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Military records identify individuals who served or were eligible to serve in the armed forces. From 1660 to 1922, the Irish were part of the British armed services. Consequently, pre-1922 records for Irish military personnel are mostly British. See the [[England Military Records|England Military Records]] Wiki article for a more detailed explanation of British military records. | [[Image:Ireland_Military_Tank.jpg|right|190x180px]]Military records identify individuals who served or were eligible to serve in the armed forces. From 1660 to 1922, the Irish were part of the British armed services. Consequently, pre-1922 records for Irish military personnel are mostly British. See the [[England Military Records|England Military Records]] Wiki article for a more detailed explanation of British military records. | ||
The regular army and the navy constituted the major branches of the British military. Militia (part-time units for local defense), fencibles (full-time units for local defense), yeomanry (volunteer calvary units), territorial armies (units raised outside the British Isles for foreign service), coast guard (units that patrol British shores), and royal marines (troop units on ships) were also armed forces. Each of these services kept its own records. | The regular army and the navy constituted the major branches of the British military. Militia (part-time units for local defense), fencibles (full-time units for local defense), yeomanry (volunteer calvary units), territorial armies (units raised outside the British Isles for foreign service), coast guard (units that patrol British shores), and royal marines (troop units on ships) were also armed forces. Each of these services kept its own records. | ||
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Punch, Terrence M. Irish Deserters at Halifax, Nova Scotia, During the Napoleonic Wars 1803-1807. List of Irish desters, complete with age, height and physical description and where they came from in Ireland. Article in The Irish Ancestor, Vol.VIII.no.1.1976, pages 33-35. Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i v7-8. | Punch, Terrence M. Irish Deserters at Halifax, Nova Scotia, During the Napoleonic Wars 1803-1807. List of Irish desters, complete with age, height and physical description and where they came from in Ireland. Article in The Irish Ancestor, Vol.VIII.no.1.1976, pages 33-35. Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i v7-8. | ||
Mossong, Verna. Mid-19th Century Irish Deserters in New Zealand. The list of Irish deserters, taken from the New Zealand Gazette of 1863, shows all those with irish birthplaces, names, army rank and number, age, place and year of enlistment, parish and county of birth, trade, date and place of desertion. 1840-1866. Article in The Irish Ancestor, vol. XI, no.1. 1979. pages 4-9. Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i v10-11. | Mossong, Verna. Mid-19th Century Irish Deserters in New Zealand. The list of Irish deserters, taken from the New Zealand Gazette of 1863, shows all those with irish birthplaces, names, army rank and number, age, place and year of enlistment, parish and county of birth, trade, date and place of desertion. 1840-1866. Article in The Irish Ancestor, vol. XI, no.1. 1979. pages 4-9. Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i v10-11. | ||
'''Navy Records.''' The earliest surviving navy records are from 1617. Ships' logs survive from 1673, but usually only give information on ship location, weather, sightings of other ships, and shipboard events. While descriptions of shipboard events often include individual names, no indexes exist to help locate these names. | '''Navy Records.''' The earliest surviving navy records are from 1617. Ships' logs survive from 1673, but usually only give information on ship location, weather, sightings of other ships, and shipboard events. While descriptions of shipboard events often include individual names, no indexes exist to help locate these names. | ||