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Re: looking for details on the 42nd dragoons
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 14 February 13 01:03 GMT (UK) »
The Belfast News-Letter, Tuesday, April 9, 1878.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS.
The three troops of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons, which have been stationed in Belfast for the last two years, left their quarters in the military barracks, North Queen Street, yesterday, to embark for Liverpool, en route for York. The 4th Dragoons, as they are familiarly termed, came to Belfast from Dublin. They were under the command of Captain J. S. Bates, Captain Charles H. Currey, Captain Ibbetson, Lieut. Penton, and Lieut. Abdy. …………..

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