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One of two photographs of the laying up of the colours of the Royal Irish Regiment, St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, 12 Jun 1922. From photograph album of 93 photographs, Royal Irish Regiment, 1856 (c)-1922. 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.