102nd Regiment of Foot (Irish Rangers)

other units with the same regimental number 102nd Regiment of Foot (disambiguation) 102nd Regiment of Foot (Irish Rangers) 1793–1795 Kingdom of Great Britain United Kingdom Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre Power Trench Commander The 102nd Regiment of Foot was a short-lived regiment of the British Army raised in 1793 and disbanded in 1795. The regiment was raised in Ireland on 31 October 1793 as Trench's Regiment of Foot, and was informally known as the "Irish Rangers". The Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant was Eyre Power Trench.13611 24 11 January 1794 The regiment was numbered as 102nd Regiment of Foot in October 1794, and in 1795 was stationed in Guernsey. The regiment was disbanded at Nursling in 1795 and its personnel transferred to the 3rd (the East Kent) Regiment of Foot at Southampton.T. F. Mills 102nd Regiment of Foot (UK, 1793-1795) http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/102-793.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20071114203004/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/102-793.htm 14 November 2007 7 April 2012 dead dmy-all References Further reading Steve Brown British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815: the "Ephemeral Corps" 1793-1796 The Napoleon Series http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/Britain/Infantry/Regiments/c_ephemeral.html 7 April 2012 18 November 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121118030723/http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/Britain/Infantry/Regiments/c_ephemeral.html dead June 2017 Category:Infantry regiments of the British Army Category:Military units and formations established in 1793 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1795 Category:Defunct Irish regiments of the British Army