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TheCape Town Irish Volunteer Rifles was a volunteer part-time military unit, which existed for a few years in late VictorianSouth Africa. It formed inCape Town in 1885, in response to fears of a war between theUnited Kingdom andRussia (theCape Town Highlanders formed at the same time for the same reason). Thomas O'Reilly, an Irish-born Cape politician, commanded it. Never a large unit, its greatest strength, in 1888, was only 214 (all ranks). In 1891 it was absorbed by theDuke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles.

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