9th (Service) Battalion, (West Belfast), Royal Irish Rifles. Also, 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles.
The 9th (Service) Battalion was formed at Belfast in September 1914 from the Belfast Volunteers.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 306 recorded WW1 deaths for the 9th (Service) Battalion, (West Belfast), Royal Irish Rifles.
BLACKADDER, T. Rifleman, 17/709. 9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Pond Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 24-03-1917. Son of Mrs. A. Blackadder of Tobergill Street, Belfast, Ireland.
GAFFIKIN, George Horner. Major. "B" Company, 9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Bray Vale British Cemetery, Bray-sur-Somme, France. 01-07-1916. Age 30. Son of William & Georgina Gaffikin of King's Castle, Ardglass, County Down, Ireland.
MAHOOD, David Ellis. Rifleman, 9/15540. 9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. St. Quentin Cabaret Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 21-09-1916. Age 22. Son of Joseph & Fannie Mahood of Weir Street, Belfast, Ireland.
8th/9th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 41 recorded WW1 deaths for the 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles.
CAIRNS, Duncan Morrison. Rifleman, 14272. 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, Somme France. 11-12-1917. Age 35. Husband of Charlotte Cairns of Tyne Street, Belfast, Ireland.