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Photograph of a Royal Irish Regiment polo team, 1895 (c). From photograph album of 93 photographs, Royal Irish Regiment, 1856 (c)-1922. The team includes Lt F L Fobsery, Lt William Hawtrey White, Capt E H E Daniell and Capt Alexander Stewart Orr. The album was presented to the officers’ mess of the 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regiment by Col William Wylly Lawrence on his appointment to command the battalion on 23 July 1893 and returned to his son on the regiment’s disbandment in 1922.