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ARMY RECORDS

(See also Militia Records)
Registers of the in & out-pensioners of the British Army & Militia  Royal Kilmainham Hospital, Dublin

RO Army Records; WO 118
Relates to British soldiers, of any birthplace, who were stationed in Ireland
INDEXES
WO 118 / 39Index to entry book (Vol 36)
Two sequential alpha lists of names with numbers
(Numbers refer to the small number in the top left or right corner of the pages of Vol 36 )
WO 118 / 40 Index to entry book (Vols 8, 9 & 37)
Two sequential alpha lists of names with numbers
(The right hand number would appear to be an index to Vol 37 [1809-1816] which does not
seem to have been filmed The fainter 4 & 5 digit number in the centre refer to Vol 8 & 9
)
WO 118 / 41 Index to admissions (Vol 8 - 12 & 38)
25 September 1816-6 February 1819
(Number in right hand column refers to Vol 38, the number in the third column refers to Vol 8 - 12 )
If no number against an entry, search from the previous number
ENTRY, ADMISSION & EXAMINATION BOOKS
WO 118 / 36 Entry Book Pensions awarded to in & out PensionersJuly 1759-April 1809
Contain dates of admission, regiment and sometimes death
(See vol 39 for an index to these records Film Ireland Gen 7
Numbers refer to the small number in the top left or right corner of the pages of Vol 36)
WO 118 / 35 Pensions re-assessed, Kilmainham Hospital,
22 July 1807-26 August 1807 (Nos1 - 948)  (no index)
Film Ireland Gen 7
WO 118 / 38 Entry Book & Admissions to in & out Pensioners
September 1816-February 1819
Names alphabetical within regiments
(See vol 41 for an index to these records Film Ireland Gen 7 )
Film Ireland Gen 8
WO 118 / 8 Soldiers admitted Kilmainham
31 January 1816-26 June 1816 (Nos 9,226 - 10,742)
(See WO 118 / 40 Index to admissions Film Ireland Gen 7 )
WO / 118 / 9 Soldiers admitted Kilmainham
31 July 1816 - 30 April 1817  (Nos 10,743 - 12,259)
(See WO 118 / 40-41 Index to admissions Sept 1816-Feb 1819 Film Ireland Gen 7 )
Film Ireland Gen 9
WO 118 / 10 Soldiers admitted Kilmainham
April 1817-November 1817 (Nos 12,260 - 13,771)
WO 118 / 11 Soldiers admitted Kilmainham
November 1817 - November 1818 (Nos 13,772-15,240)
WO 118 / 12 Soldiers admitted Kilmainham
November 1818 1816 - February 1819 (Nos 15,241-16,270)
(See WO 118 / 41 Index to admissions Sept 1816-February 1819 Film Ireland Gen 7 )
Film Ireland Gen 10
WO 118 / 42 Entry Book & Admissions to in & out Pensioners
February 1819 - June 1821 (Nos1 - 1930)
WO 118 / 43 Entry Book & Admissions to in & out Pensioners
June 1821 - November 1822 (Nos 1931 - 3863)
WO 118 / 44 Index February 1819 - October 1822 (Nos1 - 3860)
Film Ireland Gen 11
WO 118 / 13A list of invalided Soldiers to be placed on the Out Pension of Chelsea Hospital
formerly admitted to Kilmainham Hospital and transferred to Chelsea in consequence of
overseas service in the British Colonies or Garrisons 20 January 1819 - 25 September 1822
(no index or identifying numbers)
WO 118 / 14 British Soldiers examined for Pension
22 November 1822 - 17 December 1823 (no index or identifying numbers )
WO 118 / 15 British Soldiers examined for Pension
January 1824 - December 1825 (no index or identifying numbers )
WO 118 / 16 British Soldiers examined for Pension
January 1826 - April 1828 (no index or identifying numbers )
Film Ireland Gen 12
WO 118 / 17 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
May 1828 - December 1831 (no index or identifying numbers )
WO 118 / 18 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
January 1832 - January 1834 (no index or identifying numbers )
WO 118 / 19 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
January 1835 - January 1837 (no index or identifying numbers )
Film Ireland Gen 13
WO 118 / 20 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
February 1837 - March 1840 (no index or identifying numbers )
WO 118 / 21 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
April 1840 - December 1841 (no index or identifying numbers )
Film Ireland Gen 14
WO 118 / 22 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
January 1842 - December 1845 (no index or identifying numbers)
Film Ireland Gen 15
WO 118 / 23 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
January 1846 - December 1848 (no index or identifying numbers )
WO 118 / 24 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
January 1849 - November 1849 (no index or identifying numbers )
Film Ireland Gen 16
WO 118 / 25 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
31 December 1849 - December 1850 (no index or identifying numbers )
WO 118 / 26 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
December 1850 - December 1852 (no index or identifying numbers )
Film Ireland Gen 17
WO 118 / 27 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
31 December 1852 - December 1854 (no index or identifying numbers )
WO 118 / 28 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
December 1854 - July 1856 (46 - 7752) (no index)
WO 118 / 29 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
July 1856 - December 1856 (8349 - 13,803) (no index)
WO 118 / 30 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
December 1856 - December 1857 (14,216 - 20,112) (no index)
Film Ireland Gen 18
WO 118 / 31 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
December 1857 - December 1859 (20,297 - 27, 458) (no index)
