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    This thread is dedicated to all Irish men and women who served in the uniform of any country;at home and round the world.

    The Irish heroes of Jadotville
    Last edited by jembo; 28-01-2021, 12:02 PM.
    I google because I'm not young enough to know everything.
    Nemo Mortalium Omnibus Horis Sapit

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    Originally posted by jembo View Post
    This thread is dedicated to all Irish men and women who served in the uniform of any country;at home and round the world.The Irish heroes of Jadotville
    Jadotville.....nobody had ever heard of it until the SH 1 T hit the fan....they said the compound was a joke.....the whole mission was no joke.
    We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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    • #3
      A DUBLINER Born plain Arthur Wesley...later changed to Wellsley.... and because that wasn't grand enough for him he changed it to Wellesley... he was most likely born in Mornington House 24 Upper Merrion Street, Dublin.......though his mother thought it was 6 Merrion Street.....

      Being the dunce of the family he joined the British Army in 1787 and after spending time being tutored and well looked after by his brother Richard in India, it was Richard who got him his commission and Richard who smoothed the way for his duncy brother....and made life easy for him....he quickly rose up the ranks......well he would wouldn't he !.

      After making his name in India, he commanded forces against Napoleon in Portugal and Spain during the Peninsular War (1808–14) and was promoted to Field Marshal in 1813.

      For his triumphs against the French, Wellesley was made a Peer in 1809. A national hero by 1814, he was generously rewarded by Parliament and took his seat in the House of Lords as the 1st Duke of Wellington. The Battle of Waterloo the following year sealed his military reputation.

      When asked about being Irish, he was reputed to have said with disdain:
      "Just because one is born in a stable doesn't make one a horse.

      The largest obelisk in Europe is dedicated to this man in the Phoenix Park, and only it's so huge the Ra would have blown it to bits long ago.....What a plonker he really was....
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      • #4
        nice pic of him in his new 'wellos'.....from frawleys.
        in god i trust...everyone else cash only.

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          horatio, lord kitchner. born In county Kerry, went on to have a dozen letters after his name, liked the wellos as well.
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            irish American,71 yr old jim mc cloughan a combat medic in Vietnam has been awarded the nations highest recognition for bravery, the congressional medal of honor by Donald trump, in Vietnam a 23 yr old mcloughan served through a 48 hr battle carrying wounded comrades to safety under intense gun fire.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by cosmo View Post
              horatio, lord kitchner. born In county Kerry, went on to have a dozen letters after his name, liked the wellos as well.
              Ahhhh yes oul Kitch....born same place an me Ma's Da....and The 'one and only' most famous O'Rahilly..."The" O'Rahilly.....BALLYLONGFORD north Kerry.....Well the ORahilly lost his life to a Brit machine gunner after escaping the burning GPO......Oul Kitch was drowned on a warship HMS Hampshire 5th June 1916......an my oul Granda died a thousand deaths during 21 odd years in the Brit Army....not least of all Crimea.......but finally died in 1896 aged just 59 years while living at New Row South in the Liberties.
              We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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              • #8
                Its a long way te tickle Mary.
                We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by jembo
                  Napoleon's Irish Legion (French: Légion irlandaise) was a French light infantry battalion established in 1803 for an anticipated invasion of Ireland. It was later expanded to a four battalion regiment with a depot and won distinction in the Walcheren Expedition and the Peninsular War. It was disbanded in 1815.

