The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment is created

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Fri, 07/01/1881

The Leinster Regiment

The Secretary of State for War, Hugh Childers, restructured the infantry of the British Army in what was known as the Childers reforms of 1881. The 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot and The 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry) were merged, given Irish territorial titles and designated the 1st Battalion and the 2nd Battalion The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians). Their Home Depot became Crinkill Barracks near Birr, County Offaly. The 3rd, 4th and 5th Battalion were the Militia (Reserve) battalions for the counties of King's, Queen's and Meath.

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'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. He was facing the right way, the last round of a clip in the breech and three dead Germans in front of him. His name was Duff. After all is over - and the remainder of the Empire is understandably irritated with Ireland - I hope these countless Duffs, from both the North and the South, and in all three services, will be remembered.
(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)

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