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Men of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in France, September 1939. The 1st Battalion was a Regular Army unit stationed in British India on the outbreak of war. It spent the entire war there, fighting in the early stages of the Burma campaign.
The 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot was an Irish infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1689. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 108th (Madras Infantry) Regiment of Foot to form the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1881.
Two soldiers of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Captain Gerald O'Sullivan and Corporal James Somers, were awarded the Victoria Cross for recapturing a trench taken by the Ottomans during a counter-attack. Faik Paşa, known for his bravery and aggressiveness was put in charge of the right wing of the Otto limanne at ...
The 36th (Ulster) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of Lord Kitchener's New Army, formed in September 1914.Originally called the Ulster Division, it was made up of mainly members of the Ulster Volunteers, who formed thirteen additional battalions for three existing regiments: the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Australian soldiers from the 1st Infantry Brigade at Lone Pine, 6 August 1915. ... Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; 1st Battalion, Border Regiment; 88th Brigade:
7/8th (Service) Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (joined June left July 1918) 102nd Machine Gun Company (joined 27 April 1916, moved to 34th Battalion M.G.C. 26 February 1918) 102nd Trench Mortar Battery (joined 18 February 1916, broken up 16 May 1918) After reorganisation in July 1918: 1/1st Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment (joined June ...
Royal Berkshire Regiment; Royal Dublin Fusiliers; Royal Fusiliers; Royal Guernsey Light Infantry; Royal Hampshire Regiment; Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; Royal Irish Fusiliers; Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) Royal Leicestershire Regiment; Royal Lincolnshire Regiment; Royal Munster Fusiliers; Royal Norfolk Regiment; Royal Northumberland ...
After a successful campaign by the Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's), it was agreed that the disbandment would not be of the most junior regiment, but of the two most junior battalions. These were the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, the old 89th Foot, and the 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, the old 108th Foot. The ...