are we, in The Royal Irish Regiment, to the sight of the green hackle and to the motto‘Faugh a Ballagh’that we often assume that these distinctions have always been with the Regiment and its predecessors. But this is not so, as documents in the National Archives at Kew show....
The cross belt with rear pouch and whistle was retained by The Royal Irish Rangers, albeit in brown leather with a Ranger badge on the front, and is now a part of The Royal Irish Regiment officers' uniform (left), thereby maintaining another link with our antecedent and founding regiments....
that the brigade actually started on the retreat in the following order: 1st 60th Rifles (advance-guard), 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, 13th Battery, Mounted Infantry, Transport, 67th and 69th Batteries, 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 18th Hussars, 1st Leicestershire Regiment (rearguard). The force o...
Epaulette of Warrant Officer (WO) for the Royal Air Force Regiment. This Warrant Officer (WO) epaulette features a woven royal arms cypher.
3. The Foot Guards Will be From One of Five Regiments The Royal Tower of London These five regiments are the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards, the Scots Guards, the Irish Guards and the Welsh Guards. Their uniforms all differ slightly - for example, the Grenadier Guards have single...
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until he returned to his home in Cardiff. We do know that the idea of Black soldiers fighting in Europe was still very much frowned upon in 1915 and the BWIR was still over a year away from being formed. Perhaps the Irish were more sympathetic to Black volunteers than the English or ...
Ludwig II (1845-1886), King of Bavaria 1864-1886, in the uniform of the Bavarian Regiment, wearing the breast-stars of the Royal Bavarian Orders of St Hubert and St George, the badge of the Royal Bavarian Military Order of Max-Joseph and the badge of the