'The Battalion marching past', presentation of new colours to the 4th Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers (Kerry Militia), Ballymullen Camp, Tralee, Ireland, 23 June 1904

Photograph, Ballymullen Camp, Tralee, Ireland, 1904, with a newspaper clipping 'The 4th Batt Royal Munster Fusiliers (Kerry Militia)'.

The 4th Battalion march in front of a crowd line during the parade to mark the presentation of new colours to the 4th Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers (Kerry Militia) by Viscountess Castlerosse on the 23rd June 1904. A newspaper at the time described the crowd present at the ceremony as a 'large and fashionable gathering of the people of the town and country'.

Valentine Augustus Browne (1825-1905), Viscount Castlerosse (from 1853) and 4th Earl of Kenmare (from 1871) was made Honorary Colonel of the 4th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1866. His wife, here referred to as 'Viscountess Castlerosse', was Gertrude Harriett Thynne (1840-1913).

From a photograph album compiled by and relating to the career of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Ambrose D'Oyly Goddard (1868-1962), Royal Munster Fusiliers, 1891-1957.