- Carlow Rifles
- (8th Battalion
King's Royal Rifle Corps)
- Victorian County Carlow Rifles Officer's Cross-Belt Plate
from 8th Battalion
- (Carlow Rifles Regiment of Militia ) [1881-1908].
- With two lugs with original nuts on reverse. Believed c.1870s.
Source:
Q&C Militaria
http://www.qcmilitaria.com/
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Carlow Rifles were part of the 8th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps
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- 1880 CR cap badge
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- Reverse
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1881. The King's Royal Rifle Corps reorganised without county affiliation upon territorialisation
of the infantry, but taking responsibility for some Militia in
Huntingdonshire, Middlesex, Flint, Carlow and Cork, and some Volunteers in
Middlesex.
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- The Original Light Infantryman c.1759
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- Buglers King's Royal Rifle Corps 1851
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 - The King's Royal Rifle Corps c1881
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- Officer and Bugler King's Royal Rifle
Corps 1890
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KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS
- This regiment was originally raised in New York and Philadelphia (1755)
as the 62nd Royal American Regiment of Foot, it was renumbered 60th in 1757
(the regiment was in the West Indies during the American war of
Independence). A special act of parliament was passed allowing it to
commission foreign officers, it was referred to by some as the British
Foreign Legion. From the beginning it consisted of four battalions although
over the years this number varied as needs dictated peaking at eight during
the Napoleonic period and reducing to two in 1815. In 1824 the remaining
foreigners were drafted out of the regiment, one battalion was converted to
rifles, the other light infantry (the uniform was changed from red to green
as was the norm with rifle regiments). They were renamed the 60th Duke of
York's Rifle corps and Light Infantry which was soon changed to the 60th
Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps and changed again in 1830 to the 60th Kings
Royal Rifle Corps.
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- 1st Bn: Raised as the 2nd in 1755 and served all its time in either
America or the West Indies until 1824 when it was brought to England (the
remaining foreign soldiers were left behind in Canada) The number was
changed to 1st in 1818 when the old 1st was disbanded.
- 2nd Bn: Raised in 1787 as the 3rd, renumbered 2nd in 1818. It was brought
to England in 1830 and also left soldiers on the other side of the Atlantic.
- 3rd Bn: Raised in Dublin 1855.
- 4th Bn: Raised in Winchester 1857.
- 5th Bn: Formerly the Huntingdon Militia Rifles.
- 6th Bn: Formerly the Royal Flint Militia Rifles. Disbanded 1889.
- 7th Bn: Formerly the 2nd Middlesex Royal Edmonton Militia Rifles.
- 8th Bn: Formerly the Carlow Rifles Militia.
- 9th Bn: Formerly the North Cork Militia Rifles.
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- There were also 11 volunteer battalions all based in either London or the
home counties.
In 1966 this regiment was merged with the Rifle Brigade and the
Oxfordshire Light Infantry to become The Royal Green Jackets.
Source: IRISH CAVALRY REGIMENTS
Margaret Emma; married. John Charles
Lloyd, Capt. Carlow Rifles, son. of Major Owen Lloyd, of Rockville, Co.
Roscommon, and had issue of one son,
Source THE WALDRONS OF ILLAWARRA
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