Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 November 2002. Corrected and updated 31.03.2005
1st Battalion,
88th Regiment of Foot
1793-1881
1st Battalion,
The Connaught Rangers
1881-1922
United Kingdom  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
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  1793.09.25 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)
raised in Connaught
  1793 Ireland
  1794 Flanders
  1794 England
  1795 at sea most of regt dispersed in storm
  1795 West Indies (two coys)
  1796 Channel Islands: Jersey regt re-formed
  1799 at sea
  1800 India: Bombay (2 coys at Madras)
  1801? Ceylon
  1801 Egypt
  1803 England: Kent & Sussex
  1805.11 1st Battalion, 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)
redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion
  1806 Cape of Good Hope
  1807 South America
  1808.11 England
  1808 Ireland: Cork
  1809.02.21 at sea (embarked at Cork)
  1809 Spain: Cadiz
  1809.04.13 Portugal: Lisbon
  1808 Peninsular war
  1811.07.11 absorbed 2nd Battalion (less cadre sent to UK to re-form)
  1814 France
  1814.06.15 at sea
  1814 Upper Canada
  1814 American war: Canadian frontier
  1815 France: Valenciennes Army of Occupation
  1816.01 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)
redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion
  1817 England
  1819 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1821 Ireland
  1825 Ionian Islands
  1836 England
  1838 Ireland
  1840 Malta
  1847 West Indies
  1850 Nova Scotia
  1851 England
  1851 Crimea
  1856 England
  1857 India
  1857 Sepoy rebellion
  1858 India
  1870 England
  1876 Ireland
  1877 South Africa
  1877 Kaffir war
  1879 Zulu war
  1879 India
  1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Connaught Rangers
  1881 India: Bengal
  1885 Jullunder
  1890 Aden
  1891.12.14 England: Portsmouth  
  1894 Sheffield MGsec to Sudan 1896
  1897 Ireland: Athlone
  1899.10 South Africa 5 Bde
  1903 India: Mullingar
  1907 Malta
  1908 India: Dagshai
  1910 Ferozepore
  1914.08 Egypt
  1914.10 France and Flanders Lahore Div
  1914.12.05 amalgamated at Le Touret with 2nd Battalion without change of title
  1916.01 Mesopotamia  
  1918.06 Palestine  
  1919 England: Dover  
  1919.11.21 India: Jubbulpur/Solon/Rawalpindi  
  1920.06 mutiny at Jullundur by 88 men in protest of Black & Tan atrocities in Ireland
  1922 England  
  1922.07.31 disbanded