86th Regiment of Foot

86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot, know as the Royal Irish Rifles from 1881.

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
1921 became the Royal Ulster 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).

86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site.
Royal Irish Rifles including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
The Royal Irish [Regiment] Details of Museums and database for the Royal Irish Rifles (83rd and 86th Regiments of Foot), the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (27th and 108th Regiments of Foot), and the Royal Irish Fusiliers (87th and 89th Regiments of Foot). In addition, in time it is intended to include in the database the names of many soldiers who served in what have become known as the Disbanded Irish Regiments, such as the Connaught Rangers, (88th and 94th Regiments of Foot), the Dublin Fusiliers (102th and 103th Regiments of Foot) and the (18th) Royal Irish Regiment