                  The first officers included Irish rebels taken during the 1798 rebellion who were freed during the short peace effected by the Treaty of Amiens on condition of exile, and who had sailed for France in June 1802. The treaty broke down in May 1803 with the start of the War of the Third Coalition. As a part of Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom in 1803-05, the Irish Legion was to provide the indigenous core for a much larger invasion force of 20,000 earmarked to take Ireland, known as the Corps d'Irlande.
                  The Legion was established on August 31, 1803 in Morlaix, France. Bernard MacSheehy was assigned to form the regiment he was an Adjutant-General in Napoleon's army.
                  The purpose of the Legion was to align the Irish hearts to the French cause in the imminent invasion of Ireland. General Pierre Augereau had been ordained to lead the invasion, and wanted Irishmen to serve in his army. However, the Battle of Cape Finisterre and the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 made a safe sea crossing uncertain at best, and Napoleon was forced to abandon his plans for Ireland. He shifted his focus towards Austria and Eastern Europe and launched the Austerlitz campaign in late 1805. The legion remained on the French coast on garrison duty and coastal defence.
                  The Legion was eventually expanded from a battalion to a regiment and there was greater demand for more soldiers.[1] These made a varied group; some came from Ireland, some had been pressed into the Royal Navy and escaped, and some were German or Polish.[1] While the Legion was stationed at Mainz in 1806, they were joined by 1,500 Poles [2] together with around 200 former United Irishmen who had been sold by the British Government following the recent Irish risings to Prussia to labour in her salt mines and had later joined the Prussian army. Its headquarters was at 's-Hertogenbosch, known to the French as Bois-le-Duc, in what was then the Kingdom of Holland.
                  The Irish Legion had its own flag, and in December 1805 received an eagle. The Legion was the only group of foreign soldiers in the French military to whom Napoleon ever gave an eagle. Wearing a green uniform, its maximum size was about 2,000 men.he regiment was greatly assisted from 1807 by Napoleon's war minister Marshal of France Henri Clarke, who was born in France to Irish parents and whose family had close links to the ancien regime Irish brigade that had served the kings of France. He and his father had served in Dillon's Regiment, and his mother's father and several uncles served in Clare's Regiment. In August 1811 the Legion was renamed the 3e Regiment Etranger (Irlandais) (3rd Foreign Regiment (Irish)), but throughout the unit's history it was always referred to as the Irish Regiment.
                  In 1808 the Second Battalion fought in the Peninsular War, helping to subdue Madrid during the Dos de Mayo Uprising and winning distinction at the Siege of Astorga, leading the charge that took the city.[2] During the battle, Captain John Allen's company's drummer boy continued to beat the charge after having lost both legs, for which he was given the French Legion of Honor.[1] In June 1810 it was reassigned to Masséna's Army of Portugal and served in Almeida and in the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro in 1811.
                  The First Battalion saw its first action at the Battle of Flushing in the Walcheren Campaign of 1809, suffering many casualties from malaria.[1]
                  The Legion / regiment was a part of General Puthod's 17th division in the German Campaign of 1813. At Goldsberg the regiment formed squares to repel a cavalry attack and were then easy targets for cannon fire, losing 400 men. In a skirmish near and during the second battle of bober, Puthod's men were caught by the Imperial Russian Army with their backs to the river Bóbr in flood, but held position until their ammunition ran out, and then tried to swim to safety. The regiment suffered heavy casualties from the subsequent bayonet assault, from drownings and from pursuit by roaming Cossack patrols, losing about 1,500 men. The survivors managed to save their eagle and retired to Bois-le-Duc.
                  In the ensuing Napoleonic retreat the regiment took part in the Siege of Antwerp 1814 and retired to Lille, where it remained until Napoleon's abdication in April 1814. [6]
                  In 1805-15 eleven of the regiment's officers were awarded the Legion d'honneur, including the colonel, William Lawless, and James Bartholomew Blackwell.
                  Disbandment
                  The regiment divided in loyalty during the "Hundred Days", and was officially disbanded by King Louis XVIII on 28 September 1815. Its flags were burned and its eagle destroyed.


                  Foreign regiments in the French Army 1810. Painting of 1830 by Alfred de Marbot (1812-1865). In the center, wearing green uniforms, officer and grenadier of the Irish Legion.
                  Jembo; that was a very informative post Thank you.

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                  • #10
                    Thank you Ed
                    I google because I'm not young enough to know everything.
                    Nemo Mortalium Omnibus Horis Sapit

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                    • #11
                      Viva Ambrosio Bernardo O'Higgins From Sligo.

                      About 1760, Ambrosio Bernardo O'Higgins enrolled in the Spanish Imperial Service as draughtsman and then engineer. He was directly responsible for the establishment of a reliable postal service between La Plata colony and the General Captaincy of Chile.

                      On his first harrowing journey over the Andes mountains separating Argentina and Chile during the winter of 1763-64, O'Higgins conceived the idea of a chain of weatherproof shelters. By 1766, thanks to O'Higgins' efficient execution of this plan, Chile enjoyed all-year overland postal service with Argentina, which had previously been cut off for several months each winter.

                      In 1764, John Garland, another Irish engineer at the service of Spain who was military governor of Valdivia, convinced him to move to the neighbouring, and less established, colony of Chile as his assistant. He was initially commissioned as a junior subaltern in the Spanish army. In 1770, now in his late forties, the president of Chile appointed him captain of a column of cavalry to resist the attacks of the Araucanian Indians, whom he defeated, founding the fort of San Carlos in the south of the province of Arauco. He gained the good-will of the Indians by his humanity and benevolence, and recovered big swathes of territory that had been lost by the Spaniards.

                      He rose quickly in the ranks. As a consequence of his services viceroy Manuel de Amat appointed him, on 7 September 1777, a colonel in the army. He soon rose to be brigadier, and viceroy Teodoro de Croix appointed him Intendant of Concepción in 1786.

