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Militia Mobilised

Gerard Hannan 3 weeks ago

The South African War entered everyday life in Limerick during 1900 when the Royal Limerick County Militia was embodied for extended military service. Since the army reforms of 1881, the historic county force had formed the 5th Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers and maintained its local headquarters at Strand Barracks. Its mobilisation connected families throughout Limerick city and county with the wider demands of an imperial conflict. Although the battalion did not campaign against the Boers as a complete unit, its men undertook duties that released regular soldiers for service elsewhere.

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Drogheda Muster

Gerard Hannan 3 weeks ago

Limerick entered the military calculations of the Jacobite leadership during the first half of September 1689, as Marshal Schomberg’s Williamite army advanced southwards through Ulster. French commander Conrad de Rosen regarded Dublin and Drogheda as dangerously exposed and favoured concentrating the Irish forces behind the Shannon, with Athlone and Limerick forming the principal defensive centres. The proposal revealed how rapidly Limerick had become important to the survival of James II’s cause. Richard Talbot, Duke of Tyrconnell, opposed an immediate abandonment of the eastern approaches and supported assembling the available Jacobite regiments around Drogheda to confront the advancing enemy.

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Garrison Announced

Gerard Hannan 3 weeks ago

A new military garrison was announced for Limerick on 2 January 1900, although the arrangement proved provisional. Contemporary reports stated that the 3rd Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, formerly the Royal Bucks Militia, would be embodied at High Wycombe and sent to Limerick for garrison duty during the South African War. The announcement also noted that the home details left behind by the regiment’s 1st Battalion, which had departed Aldershot for active service, had already reached the city. Within days, however, the proposed destination was altered, and the militia battalion was directed to Buttevant rather than Limerick.

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