English Regiment in Newcastle, Co. Down 1917?

[pietro]

Hi,

Is it possible to find out if and what English regiment was in Newcastle, Co. Down, Ireland during the early part of 1917? A lot of the 13th RIR came from that area, but I believe from older family members that other soldiers "from across the water" were there sometimes too during WW1.

TIA

Pietro

[sotonmate]

Pietro

I counted 26 Battalions which have been listed as serving in Ireland around 1917-1918. There are many others which are merely stated as never leaving the UK during that War,technically Northern Ireland was the UK,so there may be many more too. They were mostly reserve battalions,from which reinforcements were drawn at times of depletion in battle. There was no named barracks/town nominated, merely Ireland.

I will list the main regiments,and year if known, for you:

Black Watch 1917

Cameron Highlanders 1917

Cameronians(2) disbanded in Ireland 1918

Devonshire 1918

Dorset 1918

Duke of Cornwall L.I. 1918

Durham L.I. 1917

Hampshire 1918

Highland Cyclist Bn 1918

Kings Liverpool 1917

KOSB (2) 1 date not known,the other disbanded in Ireland 1918

KOYLI 1918

Lincolnshire 1918

Norfolk 1918

Berkshire 1917

Royal Scots (2) 1918

Royal Scots Fusiliers disbanded in Ireland 1918

Sussex Cyclist Bn date not known

Welsh Fusiliers (2) date not known

Shropshire L.I. 1917

South Lancs 1918

Wiltshire 1918

Your note about the 13th RIR-they were drawn from County Down from Sept 1914 and later, in Aug 1916, amalgamated with the 11th South Armagh Bn to become the 11/13th RIR. I gleaned all this from the Regiments section in the Long Long Trail ! I learned something too !

Best wishes

Sotonmate

KO

[pietro]

Thanks for the reply - I'll take a longer look at the section in the Long Long Trail. I've also been thinking if I have a look at the records for the local newspaper, I might get the answer.

Thanks again!

P