1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles

[draperju]

Could anyone give me details and whereabouts of this Battalion durig December 1914 I am looking into the death of Captain B Allgood who died 6th December 1914. I have access to the Bond of Sacrifice for 1914 but do have any information about the sector in which this battalion was operating.

Best wishes

Draperju

[Sue Light]

The battalion war diary is downloadable from the National Archives web site. It's on this page, but it's out of date order, so look down the list until you find the right date:

Documents on line - Royal Irish Rifles

Regards

Sue

[joan bourgeois]

The battalion war diary is downloadable from the National Archives web site.  It's on this page, but it's out of date order, so look down the list until you find the right date:

Documents on line - Royal Irish Rifles

Regards

Sue

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Hi Sue,

I just read your reply,I am also searching for the war diary for the R.I.R. August to December 1914 and went into documents on line, but I could not download it.I am not to sure what to do.

Do I have to pay first?

Thanks Sue,

Joan

[shaymen]

Joan

Click here

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...resultcount=462

Click Add to shopping - then click checkout - then pay with you credit card.

It will also ask you for your e-mail.

You can now download it and save it to your pc.

Hope that helps

Glyn

[joan bourgeois]

Hi Sue,

I just read your reply,I am also searching for the war diary for the R.I.R. August to December 1914 and went into documents on line, but I could not download it.I am not to sure what to do.

Do I have to pay first?

Thanks Sue,

Joan

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Thanks Glyn!

Joan

[Jimmy Taylor]

This is an extract from my history of 1st RIR. Hope it is useful.

Capt. Bertram Allgood . Born 11.2.1874, the second son of Major-General George Allgood CB (1837–1907), Indian Army, latterly Chief Constable of Northumberland, and Elizabeth Allgood (died 1874). Educated at Eton and received his commission in the RIR from the militia, 15.5.1897, being promoted Lt., 10.8.1898, and Capt., 6.2.1904. At the time of the South African War he was serving with 1st RIR at Calcutta and so did not take part in that campaign. Continued to serve in India until 1905, when he reported for duty to the depot at Belfast. Returned to India but again came back to Belfast, and then served for a time with 2nd RIR at Dover.

Appointed Adjutant of 4th RIR, 19.12.1911, keeping this appointment until retirement from the Army in February 1914, joining the Reserve of Officers. At the outbreak of the Great War he was called up for service and joined 3rd RIR, 14 August, but later went to the front with 1st RIR, 7 November. He was the first officer serving with 1st RIR to be killed during the war. Shot while taking his men into the trenches, 6.12.1914.

Col. Laurie: ‘I had ordered everyone to return, wished them good luck, and was waiting to see that they were all in whilst the Germans were sniping at us, when someone came and reported to me that a man had been shot through the shoulder by the same bullet which I afterwards heard was believed to have killed Capt. Allgood. The stretcher-bearers brought the latter in, and I sent for the doctor at once, but he could only pronounce him to be dead also! He was shot through the heart, and fell down remarking: “I am hit, but I am all right”, and never spoke or moved again. He leaves one little daughter and a young wife … He looked so peaceful lying on the stretcher.’

Bond of Sacrifice: ‘He was very fond of hunting, polo, and all sport, and was a member of the Naval and Military Club. Captain Allgood married in April, 1913, Isa Cochrane, daughter of the late Arthur Bayley and Mrs Herbert Lyde, and left a daughter, born August, 1914.’

Estaires Communal Cemetery, Nord, I.B.2. File missing at National Archives.