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'''86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot'''
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'''86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot''', know as the '''Royal Irish Rifles''' from 1881.
  
 
== Chronology ==
 
== Chronology ==
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*'''1806''' became the 86th (The Leinster) Regiment of Foot
 
*'''1806''' became the 86th (The Leinster) Regiment of Foot
 
*'''1812''' became the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot
 
*'''1812''' became the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot
*'''1881''' amalgamated with the 86th (Royal County Down)) Regiment of Foot to form The Royal Irish Rifles
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*'''1881''' amalgamated with the [[83rd Regiment of Foot |83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot]] to form The Royal Irish Rifles
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*'''1921''' became the Royal Ulster Rifles
 
*'''1947''' grouped with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Royal Irish Fusiliers into the North Irish Brigade
 
*'''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
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*'''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).
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*'''1991''' amalgamated with the Ulster Defence Regiment to form the new The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment).
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== Service in British India ==
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*'''1799''' [[Madras]]
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*'''1799''' [[Bombay]]
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*'''1800''' [[Ceylon]]
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*'''1801''' [[Egyptian Campaign 1801|Egypt]]
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*'''1802''' [[Bombay]]
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*'''1803''' [[2nd Maratha War]]
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*'''1806''' [[Bombay]]
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*'''1806''' Goa
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*'''1810''' [[Mauritius Campaign]]
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*'''1810''' [[Madras]]
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*'''1854''' India
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*'''1857''' [[Indian Mutiny]]
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*'''1897''' [[Poona]]
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*'''1923''' [[Madras]]
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== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86th_(Royal_County_Down)_Regiment_of_Foot 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot]
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86th_(Royal_County_Down)_Regiment_of_Foot 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br>
  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Irish_Rangers Royal Irish Rangers] Wikipedia
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071007120842/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/086-795.htm 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071022111421/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/086-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site.
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071015185428/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/083RIrRf.htm Royal Irish Rifles] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071017220458/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/083-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071022111421/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/086-1.htm 2nd Battalion]  Regiments.org, an archived site.
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*[http://www.royal-irish.com/ The Royal Irish <nowiki>[Regiment]</nowiki>]  Details of Museums and  database for the Royal Irish Rifles ([[83rd Regiment of Foot|83rd]] and 86th  Regiments of Foot), the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers ([[27th Regiment of Foot|27th]] and [[3rd Madras (European) Infantry|108th]] Regiments of Foot),  and the Royal Irish Fusiliers ([[87th Regiment of Foot|87th]]  and [[89th Regiment of Foot|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 Regiment of Foot|88th]] and [[94th Regiment of Foot|94th]] Regiments of Foot),  the Dublin Fusiliers ([[1st Madras (European) Fusiliers|102th]] and [[1st Bombay (European) Fusiliers| 103th]] Regiments of Foot) and the [[18th Regiment of Foot|(18th) Royal Irish Regiment]]. The Leinster Regiment  ([[100th Regiment of Foot|100th]] and 109th Regiments of Foot) and the Royal Munster Fusiliers  ([[1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers| 101st]] and [[2nd Bengal (European) Light Infantry|104th]] Regiments of Foot) also are part of this category.
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*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44225104 "The Journal of Patrick Sinclair Laing Assistant Surgeon, 86th Regiment, 1842-1848"] by H B Eaton. ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Vol. 62, No. 250 (Summer 1984), pp. 74-89. Register and read online for free. jstor.org. The diary extracts commence October 1844.
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:[https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b18395429 Online draft of this article]  Wellcome Library RAMC/1582,  catalogued as "Draft of "The journal of Patrick Sinclair Laing, assistant surgeon, 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot, 1842 to 1847, in India"". Note, the draft is longer, and has information from 1842.
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====Historical books online====
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecord00canniala#page/n13/mode/2up ''Historical Record of the Eighty-Sixth, or the Royal County Down Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1842'']  Archive.org. Indian service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecord00canniala#page/12/mode/2up page 13] in 1799 in Madras.
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*"Notes on the History and Services of the 86th Regiment of Foot" [https://archive.org/stream/unitedservicema05unkngoog#page/n218/mode/2up  Page 209], [https://archive.org/stream/unitedservicema05unkngoog#page/n384/mode/2up page 375] and [https://archive.org/stream/unitedservicema05unkngoog#page/n472/mode/2up page 462] ''Colburn’s United Service Magazine 1878, Part III. ''Archive.org.  The account covers the period in India from 1799 to 1809. ([https://archive.org/stream/unitedservicema05unkngoog#page/n68/mode/2up Page 59], not India. Possibly there are parts in earlier editions).The account continues in 1879 Part I : [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rugRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27 27-34] (1810-1818), [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rugRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA298 298-307] (1818-1846). 1879 Part 2: [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iegRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA88 88-100] (to 1879). Google Books.
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*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081656500?urlappend=%3Bseq=342 "The Storming of Jhansi: A Passage in the History of the Royal County Downs"] by J. D. B. page 344 ''The United Service Magazine 1878, Part 1'' HathiTrust Digital Library. See [[Central India Campaign]].
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Latest revision as of 12:31, 22 October 2020

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).

Service in British India

External Links

Online draft of this article Wellcome Library RAMC/1582, catalogued as "Draft of "The journal of Patrick Sinclair Laing, assistant surgeon, 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot, 1842 to 1847, in India"". Note, the draft is longer, and has information from 1842.

Historical books online