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2nd Battalion relaxing in Egypt, August 1944

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Major-General Sir Sebastian John Lechmere Roberts KCVO OBE.

The funeral mass for Major General Sir Sebastian Roberts – the former colonel of the Irish Guards and Honorary Colonel of the London Irish Rifles who died aged 69 on 9 March — was held at the London Oratory on 13 April. More than 1,000 mourners, including many retired Guardsmen, attended the event. HM King Charles III was represented […]

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Photos from the Boer War

Portrait photograph of Captain C G Henty, London Irish Rifles, 1900-1901 (courtesy of the National Army Museum).

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The Battle of Bou Arada – Hills 279/286

The Battle of Bou Arada was a bloody affair in which the 2nd Battalion, London Irish distinguished themselves, but with grievous losses. The night of 19 January 1943 had been spent just outside El Aroussa, and the next night the battalion moved into the plains to the west of Bou Arada. Another move was ordered, […]

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2/18th Battalion at Kherbet Adasseh

In the course of five weeks, the battalion had passed from the great heat and water scarcity of the desert to days and nights of continuous rain and it had now become bitterly cold. The area north of Jerusalem was a nightmare of rocky hills and no frontline was obvious. Some of the high points […]

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The London Regiment in Iraq

We have received a set of very evocative photographs from 2014 during the deployment of members of the London Regiment to Iraq. They show Messines Company carrying out their duties in the southern sector of Iraq near Basra and Kuwait and have been kindly passed over to us by Geraint “Taff” Hughes, who has been […]

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Monty inspects the 1st Battalion at Ashford, June 1941

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1st Battalion in Ashdown Forest, 1939/40

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1st Battalion in Kent, December 1940

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New Recruits at the Duke of York’s

Some more photographs of men of the London Irish Rifles – this set from the IWM collection are new recruits being shown what’s what at the Duke of York’s HQ in November 1939.

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