Regiments Returned from Boer War to Victoria Barracks, Cork

Name: Regiments Returned from Boer War to Victoria Barracks, Cork
Rating: 6.8

Not Rated Documentary

Starring: N/A

Writer: N/A

Release Date:
May 22, 1902

Ratings:
6.8 / 10

Director:
N/A

Companies:
Mitchell & Kenyon

Overview

These slightly weary-looking soldiers, just back from South Africa, were perhaps only temporarily housed in their Cork barracks before a well-earned return home. Despite Irish misgivings, some 30,000 Irish soldiers fought in the Boer War. In a neat lesson in colonial history, the barracks were named after Queen Victoria in 1849 and rapidly re-named 'Collins Barracks' after Irish independence.

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