86th Regiment of Foot
86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot, know as the Royal Irish Rifles from 1881.
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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).
Service in British India
- 1799 Madras
- 1799 Bombay
- 1800 Ceylon
- 1801 Egypt
- 1802 Bombay
- 1803 2nd Maratha War
- 1806 Bombay
- 1806 Goa
- 1810 Mauritius Campaign
- 1810 Madras
- 1854 India
- 1857 Indian Mutiny
- 1897 Poona
- 1923 Madras
External Links
86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
Historical Books Online
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 page 13 in 1799 in Madras.
