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Title: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: Jack TT on Friday 18 September 20 13:39 BST (UK)
Hi
Can anyone share ANY information on Capt. E P Conway.
I know he was the Adjutant in the 3rd Battalion Kerry Regiment around 1910.
That's all I have!
Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: KGarrad on Friday 18 September 20 14:12 BST (UK)
Did you perhaps mean the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Munster Fusiliers; formerly known as the Kerry Militia?

Royal Munster Fusiliers were formed in the 1881 Childers Reforms, and consisted of 101st Regiment of Foot, 104th Regiment of Foot and various local Militia units from the Province of Munster.

See: https://www.rmfa92.org/history/
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: ShaunJ on Friday 18 September 20 14:15 BST (UK)
He was Edgar Philip Conway per the army list. Adjutant 3rd Battalion,  Royal Munster Fusiliers. The Kerry Militia, as KGarrad says.
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: ShaunJ on Friday 18 September 20 14:17 BST (UK)
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/607062/Major-Edgar-Philip-Conway

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/edgar-philip-conway-24-10tm2l4

Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: Jack TT on Friday 18 September 20 14:34 BST (UK)
Thanks, a wealth of information !!!! I'm going to be busy.
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: MaxD on Friday 18 September 20 15:14 BST (UK)
A number of Great War records on Findmypast.  Served in the Boer War.  MiD here:
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27353/page/5951.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/607062/EDGAR%20PHILIP%20CONWAY/

MaxD
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: Jack TT on Friday 18 September 20 17:12 BST (UK)
Thanks again Max, surprised how much info is on him.
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: Jack TT on Friday 18 September 20 17:18 BST (UK)
Apologies, should have asked earlier, when did the Kerry Militia become the RMF?
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: KGarrad on Friday 18 September 20 20:24 BST (UK)
Quote from: Jack TT on Friday 18 September 20 17:18 BST (UK)
Apologies, should have asked earlier, when did the Kerry Militia become the RMF?

It's in the link I posted earlier ;D

Childer Reforms of 1881.
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: Jack TT on Friday 18 September 20 21:43 BST (UK)
Thanks, I did read that , however there is a photo approx 1910, that refers to Kerry Regt. It has Capt Conway included.
Thanks again.
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: ShaunJ on Friday 18 September 20 23:18 BST (UK)
This is how the 3rd Battalion is described in the 1910 Army List.  "The Kerry Regiment" probably still survived as an alternate name:
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: Jack TT on Saturday 19 September 20 07:49 BST (UK)
Thank-you Shaun.
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: ShaunJ on Saturday 19 September 20 08:42 BST (UK)
Example:

"THE KERRY REGIMENT

Last night the officers of the 3rd Battalion R M Fusiliers (the Kerry Regiment) gave a most successful ball in the barracks, Ballymullen ......."

(Kerry Evening Post, 21 June 1913, page 3)
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: Kiltaglassan on Saturday 19 September 20 09:31 BST (UK)
Another example from the paper:

Kerry Evening Post. - Saturday 10 October 1914, page 2

THE KERRY MILITIA

We understand that the 3rd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers (the old Kerry Regiment) which has been living under canvas in the Barrack Square, Ballymullen for some weeks past, will be removed to Cork at the end of the present month…..

Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: Kiltaglassan on Saturday 19 September 20 09:40 BST (UK)

The Infantry Barracks at Ballymullen near Tralee, Co Kerry.

Via GeoHive
https://bit.ly/3iJA2y4

KG
Title: Re: Kerry Regiment request
Post by: Jack TT on Saturday 19 September 20 10:22 BST (UK)
Must pay that place a visit some day!
Thanks again for all your replies.