83rd Regiment of Foot

The Royal Irish Rifles

Chronology

1793 raised as William Fitch's Regiment of Foot
1795 became the 83rd Regiment of Foot
1859 became the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot
1881 amalgamated with the 86th (Royal County Down) 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 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the Royal Irish Fusiliers to form The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th).
1991 amalgamated with the Ulster Defence Regiment to form the new The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment).

Royal Ulster Rifles Wikipedia
Royal Irish Rangers Wikipedia
83rd (County of Dublin) 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.The Leinster Regiment (100th and 109th Regiments of Foot) and the Royal Munster Fusiliers ( 101st and 104th Regiments of Foot) also are part of this category.
Photograph: Fred Godfrey, by a Meerut photographer, 1905 Daviddb’s photostream on flickr.com. Although labelled a different regiment, the comments underneath the photograph indicate this to be the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles.