1st Battalion, Irish Guards, British infantry
From Linking experiences of World War One
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Personal narratives
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Unit war diaries
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Biography
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Notes on battalion history from the Long, Long Trail site
August 1914 : in Aldershot. Part of 4th (Guards) Brigade, 2nd Division.
13 August 1914: landed at Le Havre.
20 August 1915 : transferred to 1st Guards Brigade, Guards Division.