Let's see if we can up the chaos and bodycount a bit
Have Britain be desperate enough to introduce conscription in Ireland, but also scared/dumb enough to be openly insulting. I.e. have irish conscripts serve in "native" regiments under white - sorry - english officers, and without integral heavy weapons (mgs, mortars).
Eventually open revolt breaks out in Ireland, and when news reaches the continent, some of those regiments mutinies and murders their officers.
This of course leads to full scale clashes with regular units.
There are however many thousand irishmen in regular units, so we may see desertions, fraggings and even small scale assaults on hqs and heavy weapons units.
Have Britain be desperate enough to introduce conscription in Ireland, but also scared/dumb enough to be openly insulting. I.e. have irish conscripts serve in "native" regiments under white - sorry - english officers, and without integral heavy weapons (mgs, mortars).
Eventually open revolt breaks out in Ireland, and when news reaches the continent, some of those regiments mutinies and murders their officers.
This of course leads to full scale clashes with regular units.
There are however many thousand irishmen in regular units, so we may see desertions, fraggings and even small scale assaults on hqs and heavy weapons units.