2 RIR transfers to 36th (Ulster) Division

Jersey Association Badge.

The 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Rifles, having absorbed what was left of the disbanded 7th (Service) Battalion, was transferred from the 25th Division to the 36th (Ulster) Division near Ypres in preparation for the Battle of Cambrai.

A total of 17 officers and 515 other ranks were absorbed into the 2nd Battalion. Of the original 231 who joined the 7th Battalion from the Jersey Militia in March 1915, 57 had been killed. The ties that exist between the Regiment and the Jersey Old Comrades Association stem from the early days of the First World War when the Jersey Militia volunteered for overseas service and became D Company of the 7th (Service) Battalion The Royal Irish Rifles.