![]() ![]() ![]() In October 1905, a memorial was erected in the grounds of Belfast City Hall in memory of the 132 who did not return. The regiment suffered serious losses at the Battle of Stormberg in December 1899 during the Second Boer War. Militarily, the whole of Ireland was administered as a single command within the United Kingdom with Command Headquarters at Parkgate ( Phoenix Park) Dublin, directly under the War Office in London. It was the county regiment of Antrim, Down, Belfast and Louth, with its depot located at Victoria Barracks, Belfast. In 1881, under the Childers Reforms, the 83rd and 86th were amalgamated into a single regiment, named the Royal Irish Rifles, one of eight infantry regiments raised and garrisoned in Ireland. As part of that expansion it raised two new regiments of foot, the 83rd and the 86th. In 1793 the British Army expanded to meet the commitments of the war with the French First Republic. The regiment's history dates backs to the reign of King George III. ![]() Monument to the men of the Royal Irish Rifles who died in the Second Boer War in the grounds of Belfast City Hall ![]()
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