Chapter XXVIII: Appendix: 1

THE MOVEMENTS OF THE XVIIITH ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT FROM THE TIME
OF ITS FORMATION IN 1684 TO THE END OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA IN
1902, AND THE PLACES WHERE IT HAS BEEN QUARTERED IN TIME OF PEACE.

1685 Sailed for England; quartered at Chester, and then
returned to Ireland.
1687 At the Curragh during the summer.
1688 At the Curragh during the summer: then sailed for
England, and marched to London, thence to
Salisbury; returned to Colnbrook near London,
and in the winter quartered in Hertfordshire.
1689. April Hertfordshire to Chester; thence to Wales.
1689. August Ordered to Ireland on active service. (See Chapter I.)
1689 to 1691 On active service in Ireland. (See Chapter I.)
1691. December At Waterford and Youghal.
1692 Embarked at Waterford for Bristol; marched to
Portsmouth and sailed to the Low Countries on
active service, returning in the autumn to
Bristol.
1693. May Bristol to Portsmouth where the regiment was
embarked on men-of-war to serve as Marines;
in the autumn it was landed, and after a short
time at Norwich, returned to the Low Countries
on active service. (See Chapter I.)
1694 to 1697 On active service in the Low Countries until the end
of 1697, when the regiment was sent to Cork.
(See Chapter I.)
1698 Moved from Cork to Waterford.
1699 Moved from Waterford to Dublin.
1700 Moved from Dublin to Kinsale.
1701 Ordered to Low Countries in anticipation of active
service.
1702 to 1712 On active service in the Low Countries and Germany.
(See Chapter II.)
1713-14 In garrison at Ghent.
1715 In the autumn part of the regiment returned to
England, and was quartered at Gloucester.
1716. February The remainder arrived at Gloucester; later in the
year the whole regiment moved from Gloucester
to Oxford.
1717. May Moved to Portsmouth.
1718 Embarked at Portsmouth for Minorca.
1727 A detachment was sent from Minorca to reinforce
the garrison of Gibraltar during the siege of
1727. (See Chapter III.)
1727 to 1741 At Minorca.
1742 Embarked at Minorca for Portsmouth; quartered on
arrival in and around Taunton.
1743 Taunton to Exeter and Plymouth.
1744 Exeter and Plymouth to the neighbourhood of
Hounslow and thence to Fareham.
1745 To the Low Countries on active service (see Chapter
III.); returned to England in the autumn and
quartered at Dartford.
1746. March Dartford to Gravesend, where the regiment embarked
for Scotland, but arrived too late to take part
in the suppression of the Jacobite rising.
Leith to Nairn, Inverness, and Elgin.
1747 Concentrated for the summer at Fort Augustus; during
the winter quartered at Edinburgh and Stirling.
1748 Edinburgh and Stirling to Berwick, Newcastle, and
Carlisle, and thence to Glasgow.
1749. February Glasgow to Ireland; stationed at Enniskillen and
Ballyshannon.
1750 At Kinsale.
1751 At Cork.
1752 At Waterford.
1753 At Dublin.
1754 At Londonderry and Ballyshannon.
1755. April Embarked for Liverpool; marched to Berwick, in October
to Edinburgh.
1756. May Edinburgh to Fort William, with detachments in the
Highlands.
1757 Returned to Ireland.
1758 to 1766 In Ireland.
1767 Ireland to Philadelphia, North America.
1775 On active service in North America. (See Chapter III.)
1776 North America to England; quartered at Dover.
1777 At Dover.
1778 At Coxheath encampment.
1779 At Warley encampment.
1780 At the encampments at Finchley, and “Hyde Park in
London.”
1782 England to Jersey and Guernsey.
1783. July Guernsey to Portsmouth, and in October to Gibraltar.
1784 to 1792 At Gibraltar.
1793 Embarked at Gibraltar for active service at Toulon.
(See Chapter IV.)
1794 to 1797 On active service in the Mediterranean.
1798-1799 At Gibraltar.
1800-1801 On active service in the Mediterranean. (See Chapter
IV.)
1802 In the summer embarked at Elba for Cork, where they
landed on August 29th; quartered at Armagh.
1803 In the summer ordered from Armagh to Newry, where a
second battalion was raised. Both battalions
were quartered in Scotland during the autumn of
1803, at Edinburgh, Haddington, and Dunbar.
