GENERAL INFORMATION ON RESEARCH

The Connaught Rangers Association does not hold records of individual soldiers and officers who served with the Regiment. All records of Irish soldiers who served in the British army were removed to the UK following the setting up of the Irish Free State. King House Museum does not hold records of any nature and is used as a mailing address for the Association as well as kindly donating rooms for displaying artefacts relating to the Regiment. These service records were stored at the Ministry of Defence in London. Unfortunately, most of the enlisted men’s records were destroyed in the London blitz of the Second World War. Those few that did survive the bombing and subsequent fire damage were removed and are presently stored in the National Archives in Kew in London. However over the last number of years the Association Researcher has been engaged in a mammoth and expensive project trying to index the small percentage of surviving records of men who served with the Regiment.