                      In 1788, in return for his efforts in South America, King Charles III of Spain created O'Higgins as 1st Barón de Ballinar (a title of the Spanish Crown not to be confused with the family's existing Gaelic title), and promoted him to major-general. Soon afterward he became Captain General and Governor of Chile.
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                      • #12
                        Laval Graf Nugent von Westmeath (November 3, 1777 – August 21, 1862) was a soldier of Irish birth, who fought in the armies of Austria and the Two Sicilies.
                        Born at Ballynacor, Ireland, Nugent was the son of Count Michael Anton Nugent von Westmeath, Governor of Prague.

                        In 1793, he joined the Austrian Army, becoming Colonel in 1807, and Chief of Staff of the Army corps of Archduke Johann of Austria in 1809. In 1813, he led the campaign against Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais, separating French units in Dalmatia and simultaneously joining the English fleet, thus liberating Croatia, Istria and the Po valley. In 1815, during the Neapolitan War, he commanded the right wing of the Austrian Army in Italy, liberated Rome, and defeated Joachim Murat at the Battle of Ceprano and the Battle of San Germano.

                        In 1816, Nugent was given the title of prince by Pope Pius VII. In 1817, he entered the service of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. After the outbreak of the Carbonari rebellion in 1820, he returned to serve in the Austrian Army.[1] In 1848, he led an Army Corps under Joseph Radetzky von Radetz against the Piedmontese, in the course of the First Italian War of Independence, and also against the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He received the title of Field Marshal in 1849.

                        Nugent died on 22 August 1862 in the Bosiljevo Castle, near Karlovac, and his body was later transferred to a sarcophagus in the Doric temple "Peace for the Hero", in Trsat above Rijeka, next to the sarcophagus of his wife.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
                          Laval Graf Nugent von Westmeath (November 3, 1777 – August 21, 1862) was a soldier of Irish birth, who fought in the armies of Austria and the Two Sicilies.
                          Born at Ballynacor, Ireland, Nugent was the son of Count Michael Anton Nugent von Westmeath, Governor of Prague.

                          In 1793, he joined the Austrian Army, becoming Colonel in 1807, and Chief of Staff of the Army corps of Archduke Johann of Austria in 1809. In 1813, he led the campaign against Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais, separating French units in Dalmatia and simultaneously joining the English fleet, thus liberating Croatia, Istria and the Po valley. In 1815, during the Neapolitan War, he commanded the right wing of the Austrian Army in Italy, liberated Rome, and defeated Joachim Murat at the Battle of Ceprano and the Battle of San Germano.

                          In 1816, Nugent was given the title of prince by Pope Pius VII. In 1817, he entered the service of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. After the outbreak of the Carbonari rebellion in 1820, he returned to serve in the Austrian Army.[1] In 1848, he led an Army Corps under Joseph Radetzky von Radetz against the Piedmontese, in the course of the First Italian War of Independence, and also against the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He received the title of Field Marshal in 1849.

                          Nugent died on 22 August 1862 in the Bosiljevo Castle, near Karlovac, and his body was later transferred to a sarcophagus in the Doric temple "Peace for the Hero", in Trsat above Rijeka, next to the sarcophagus of his wife.

                          When I looked at it quickly thought he had an "Afro"
                          The mind is everything. What you think you become.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by dinny View Post
                            When I looked at it quickly thought he had an "Afro"
                            LOL... I wanna be called Laval Graf if I come back ffs....
                            We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by jembo
                              South African Irish Regiment
                              The South African Irish Regiment is an infantry regiment of the South African Army. As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard unit.
                              Origins.
                              Although all the regular units of Irish origin in the British Army have served in South Africa at some time during its colonial involvement in South Africa, the first autonomous South African units shaped by Irish influences were the Cape Town Irish Volunteer Rifles (raised by a Major O'Reilly in 1885) and Driscoll's Scouts (raised by Capt D.P. Driscoll during the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899 – 1902).
                              However, an Irish Brigade also fought on the side of the Boer republics.
                              World War I.
                              The South African Irish was formed at the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 when three officers (Major George Twomey, Captain J. Jeoffreys and a Captain MacDonald) met at the Irish Club in Johannesburg to raise an Irish regiment from among the citizens of Johannesburg and its surrounding areas.
                              After a request to The Union Defence Force (UDF) Headquarters, authority was granted to form the regiment and Lieutenant-Colonel Brennan was appointed as its first commanding officer. Major Twomey was appointed as its recruiting officer. The wife of General Louis Botha (a lady of Irish descent with the maiden name of Emmett) was appointed as the regiment's first honorary colonel.
                              Sources are not clear on the official date of formation of the South African Irish, but it is either 9 September or 1 December 1914. In any case, the battalion, consisting of six companies, first formed up at Booysens Camp in Johannesburg on the former date.
                              After training, the regiment was made part of 4 South African Infantry Brigade (part of the Northern Force) and embarked from Cape Town to the (then) German South-West Africa on 21 December 1914. On 25 December 1914 the Force landed at Walvis Bay and went into action immediately. The Regiment itself first came into contact with their German enemy on the following day, barely three months after it was raised.
                              At the end of the campaign in South-West Africa, Active Citizen Force regiments were by law not permitted to proceed to other theatres of war as such. Special war service units were thus created to fight in East Africa and Europe. Volunteers from the South African Irish Regiment was formed, together with members of other units, into the composite 9 South African Infantry Regiment. 9 SAI campaigned in East Africa, where it earned the honours Kilimanjaro and East Africa 1916–17.
                              The SA Irish were formally disbanded on 31 December 1919. On 29 January 1921, at a ceremony in Johannesburg, the regiment was posthumously presented with the King's Colour by Prince Arthur of Connaught, the (then) Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, in recognition of its service in South-West Africa.

