to the Connaught Rangers was included in the new Galway Cathedral, which renders honour to a regiment so long associated with that part of Ireland. There are various memorials to the regiment and its soldiers in St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church in Galway. Battle honours The regiment was awarded the following battle honours: From the 88th Regiment of Foot: Egypt, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onoro, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Central India From the 94th Regiment of Foot: Seringapatam, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, Pyrenees, South Africa 1877-78-79 Second Boer War: Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899–1902 The Great War: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914 '17, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Festubert 1914, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, St. Julien, Aubers, Somme, 1916 '18, Guillemont, Ginchy, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Hindenburg Line, Cambrai 1918, Selle, France and Flanders 1914–1918, Kosturino, Struma, Macedonia 1915–17, Suvla, Sari Bair, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Gaza, Jerusalem, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917–18, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916–18 Victoria Crosses Private Thomas Hughes - First World War, 3 September 1916 Lance Corporal James Murray - First Boer War, 16 January 1881 Sergeant John Danaher - First Boer War, 12 February 1881 (the unit, according to the naming engraved on his duplicate VC see picture; private collection) Regimental Colonels Colonels of the regiment were: 1881–?1889: (1st Battalion): Gen. William Irwin (ex 88th Foot) 1881–1886: (2nd Battalion): Gen. Sir John Thornton Grant, KCB (ex 94th Foot) 1889–1900: Gen. Joseph Edwin Thackwell, CB 1900–1912: Lt-Gen. Sir Edward Hopton, KCB 1912–1922: Maj-Gen. William Liston Dalrymple, CB 1922: Regiment disbanded Great War Memorials Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Dublin. Island of Ireland Peace Park Messines, Belgium. Ulster Tower Memorial Thiepval, France. Menin Gate Memorial Ypres, Belgium. Uniforms and insignia From 1881 to 1914 the Connaught Rangers wore the standard scarlet and blue full dress of British infantry (see illustration above) with green facings. The green collars and cuffs were intended to be a national distinction for infantry regiments recruited in Ireland but the Connaught Rangers was the only one of these not to have a "Royal" title and accordingly the distinction of dark blue facings. The regimental buttons had a harp and crown surrounded by a shamrock wreath. The harp and crown reappeared on cap