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{{Template:Origin|text=The following history of the Connaught Rangers (during the period 1857-1870) was extracted by Chris Bateman of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The original work was entitled ''The Connaught Rangers - 1st Battalion, Formerly 88th Foot'' by Lieutenant-Colonel H.F.N. Jourdain, C.M.G., and was published in London in 1924. It has been extracted with the footnotes identified and included in the main text. This section was part of the Family History in India website, which was designed by Cathy Day to help people trace their British and European ancestry in colonial India . Cathy has kindly allowed us to transfer this page to our wiki.}} This volume is now available online, see below.

 ==References==1922===="Leaving Rawal Pindi on April 4th, 'They took passage to England, with Shorncliffe as their destination for the disbandment, in the same transport with another compatriot corps, destined to share their fate, the 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish'." <ref>''Great War Forum'' post in the topic "1st Connaught Rangers 1922" by archangel9 5 May 2019 (in a members's only section) quoting Jourdain & Fraser, The ''Connaught Rangers, Vol 1''.<references /ref> They sailed on the "Syria". <ref>Same ''Great War Forum'' topic, post by Derek Black 17 April 2019, quoting "''Freeman's Journal'' - Friday 28 April 1922", [a Dublin newspaper available online on BNA/findmypast].</ref> 

*''The Connaught Rangers (The History of the Regiment)'' by Lieut-Colonel H F N Jourdain and Edward Fraser, in three volumes, originally published 1924-1928, is available as a reprint from [http://www.naval-military-press.com/connaught-rangers.html Naval and Military Press] Vol 1: 1793-1922 1st Battalion, formerly the 88th Foot; Vol II : 1572-1922 2nd Battalion, formerly the [[94th Regiment of Foot|94th Foot]]; Vol III: 1914-1919 5th & 6th Service Battalions. Available at the [[British Library]]**After World War 1, the 1st Battalion served in India, where news of the ‘Black and Tans' atrocities in their native Ireland sparked a mutiny at Jullundur during which two men were killed. 69 mutineers were court martialled and one executed as a result. Refer [[Connaught Rangers Mutiny]].*[httphttps://wwwaran.library.nuigalway.ie/geographyhandle/documents10379/Heritage-Chapter.pdf 5134 "A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness"] by John Morrissey, 2005 , Chapter 3 of ''Ireland’s Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity '' edited by M Mc Carthy 2005.[https://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/bitstream/handle/10379/5134/Ireland%27s_Heritages_Chapter.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y pdf] Website: Geography DeptARAN, National University of Ireland, Galway. Includes details of the recruitment area for the regiment, including page 5 of the pdf.

**The Regiment was briefly in India in 1800, [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecord00grea#page/4/mode/2up , page 4], and then took part in the [[Egyptian Campaign 1801| Egyptian Campaign of 1801]]*[https://archive.org/details/the-connaught-rangers-vol-1/page/n11/mode/2up ''The Connaught Rangers Volume 1, 1st Battalion, formerly 88th Foot''] by Lieut.-Colonel H F N Jourdain and Edward Fraser 1924 Archive.org. :During the Great War, the Battalion fought on the Western Front, in Mesopotamia and Palestine. In 1919 the Battalion was posted to India, where there was a mutinous outbreak in 1920. The regiment was disbanded in 1922.:[https://archive.org/details/the-connaught-rangers-vol-2/page/n11/mode/2up ''The Connaught Rangers Volume 2, 2nd Battalion, formerly 94th Foot''] by Lieut.-Colonel H F N Jourdain and Edward Fraser 1926 Archive.org. :During the Great War, the 2nd Battalion fought on the Western Front and was then amalgamated with the 1st Battalion.:[https://archive.org/details/connaughtrangersvol3/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Connaught Rangers Volume 3, 5th and 6th Service Battalions 1914-1919''] by Lieut.-Colonel H F N Jourdain and Edward Fraser 1928 Archive.org. The Battalions served at Gallipoli, Salonika, Palestine and France.