YEAR |
MONTH |
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN CLUB HISTORY |
1879 |
January 19th |
Founder’s Birthday |
1915 |
March 4th |
1st Service Contingent (D Coy 6th Bn RIR) leaves island for Ireland to train at Fermoy, Co Cork with the 6th,Bn Royal Irish Regiment. |
1916 |
January 16th |
D Coy 6th Bn Royal Irish Regimenr joined 8th Seaforth Highlanders in Front Line |
1916 |
January 26th |
Major G W Le Page C.O. D Coy 6th Bn RIR Killed in Action (KIA), aged 39 |
1916 |
September 2nd |
The attack on Guillemont village and the Sunken Road was launched. |
1916 |
September 9th |
The attack on Ginchy village commenced. Between 2nd & 9th September 27 men of D Company KIA. |
1917 |
June 7th |
The attack on Wytschaete and the Messines Ridge (3rd Battle of Ypres) – 3 D Company men KIA |
1917 |
August 16th |
Disastrous attack on Langemarck – 3 D Company KIA |
1917 |
November 20th |
Battle of Cambrai – 6th Royal Irish Regiment in support |
1918 |
February 9th |
6th Bn RIR disbanded, 42 D Company Guernseymen transferred to 2nd Bn RIR |
1918 |
March 2nd |
The 42 men of D Company still serving with RIR transferred to 1st Bn RGLI, (the Guernsey regiment/battalion raised by conscription in 1917) |
1919 |
March 31st |
Meeting of survivors at the Imperial Club resolved to found ‘The Royal Irish Regiment Association’ and hold an annual dinner, with Lt-Col Hutchesson as President |
1920 |
January 13th |
Meeting of Royal Irish Association at which the formation of the Guernsey Sporting Club was proposed by the President, Lt-Col Thomas Hutchesson, MC (the Founder) and formally approved |
1920 |
September 13th |
Memorial Service for 74 men of D Company 6RIR at St James |
1920 |
September 13th |
Warwick House officially opened by the Bailiff (Mr – later Sir- Edward Chepmell Ozanne), the Lt-Governor (Sir John Capper) and the Bishop of the Falkland Islands (Rt Rev Norman Stewart de Jersey) |
1921 |
October 21st |
Messrs Bird, Elliott and Eveson in the Royal Court have conveyed to them the title to Warwick House as Trustees for the Club, the purchase price (£783 10s 4d). funded by a grant (£1,070 5s 9d) from the United Services Fund. |
1940 |
January 1st |
Lt-Col Hutchesson dies in Weymouth on way back to Guernsey, aged 60 |
1947 |
April 29th |
Wilfred Bird & Joseph Eveson, survivor trustees of 1921conveyance, grant in the Royal Court Warwick House to Septimus Hanson, Hilary Williams, Albert Senner and John Wilson to hold as Trustees for the Guernsey Sporting Club |
2011 |
March 28th |
Incorporation of the Guernsey Sporting Club as a Company Limited by Guarantee (LBG) with the Guernsey Registry |
2012 |
September 28th |
Final Judgement handed down by the Royal Court, granting to the Guernsey Sporting Club LBG the title to Warwick House. |
2015 |
March 4th |
Centenary of D Company leaving Guernsey for Fermoy to join 6 RIR. Dinner at Bella Luce, Lt-Governor, Bailiff, Chief Minister, Irish Ambassador, Irish Defence Force, relatives of D Company among the guests. |
2015 |
March 8th |
Centenary March from Les Beaucamps to White Rock to commemorate departure of D Company for Fermoy. Colour Party of Irish Defence Force, Military History Company badged as RIR, 200 Cadets, valedictory speech by Bailiff at Les Beaucamps; parade at White Rock, inspection and speech by Lt-Gov. Commemorative Service at Town Church. |
2020 |
September 13th |
Commemoration of Centenary of opening of Warwick House for the Club and its formal dedication ‘Pro Patria’ after memorial service at St James for D Company 6RIR at St James in 1920. Proposed date of dedication of memorial tablet at Les Beaucamps for the Militia Volunteers of March 1915, who served with 6th RIR and 7th RIF and whose survivors founded the Club in 1920. |