During November 1916, there was a remarkable assemblage of battalions of The Royal Irish Rifles within a six-mile front near Ypres. Those battalions present were the 2nd, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th. It is probable that eleven battalions from a single regiment spread within six miles of front constitutes a record.