1917 - CGG FIRST - First time any CGG member is captured on film overseas during wartime as part of 199th Battalion (Dutchess of Connaught's Own Irish Rangers) CEF - Imperial War Museum

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1917 - CGG FIRST - First time any CGG member is captured on film overseas during wartime as part of 199th Battalion (Dutchess of Connaught's Own Irish Rangers) CEF - Imperial War Museum

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1917 - June - First time any member of CGG is captured on film during wartime overseas as part of 199th Battalion (Dutchess of Connaught's Own Irish Rangers) CEF - Imperial War Museum. [FULL VIDEO PROVIDED IN THE WEBPAGE LINK BELOW] - Source: IWM Film 212 *** STARTS AT MINUTE 7:16 *** This film, held in the Imperial War Museum archive, cpaptures from footage minute 7:16, A tour round Ireland in June 1917 of Canadian 199th Battalion, (Duchess of Connaught's Own Irish Canadian Rangers), under command of Lieutenant-Colonel James Vincent Patrick O'Donahoe, DSO (Late 87th Battalion CGG LCol Commanding). This wartime footage shows no less than 10 CGG members parade as they go through Cork, Belfast, Blarney Castle and Limerick, ending with a sermon preached for them by Cardinal Logue in Armagh Cathedral where the 199th Battalion colours were laid up for the war's duration. 16 CGG Members who served overseas during WWI with the 199th Battalion appear in this footage including: Lieut.-Col Patrick Vincent James O'Donahoe, DSO Capt. Stephen Bateman White Lieut. Goerge Edwin Roberton 177278 O'GRADY, WILLIAM JOSEPH - Transferred from 87th Bn CGG 177333 MITCHELL, ARTHUR - Transferred from 87th Bn CGG 1057191 BROMBERG (Braumburg), HENRY - Transferred from 245th Bn CGG 63053 ADAMS, FRED - Transferred from 1st Regiment / 23rd Battalion CGG 919548 BEECH, James David LCPL - 1st Regt enlisted with 199th Bn but returned to 87th BN CGG 919202 HAMMILL, Thomas Patrick - 1st Regiment enlisted with 199th Bn, KIA with 14th Bn 1918 919362 HAMPTON, William Alfred Henry Bugler - 1st Regiment enlisted with 199th Bn and with CFC 919359 JONES, Frederick Lowther Newton - 1st Regiment enlisted with 199th Bn, KIA with 24th Bn 919239 JONES, Walter Thomas PTE - 1st P.W. Fusiliers Fife & Drum enlisted with 199th Bn and 24th Bn 919721 NEWMAN, Michael Thomas PTE - 1st PWR enlisted with 199th Bn and served with 14th BN 919155 PARROTT, William Stanley SGT - 1st Regiment enlisted with 199th Bn and served with CAPC 919819 STROTHERS, William PTE - 1st Regiment enlisted with 199th Bn and served with 14th Bn. 919777 TOBIN, Charles Percival PTE - 1st PWRF enlisted with 199th Bn and 23rd Res Bn - DOD 1922

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Lieutenant Michael Hayes-Rivet, retired.

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December 13, 2025

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Lieutenant Michael Hayes-Rivet, retired.

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December 13, 2025