The London Gazette of 7 January 1794 stated:

Officers for the Corps raising by Lieutenant-Colonel
Trench. Commissions dated October 31, 1793.
Lieutenant Colonel Eyre Power Trench, from the
38th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant.
Captain the Hon. George Lowry Cole, from the
70th Foot, to be Second Major.

The Regiment was raised in Ireland in 1793 as (Eyre Power) Trench’s Regiment of Foot and was commonly known as the ‘Irish Rangers’. In October 1794 it was numbered as the 102nd Regiment of Foot and in 1795 was stationed in Guernsey. It was a short-lived regiment as it disbanded in 1795 following which its personnel were transferred to the 3rd Regiment of Foot at Southampton.