WO 118 / 32 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
December 1859 - April 1861 (27,649 - 34,942) (no index)
WO 118 / 33 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
May 1861 - November 1861 (35,892 - 41,263) (no index)
WO 118 / 34 Soldiers examined for admission to Pension
December 1861 - April 1863 (41,879 - 50,514) (no index)
Film Ireland Gen 19
Irish Army Lists 1661-1685
His Majesty’s Army of Ireland 11 February 1661
List of Commissioned Officers of Horse in Ireland May 1661
Muster Rolls May 1662
Commissions signed by Duke of Ormonde at Dublin Castle 28 July 1662
The Regiment of Irish Foot Guards
Commission to Companies of Foot signed by the Duke of Ormonde 28 July 1662
Commissions 1663 Quarters for His Majesty’s Army of Ireland 23 September 1663
Officers suspended for absence without leave
A list of Officers received into his Majesty’s Army in Ireland April 1663-1665
A list of Commissioned Officers of his Majesty’s Army in Ireland 26 November 1664
A list of Fortifications and the sums of money they cost in building and repairing
Commissions 1665
Commissions 1666
Companies garrisoning Kinsale Fort in June 1666
A list of the Quarters of the Army 4 May 1667
A list of the Officers and Soldiers of the King’s Guard of Horse 11 October 1667
The King’s Warrant for the appointment of Marshal-General of the Army 1667
A list of the Quarters of the Army 20 April 1668
Royal Warrants and Letters
A list of the Captains of Horse and Foot as they are Regimented and Quartered 27 August 1670
Irish Commissions signed in England by Charles II, 1672
List of Commission Officers in Ireland, 1672
Commission for command of a Troop granted by the Earl of Essex, 1672, to Capt Richard Talbot
Quarters of the Troops and Companies in Ireland
A list of the Officers of Horse and Foot disbanded in the year 1672
Companies of the Earl of Tyrone’s Regiment which served with the English Fleet, 1672
Companies of the Duke of Buckingham’s Irish Regiment which served with the English Fleet, 1672
Officers from the Irish Establishment sent to serve in the King of France’s Army
Revocation to Lord Berkeley
Irish Commissions signed in England, 1673
Irish Commissions signed in England, 1674
Instructions from Charles II to the Earl of Essex relating to the Army in Ireland, Companies from the English
     Establishment added to the King’s Army in Ireland, 1674
King’s letters and warrants
The Commissioned Officers of the King’s Army in Ireland 22 March 1675
Commissions granted by the Earl of Essex, 1675
'An Establishment, or List, containing all the payments for Military Affairs, 1676'
King’s Letter in favour of Capt John Trelawny
The Irish Foot Guards, 1676
Muster Roll of the King’s Guard of Horsemen, August 1677
Gentlemen’s names in the Regiment of Irish Foot Guards
A list of the Troops of Horse in Ireland 22 August 1677 and the Foot Guards etc
Commissions signed by the Duke of Ormonde, 1677-1678
List of Colonel Thomas Dongan’s Regiment of Foot raised in Ireland for the Service of Louis XIV
Troops and Companies in Ireland, 1678
A list of all the Commissioned Officers that are or have been of his Majesty’s now Royal Regiment of
     Guards in Ireland to the 21 day of June, 1678
'The Earl of Dumbarton’s Regiment of Foot according to the Muster taken at their arrival at Kinsale, April 1679'
Officers of his Majesty’s Army in Ireland and Quarters, 10 July 1680
Troop of Horse for Tangier under the Earl of Ossory
Names of Officers Serving in Ireland, in 1680, who subsequently received the Royal Bounty for wounds
     received at Tangier
Military appointments in Ireland ordered by Charles II Irish
Commissions signed by Charles II
Troops and Companies in Ireland, 25 June 1682
Muster of four English Companies, lately arrived in Ireland from Tangier, taken 14 April 1684
Four reduced Companies from the Queen’s Regiment of Foot in England added to the
     Standing Army of Ireland, August 1684
An Abstract of Commissioned Officers at present in his Majesty’s Army in Ireland, who served in the Army
     in 1659 before his Majesty’s Restoration, with an account of what capacity they then served in
     The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, 1684
Appointments in the Army of Ireland ordered by the King
The Army in Ireland at the time of the death of Charles II
Appendix 
Index.
CD
Army List – January 1776 (Dublin Edition) 
Includes the following:
Fifth (or Royal Irish) Dragoons, Ireland, p 33
Sixth (or Inniskilling) Regiment of Dragoons, p 34
Eighth (or The King’s Royal Irish) Regiment of Light Dragoons, Ireland, p 36
Twenty-seventh (or Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot, America, p 81
Succession of Colonels in:
5th Royal Irish, p 222
6th Inniskilling, p 222
8th (King’s Royal Irish Light) Dragoons, p 223
18th Royal Irish, p 227
27th Inniskilling, p 228
Royal Irish Artillery, p 232.
fiche England Gen 257
Royal Munster Fusiliers Militia History, Roll of Officers, 1793-1905.
Formally South Cork Light Infantry Militia
fiche Irl 51
Regimental Records of the Third Battalion.
Royal Munster Fusiliers Militia History, Roll of Officers, 1793-1905
Formally South Cork Light Infantry Militia
fiche Irl 51
Annual lists of field officers of Regiments in Ireland, 1730-1761. 
Film Irl Gen 29

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