Note 145 — Chapter IX · THE PAUSE IN JULY
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The 10th Division consisted of the following brigades:
29th (Brigadier-General R. J. Cooper)—
10th Hampshire, 6th Royal Irish Rifles, 5th Connaught Rangers, and 6th Leinster.
30th (Brigadier-General L. L. Nicol)—
6th and 7th Royal Munster Fusiliers, 6th and 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
31st (Brigadier-General F. F. Hill)—
5th and 6th Inniskilling Fusiliers, 5th and 6th Royal Irish Fusiliers.
The 5th Royal Irish Regiment were Divisional Pioneers. Only about 60 per cent. of the men in these battalions were Irish, the rest being chiefly North-country miners and Somerset. For the complete list of the battalions in this Division, the Artillery, Engineers, etc., see The Tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli, by Major Bryan Cooper, pp. 2 and 3.