1804 In the summer both battalions sent to the camp on
Barham Downs near Canterbury; the _second
battalion_ sent later in the year to Jersey.
1805. January _First battalion_ embarked for Jamaica, where it
arrived at the end of April or beginning of May.
1806 _First battalion_ in Jamaica; _second battalion_ in
Jersey.
1807 _First battalion_ in Jamaica; _second battalion_
embarked for West Indies and was stationed at
the island of Curaçoa.
1808 No change of stations.
1809. June 7th _First battalion_ from Jamaica to the Island of San
Domingo (see Chapter IV.) on active service and
back to Jamaica; _second battalion_ at Curaçoa.
1810 _First battalion_ at Jamaica: _second battalion_
returned to England.
1811 _First battalion_ at Jamaica: _second battalion_
ordered to Jersey.
1812 to 1813 No change of stations.
1814 _First battalion_ at Jamaica: _second battalion_
disbanded.
1815-16 The regiment at Jamaica.
1817 Returned to England, landing in March, and was
stationed at Brighton, Chatham, Sheerness, and
finally at Hilsea Barracks.
1818 Hilsea Barracks to Haslar and Gosport; in December
returned to Ireland, landing at Cork, and was
stationed at Fermoy.
1819 January Fermoy to Waterford, Wexford, Carlow, Duncannon
Fort, Kilkenny.
1820. July Ordered to Cork.
1821. February Cork to Malta.
1824. May-June Malta to Ionian Isles.
1825 to 1831 In the Ionian Isles.
1832. February 6 Embarked for Portsmouth; landed on March 7th, and
marched to Weedon, whence a Wing was sent in
July to Tynemouth and Sheffield; the remainder
of the regiment followed soon afterwards to
Ashton. Later in the year the regiment sent
detachments to Wigan, Chester, and Mold.
1833 August Headquarters ordered to Salford Barracks, Manchester,
where the detachments rejoined.
1834. May 8 Manchester to Dublin.
” October Dublin to Limerick, with detachments at Newcastle,
Killaloe, Tipperary, Tarbert Fort, Carrick
Island, and New Port.
” August Limerick to Birr.
1836. March Birr to Athlone, with detachments at Roscommon and
Shannon Bridge.
” Nov. 15 Detachment of the regiment embarked at Cork for
Ceylon.
1837 to 1840
” Jan. 10 Headquarters and remainder of regiment embarked at
Cork for Ceylon.
” April 10 The detachment arrived in Ceylon.
” May 31 Headquarters and remainder of regiment arrived in
Ceylon; regiment stationed at Colombo with
detachment at Point de Galle; later headquarters
moved to Trincomalee.
1840. May 1 Headquarters and part of regiment embarked for the
China war, followed shortly by the remainder of
the XVIIIth. (See Chapter V.)
On active service.
1841 On active service.
1842 On active service till peace signed: then quartered
at Chusan and Kulangsu.
1845. May Concentrated at Hong Kong.
1846 At Hong Kong.
1847 At Hong Kong, and for a few days on active service
in the Canton river.
” Nov. 20 Embarked for Calcutta.
1848. January 10 Landed at Calcutta and quartered at Fort William,
with a detachment at Dum-Dum.
” Dec. 19 Headquarters and the greater part of regiment
embarked on river steamers for Allahabad,
whither they had been preceded by a detachment.
1849. Jan. 22 Headquarters arrived at Allahabad; ordered to
Umballa.
” March 24 Arrived at Umballa.
” Dec. 25 Began the march to Meerut.
1850. Jan. 4 Arrived at Meerut; detachment sent to Cawnpore.
1850. Oct. 14 Began the march to Allahabad.
” Nov. 21 Arrived at Allahabad.
” Nov. 22 A wing of the regiment embarked at Allahabad for
Calcutta.
” Dec. 14 Arrived at Calcutta.
1851. January 22 Headquarters and the other wing embarked at Allahabad
for Calcutta.
” Feb. 15 Arrived at Calcutta.
1852. Jan. 19 Headquarters and a wing of the regiment embarked
for Burma on active service. (See Chapter VI.)
” March 14 The remainder of the regiment followed.
1853 On active service in Burma; returned in November to
Calcutta.
” Dec. 27 Embarked in four transports for England.
1854. May-June Arrived in England: stationed at Chatham with a
detachment at Canterbury, and for a short time
also at Windsor Castle and Wellington Barracks,
London.
” Dec. 8 Embarked for active service in the Crimea. (See