London Irish Rifles Sgt Stripes help

[pettsy]

Hi scrimnet

I wil contact them this evening.
Thank you.

Pettsy

[Combover]

I'm going to apologise now for the thread resurrection but have noticed a few unanswered questions regarding the LIR so here goes:

The LIR wore Black on Rifle Green stripes. All of their rank insignia was this colour combination and is very distinctive.

The best place to get them from is monty's locker. http://www.montyslocker.co.uk/

He uses the correct cloth and is licensed by the MOD to do it.

As a WW2 LIR re-enactor, I portray a Serjeant and have done heaps of reserch so if there's anything I can help you with, please PM me.

Best wishes all,

Tom

[Kelly/Parker]

Thanks for that Tom. My Grandfather (Mum's side) was in London Irish Rifles in WW1 2/18th ended up being disbanded out in Jerusalem I believe. I do have a photo of him with a lot of other men. Unfortunately no names, apparently like many other he never spoke about the war  according to Mum.

[Combover]

Morning.

Unfortunately despite their fancy name, the LIR weren't really considered anything special by WW1/WW2 (They were of course, as were ALL our fighting men and women) so unless photos were annotated by the person who took them (and in the case of Army photographers, they were) then there will be no record of who they were or what the were doing at the time...

It's an unfortunate fact that there were that many people fighting and dying, nobody thought the average Tommy was a special case... It's an even more unfortunate fact that many didn't want to or were unable to talk about it. It's just not when men of the time did.

[scrimnet]

I'm going to apologise now for the thread resurrection but have noticed a few unanswered questions regarding the LIR so here goes:

The LIR wore Black on Rifle Green stripes. All of their rank insignia was this colour combination and is very distinctive.

The best place to get them from is monty's locker. http://www.montyslocker.co.uk/

He uses the correct cloth and is licensed by the MOD to do it.

As a WW2 LIR re-enactor, I portray a Serjeant and have done heaps of reserch so if there's anything I can help you with, please PM me.

Best wishes all,

Tom

Derrick is an old Scaley Back and is indeed the best around now...

So, you do LIR?? Not part of The Rifles LHS then?? With Lawrence and co??

[Combover]

I'm not, no. I run my own WW2 group.

[Combover]

A bit late in coming but here you go. Here is the insignia of a Serjeant of the 1st Battalion London Irish Rifles, 56th London Division in WW2. The cloth rank insignia was very similar for WW1.



And below is the insignia of an officer, a 2nd Lt, of the same regiment:



Quite distinctive insignia isn't it?

[jc26red]

Ooooh I'm pleased this thread has been bought to the top again, I must have missed it first time round.

Hi Kelly/Parker, my father in law's cousin was in th London Irish Rifles 2/18th.  And I would love to see a copy of the photo you have. 
Austin Creed survived WW1...just! He was injured but sadly died of TB 4 July 1920, unmarried. We have his medals apart from his SWB but no photo.  He too was born in Fulham and lived in Hammersmith, sadly the family home was bombed out during WW2.

I will send you a pm
best wishes
Jenny 

[Kelly/Parker]

Jenny, I have just been going over old entries that I made on various sites and have come across this one. Did I ever send you a copy of the photo? Julie