86th Regiment of Foot

86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot

Chronology

1793 raised as Sir Cornelius Cuyler's Shropshire Volunteers at Shrewsbury from men of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cheshire as a volunteer corps
1794 became the 86th (the Shropshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
1795 absorbed personnel of 118th Regiment of Foot
1806 became the 86th (The Leinster) Regiment of Foot
1812 became the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot
1881 amalgamated with the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot to form The Royal Irish Rifles
1947 grouped with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Royal Irish Fusiliers into the North Irish Brigade
1968 amalgamated with the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot to form The Royal Irish Rifles
1991 amalgamated with the Ulster Defence Regiment to form the new The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment).