This was an Irish regiment created out of the two Jacobite regiments Queen's Guards and Klincarthy in February 1698 by Henry Luttrell, according to Susane. Given the 18th June 1699 to Walter Count Bourke (or Burke) (or Lieutenant-Colonel Raymond Count Bourke according to Kronoskaf WSS). A single battalion strong.
Service:
1702: Army of Italy; combat of Chiari
1702: Defence of Cremona; battle of Luzzara
1703: Combats of Santa Vittoria and San-Benedetto
1704: Sieges of Verceil, Ivrée and Vérue
1705: Battle of Cassano
1706: Siege and battle of Turin
1707: Army of Spain; siege of Lerida
1708: Siege of Tortosa
1710-1712: Army of the Alps
1712: Army of Roussillon
1714: Siege of Barcelona
(Very curiously Kronoskaf's account has the regiment at Oudenarde 1708 and Malplaquet 1709 and later campaigns in Flanders, which does not agree with Susane's account nor that in Hall's volume on the infantry of Louis XIV. Kronoskaf's OOBs for Oudenarde and Malplaquet do not include the regiment.)
1715: Transferred to the service of Spain as the “Regimiento del Principe de Astúrias” (aka “Wachop Infantry”). 1718 renamed Irlanda, then disbanded in 1818.
The uniform in French service is not certain but may have been red with blue facings (as it was later in Spanish service), something like this:
An excellent looking set of flags.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ray. :-) The French Irish flags rarely disappoint...
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David.
These beautiful Irish regimental flags certainly cause those wargaming butterflies to swarm!
ReplyDeleteKind Regards,
Stokes
Thank you, Stokes! :-) It's always good to throw irresistible temptation in people's way. ;-)
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David.
Lovely looking flags David, and an interesting regiment to research.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Donnie. The Wild Geese have a fascination all their own, don't they? :-)
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David.
Lovely flags as always David:)! I do wonder what the 'red hand' might have signified, as obviously you also have it on the Protestant flag with the 'Red Hand of Ulster'?
ReplyDeleteThank you, Steve. :-) Yes, it is indeed the very same Red Hand of Ulster!
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David.
Lovely flags and uniform details David, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWillz.
Thank you, Willz. :-) I hope to have finished and posted the flags of Irish regiment Galmoy before Xmas.
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David.
Very nice David. I shall recreate the regiment in 15mm.
ReplyDelete"Wachop" I guess would have been Wauchope a Scottish Jacobite officer and military comrade of Patrick Sarsfield.
Thank you! Look forward to seeing your troops with the flags. :-)
DeleteYes, indeed, Wachop=Wauchope; found a short bio here: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/ssne/item.php?id=8259
All the best,
David.
Klincarthy is probably Clancarty.
ReplyDeleteYes, not much standardisation of language at that period! :-)
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David.