01 / 11 / 1914. With the simultaneous outbreak of the Irish Civil War conflict some thousands of the disbanded ex-servicemen and officers contributed to expanding the Free State government's newly formed National Army. The 94th Regiment of Foot raised in 1823, and now the 2nd Connaught Rangers. Read tagging guidelines. There is an interesting story behind each of the 182 names inscribed on the monument. Search for WW1 Service Personal with Irish connections. A Memoriam Website database for Irish soldiers with Photos. These two organisations eventually worked together because of their common interests and common fraternal bond of the mutiny experience. Sign up to the Art UK newsletter. 2 talking about this. Send information to Art Detective. They brought considerable combat experience with them and by May 1923 Find more prominent pieces of genre painting at Wikiart.org best visual art database. He is shipped to Limburg along with many Irish POWs. My details can be shared with selected Art UK Partners. i would just like to let you know that their is an excellant association dedicated to preserving the name connaught rangers,which was formed in 2002 in boyle co.roscommon,ireland.their website is connaughtrangersassoc.com well done on connaughtrangers information Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.45.206.19 12:25, 23 December 2008 (UTC) The Connaught Rangers were the most Irish of all Irish regiments, and the boys that took the world aisy, as Grattan calls them, were as strange a set to manage as ever tried an officers temper. Followed the rest of the Irish Brigade through Limburg, Zossen and Danzig. Connaught Rangers - 6th Battalion. This guide will explain what a casualty list was, where to find them and how to search them using The Times Digital Archive, and British Newspaper Archive on FindmyPast. I have also enhanced the data with information extracted from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC.org). I have also enhanced the data with information extracted from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC.org). All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 2nd Battalion, Connaught Rangers from other sources. For instance, both the first and last Irishman to die in World War 1 hailed from the Ballina area, according to Mr. Clarke. Email address. Catalogue description Connaught Rangers This is Name Email address Place comments here. The casualty lists tell the same tale, and names of those in high command tell the same story of the gallantry of the fighting race. I have also written other guides to researching First World War soldiers: May they rest in peace. I cannot bring myself to think them, as many did, a parcel of devils, writes Grattan; neither will I by any manner of means try to pass them off for so many saints (pp. ARTWORKS. WW1 casualty lists are an excellent resource to use when researching a soldier who fought in the British Army during the First World War. Irish War Memorials offers a listing of persons whose names appear on war memorials in Ireland. Home; Using This Site; Recently Added; Records Wanted; Contributors; Our Facebook; Close menu; Persons Places Regiments / Services Wars. This was used for the Connaught Rangers in the British Army; in the title of Queen Victoria's son Arthur, Duke of Connaught; and the Connaught Hotel, London, named after the Duke in 1917. Mr. Clarke explains: The first Irishman to die in the First World War was Stephen Kennedy, 10691, 2nd Battalion Connaught Rangers. View the catalogue description for WO 329; Add a tag. Listed for the Connaught Rangers was created by Elizabeth Thompson in Romanticism style. First name. At Colenso the Connaught Rangers were in the thickest, and their losses were very heavy, being approximately 24 men killed, 2 officers and 103 men wounded, and 2 officers and 23 men missing: these latter had got so far forward that they either did not receive the order to retire or were unable to get back. The information presented here I have transcribed from "Soldiers Died in the Great War" and have added extra columns to try and give a breakdown of each man's county and country of birth were possible. The Connaught Rangers ("The Devil's Own") were an Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army formed by the amalgamation of the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) (which formed the 1st Battalion) and the 94th Regiment of Foot (which formed the 2nd Battalion) in July 1881. 94th FOOT. How to use this catalogue; Need more context? The Rangers had the distinction of being the only regiment in the British Army to carry its regional title from its birth. 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division-Wikipedia . with the 9th Manchester Regiment, 5th Connaught Rangers and 18th King's (Liverpool Regiment). My full transcription (not reproduced here) also contains the following information against some or all of the names: We look for friendship and fun in a regiment instead of the desire to win: you can't always win you see! The regiment was raised in Connaught by John Thomas de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricard as the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers), in response to the threat posed by the French Revolution, on 25 September 1793. Yes, 127 relations. The Connaught Rangers name and traditions irrevocably came to an end in 1922 when the colours were laid up. Photo credit: Bury Art Museum . Please ensure the tag is appropriate for the record. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 6th Battalion, Connaught Rangers from other sources. Connaught Rangers Mutiny in India 1920 The Connaught Rangers mutinied because of the atrocities committed by the Black and Tans in Ireland. The Connaught Rangers mutineers will be commemorated a century after they dropped their weapons and refused to obey British commanders while stationed in India in June 1920. The Connaught Ranger Mutineers Association was formed in 1927, and its focus was repatriation of the remains of Daly, Sears, and Smyth (Correspondence Oliver Fallon, Vice Chair/Researcher, Connaught Rangers Association, 14 February 2013). Feedback / Contact. Keogh has him as coming from Galway and Casements notes say he was a labourer before enlistment. Persons Search by: Name: War: Regiment: Place: Memorial: Name beginning with: Sorted by: You are now viewing persons Want to find out more about your relative's service? Staff service: Staff Captain (Intelligence.) 3780 Sergeant O'Hara Michael, 2nd Battalion, K.I.A. THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS 88th FOOT. She was of Irish, English, and Scottish descent. Password. This data has been transcribed from ten separately catalogued lists held at the Imperial War Museum, namely B.O.2 1/67 to B.O.2 1/76 which are ten separately typed lists of Connaught Rangers men dating to the 31st January 1919. About Us - In June 2002 the Connaught Rangers Association was set up in King House in Boyle, Co Roscommon by a number of individuals with a strong interest and family links to the old regiment. 1915 Oct 25. battalion Galway, St. Nicholas' Church: Connaught Rangers Memorial: Barrett, Anthony: WW I : Connaught Rangers The following list is from a Westmeath Independant issue from October 1915. The Rangers drew in recruits from across all areas of the province, and one of the most notable images of this is Listed for the Connaught Rangers, painted by Lady Elizabeth Butler, which depicts a recruiting sergeant escorting recruits to the depot against the backdrop of a ruggedly western landscape. "The following is list of men serving as soliders or sailors with the colours whose dependants were presented with Certificates of Honour at the meeting in the Father Matthew Hall on Thursday week with the names This post list the names of the men from the town of Swinford, County Mayo, who died on Active Service with the Connaught Rangers between 1914 - 1918. Search the site by name Search the complete register by surname, forename etc. The nucleus of the Association is made up of persons with a keen interest in preserving, remembering and gathering information on this great regiment before they were consigned to folklore. NAVIGATION. 22 / 12 / 1914. The information presented here I have transcribed from "Soldiers Died in the Great War" and have added extra columns to try and give a breakdown of each man's county and country of birth were possible.