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He was born on 4 November 1650, crowned on 11 April 1689, died on 8 March 1702 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, London.
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL died,aged 88, on 24 March 1976 at Isington Mill, his home in Isington, Hampshire. After a funeral at St George's Chapel, Windsor, 'Monty' was buried in the Holy Cross churchyard, at Binsted, Hampshire.
Benito Mussolini, il Duce, was captured by partisans in Dongo, Lombardy while attempting to flee to Switzerland, with his mistress Clara Pettachi, and shot. Their bodies were taken to Milan and hung upside down, with others from the regime, suspended from the high girder of an Esso filling station and assaulted by crowds over a number of days.
Barry Edward O'Meara, an Irishman born in Newtown on Sea (now Blackrock), was the senior Navy surgeon on HMS Bellerophron who accompanied Napoleon into exile on St Helena and became Napoleon's personal physician in July 1815. O'Meara was expelled from Longwood house in July 1818 after the Governor, Sir Hudson Lowe, refused to accept his diagnosis concerning Napoleon's declining state of health, believing that O’Meara was being manipulated by the Emperor in an attempt to end his exile by being moved off the island to a more ‘healthy’ location.
She was born on 6 February 1662 and was crowned Queen Anne of the three separate Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland on 23 April 1702. Following the political union of England and Scotland in 1707, she reigned as the Queen of Great Britain and also the Queen of Ireland. Her only surviving child, Prince William, had died aged 11 on 30 July 1700 and Anne, the last of the Stuart dynasty, died on 1 August 1714 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, London.
General Sir John Doyle Bt GCB KC, who raised the 87th Regiment of Foot in 1793, died on this day. Officers marked regimental mourning by wearing a band of black crepe on their left arm for 14 days. The Colonelcy of the Regiment passed not to a disappointed Sir Hugh Gough but rather to Sir Thomas Reynell. Gough did at last succeed Reynell between 1841 and 1855.
The Colonel-in-Chief was born His Royal Highness Prince Henry of York on 31 March 1900 and was the third son to The Duke of York, who later became George V. He joined the Army in 1919 and attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He later served with The King's Royal Rifle Corps and The 10th Royal Hussars before retiring in 1937 from the active service list.
He was appointed Colonel of one of the Inniskilling Regiments of Foot on 20 June 1689 and served with his regiment under William III in Ireland 1689-91, and in Flanders, 1693-96. Tiffin commanded a brigade in Flanders in 1695 but was not promoted Brigadier-General until 1 June 1696. He accompanied his regiment to the West Indies (Antigua) in 1701, where he died on or about 29 August 1702.
He was succeeded on 29 August 1702 by Thomas Whetham, who had been a Major in Stanhope's (11th) Regiment of Foot.
On 23 February 1951, an American unit relieved the 1st Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles from its position on the hills overlooking the River Han.
Being in reserve, the Battalion went southwards to billets in a village near Osan where it remained for nearly two weeks. Training, with particular emphasis on patrolling, took priority as the main activity because intelligence sources at the time believed that the Chinese were about to cross the river southwards in order to outflank Seoul.
On parade were the Colours of the 1st, 2nd and 4th Battalion of The Royal Irish Rangers with marching detachments from the Depot at Ballymena, and 4 and 5 (V) R IRISH. The 350 strong parade exercised the Regiment's rights as Freemen of Belfast and marched down Royal Avenue to St Anne's Cathedral with Colours flying, drums beating and bayonets fixed. The parade, led by the Bugles, Pipes and Drums of 4 (V) R IRISH and the Regimental Mascot Brian Boru III, was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel N J Lefroy, the commanding officer of the Depot.
