Irish commandos information

Two Irish Commandos, volunteer military units of guerrilla militia, fought alongside the Boers against the British forces during the Second Boer War (1899–1902)...

reorganized as Commandos, numbered from 40 to 48, joining the British Army Commandos in combined Commando Brigades. After the war the Army Commandos were disbanded...

the Irish Brigade North Irish Brigade, Infantry Depot M at Omagh Irish commandos, fought with the Boers during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) Irish Guards...

in the Boer commandos and given Transvaal citizenship. The 500 Irish and Irish-Americans fought the British. Often these Irish commandos were fighting...

Its aim was to combat Irish republicanism – particularly the Irish Republican Army (IRA) – and to maintain Northern Ireland's status as part of the United...

To recognise 2 Commando Brigade one of the Commandos was renamed, No44(RM) becoming No40(RM). The Commando was involved in 1947–1948 Civil War in Palestine...

Villebois-Mareuil and the men of the two Irish commandos, the Irish Transvaal Brigade of John MacBride and John Blake, and the Second Irish Brigade of Arthur Alfred Lynch...

41 Commando or No. 41 (Royal Marine) Commando was a unit of the Royal Marines trained as Commandos during the Second World War. They were part of the...

Victoria. Of those who trained the first Australian commandos were renowned British commandos Mike Calvert and F. Spencer Chapman. By halfway through...

Miller, Russell (1981). The Commandos. Time-Life Books. ISBN 0-8094-3399-0. Moreman, Timothy Robert (2006). British Commandos 1940–46. Osprey Publishing...

Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, one...

Cdo's manpower. The three remaining commandos were restyled 40, 42 and 45 Commandos RM in March 1946. The Commando unit was based in Hong Kong between...

Mexican–American War. The Irish Brigade which served on the Union side in the American Civil War in the 1860s Irish commandos in the Boer Army during the...

independent Ireland. Today, the former generally see themselves as British and the latter generally see themselves as Irish, while a Northern Irish or Ulster...

Irish commandos. The Second Irish Brigade was headed up by an Australian of Irish parents, Colonel Arthur Lynch. In addition, small groups of Irish volunteers...

serviceable the blown bridge and the Commandos moved over the canal, supported by tanks of the North Irish Horse. No. 2 Commando advanced north on the lagoon...

Northern Ireland" to protect the Catholic minority from loyalist mobs. The plan called for units of specially trained and equipped Irish commandos to infiltrate...

29 Commando Regiment, Royal Artillery is the Commando-trained unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery, based in Plymouth. The regiment is under the...

Platoon. Initially, the number of commandos in the platoon was 17, trained in Melaghar Camp. From Melaghar, commandos of Crack Platoon headed for Dhaka...

for the Boers instead. Irish miners working in the Transvaal when the war began formed the nucleus of two tiny Irish commandos. The overwhelming public...

Irish nationalists and republicans, who were mostly Irish Catholics, wanted Northern Ireland to leave the United Kingdom and join a united Ireland. The...