Category: Irish Guards

Categories: British Army | British Army in World War I | Irish Officers in the British Army

Formed on 1 April 1900 by order of Queen Victoria to commemorate the Irishmen who fought in the Second Boer War for the British Empire it is one of the two Irish infantry regiments still remaining in the British Army.

The Irish Guards recruit in Northern Ireland and the Irish neighbourhoods of major British cities. However, although restrictions in the Republic of Ireland's Defence Act make it illegal to induce, procure or persuade enlistment of any citizen of the Republic of Ireland into the military of another state, people from the Republic do enlist in the regiment. Today the Regiment recruits from all around the United Kingdom and Commonwealth and recently, the regiment has also seen several "non-traditional" recruits, notably Christopher Muzvuru of Zimbabwe who qualified as a piper before becoming one of the regiment's two fatal casualties in Iraq in 2003.

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Harold Alexander 10 Dec 1891 Mayfair, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 16 Jun 1969

Albert Andrews 11 Dec 1878 Notting Hill, London, England - abt Dec 1956

B

Valentine Browne 29 May 1891 - 20 Sep 1943

Cecil Brownhill 24 Mar 1898 Denby Dale, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom - 25 Mar 1938

Francis Burges 17 Nov 1893 Dongara, Western Australia, Australia - 18 Sep 1916

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Hubert Crichton 17 Dec 1874 - 01 Sep 1914

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Joseph Ferris abt 1890 Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland - 02 Dec 1917

Maurice Fitzgerald 22 Nov 1895 Prospect House, Limerick, Ireland - 19 Apr 1918

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Sammy Harbison 1930s - 2010s

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Leopold Hargreaves 1883 Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England - 25 Sep 1916

Aubrey Herbert 03 Apr 1880 Highclere Castle, Kingsclere, Hampshire, England - 26 Sep 1923

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Hugh Lofting 14 Jan 1886 Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom - 26 Sep 1947

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Moses McCoubrey 01 Jun 1882 Rademan, Kilmore, County Down, Ireland - 22 Dec 1955

Thomas McEvoy 26 Sep 1891 Donacarney Great, County Meath, Ireland - 03 Dec 1917

Alastair Miller 05 Mar 1893 Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom - 01 Apr 1964

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Bruce Ogilvy 15 Mar 1895 Cork, County Cork, Ireland - 29 Sep 1976

Patrick Ogilvy 26 Jun 1896 - 09 Oct 1917

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Laurence Parsons 28 Sep 1906 - 01 Jul 1979

William Parsons 14 Jun 1873 - 10 Jun 1918

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Charles Rooker 12 Jun 1881 Seighford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom - 28 Aug 1918

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Kenneth Schweder 03 Jun 1894 Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom - 24 Nov 1979

Edward (Stafford) Stafford-King-Harman 13 Apr 1891 Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland - 06 Nov 1914

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Thomas Vesey 21 Dec 1885 - 01 Feb 1946

Y

John Yerburgh 23 May 1923 - 17 Jun 2014

Richard Yerburgh 05 Nov 1882 Kensington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 13 Mar 1926

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