Cape Town Irish Volunteer Rifles
The Cape Town Irish Volunteer Rifles were a volunteer part-time military unit, which existed for a few years in late Victorian South Africa.
The unit was formed in Cape Town in 1885, in response to fears of a war between the United Kingdom and Russia.. Thomas O'Reilly, a prominent Irish-born Cape politician, commanded the CTIVR.
The CTIVR was never a large unit, and in 1891 it was taken over by the Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles.
