FE Wallis: The Royal Irish Rifles

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FE Wallis: The Royal Irish Rifles

Showing the regimental device, and three vignettes respectively depicting an officer of the 83rd Foot (later 1st Battalion RIR) circa 1798, an officer of the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment (later 2nd Battalion RIR) circa 1813, and a Field Officer of the RIR in Mounted Review Order circa 1895, signed FE Wallis
Watercolour 7in. by 10in., in a glazed frame.

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The Duke of Clarence and Avondale was the eldest son of The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII). During the investigation of the Jack the Ripper murders in the early 1890s, there was some suggestion, never remotely substantiated, that he might have been the culprit. His younger brother, the Duke of York, eventually became King George V.