                              World War II
                              Mobilisation
                              At the outbreak of World War II in 1939 the 1st South African Irish Regiment was reformed through the efforts of Major Twomey, Captains Jeoffreys and Cullinan (the latter was the son of Sir Thomas Cullinan, of diamond fame).
                              Although the unit was designated as the 1st South African Irish a second battalion was never formed as the men intended for this second battalion were drafted to the first. In practice, the usual designation for the regiment was thus the South African Irish Regiment.
                              The South African Irish Regiment initially consisted of a regimental HQ, a Support Company and three infantry companies; a pipe band was later added.
                              After a period of training, the regiment was mobilised on 16 June 1940 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel D.I. Somerset. It was grouped together with 2 Regiment Botha and 3 Transvaal Scottish to form the 5th South African Infantry Brigade. In July of the same year, the brigade was shipped to Kenya via the port of Durban to become part of 1st South African Infantry Division.
                              East Africa.
                              After concentrating at the town of Gilgil in Kenya, the regiment took part in the invasion of Southern Abyssinia on 1 February 1941, part of the East African Campaign; it distinguished itself during the fighting at El Gumu, Hobok and Banno in early February as well as during the capture of Mega on 18 February.
                              5 Brigade, including the South African Irish, then returned to Kenya and embarked at Mombasa on 18 April. The Brigade reached Suez in Egypt on 1 May.
                              Western Desert.
                              In November 1941 Operation Crusader, the invasion of Libya and relief of Tobruk, began. 5 South African Infantry Brigade, together with the Transvaal Horse Artillery Regiment, took part in the fighting at Sidi Rezegh culminating on 23 November 1941 with the German armour overwhelming the Allied forces, destroying 5 Brigade, and breaking through to the Eighth Army's rear areas on the Libyan border with Egypt. The casualties of the South African Irish were extremely heavy (only 140 men of all ranks survived), including its commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Dobbs who was wounded in the early stages of the battle (he was replaced by Major C. McN. Cochran).Major Cochran then led the remnants of the battalion, along with the remaining five guns of 9th Field Battery eastwards towards the lines of the Scottish (these were the only guns in 5 Brigade which were not captured!), in an attempt to escape.
                              In addition, several members of the unit drowned while on their way to Italy by ship as prisoners of war. The survivors of the regiment served with New Zealand forces until the end of November, when they rejoined the remnants of the decimated Brigade at Mersa Matruh.
                              Due to their heavy losses, the South African Irish and 3 Transvaal Scottish ceased to exist as independent infantry units. In February 1942, the survivors of these two battalions joining together to form a composite battalion and it was later re-constituted as 2nd Regiment Botha under command of Lt-Col Boerstra. 2nd Regiment Botha was then further reinforced with replacements coming from the 2nd Witwatersrand Rifles after which, the battalion moved by rail and in New Zealand troop carriers from Mersa Matruh to El Adem. In this form, the remnants of the South African Irish were once again in action during September 1942, during the fighting at El Alamein.
                              11 Battery, 4 Field Regiment, South African Artillery, returned to the Union of South Africa in 1943 and was reconstituted as 4/22 Field Regiment, South African Artillery. This unit later returned to North Africa as a component of the South African 6th Armoured Division and also took part in the subsequent fighting in Italy.
                              More:-
                              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_...Irish_Regiment
                              I spent a bit of time in Gilgil.......
                              Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!

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