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The 5th Battalion was converted to a searchlight battalion on 1 November 1938 as 5th Battalion, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (53rd Searchlight Regiment). [7] At the outbreak of the war, it was assigned to 30th (Northumbrian) Anti-Aircraft Brigade , 7th Anti-Aircraft Division as part of the anti-aircraft defences for the North East . [ 49 ]
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers was an infantry regiment of the British Army.Raised in 1674 as one of three 'English' units in the Dutch Anglo-Scots Brigade, it accompanied William III to England in the November 1688 Glorious Revolution and became part of the English establishment in 1689.
The 17th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers was one of the numerous Pals Battalions formed in the North East of England on Kitchener's call for men during the early parts of the First World War. [1] The battalion was raised by the North Eastern Railway (NER) and was the only pals battalions to be raised by a single company.
Fusiliers: The 7th, 21st and 23rd foot had borne the title of fusiliers for some time before 1751. These regiments had originally been armed with flintlocks (or fusils, from the French), rather than matchlocks. Later, the "fusilier" title was granted as a purely honorary distinction to the 87th Foot in 1827 and to the 5th Foot in 1836.
It became the 5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers in the Territorial Force, serving during the First World War, and then the Territorial Army. It converted to an anti-aircraft role just prior to Second World War , and continued to serve until it was amalgamated in 1950.
7th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (1958–1968) 4th/5th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (1958–1967)
52nd (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers; 53rd (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery; 80th Training Reserve Battalion; 102nd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade; 103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade; 149th (Northumberland) Brigade; 188th (2/1st Northumberland) Brigade; 588th (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Light ...
Northumberland Fusiliers: 16th (Service) Newcastle Newcastle, September 1914 Newcastle and Gateshead Chamber of Commerce: 96th Brigade, 32nd Division [40] [41] 17th (Service) N.E.R., Pioneers: Hull, September 1914 North Eastern Railway: Pioneers, 32nd Division [40] [41] 18th (Service) 1st Tyneside Pioneers Newcastle, 15 October 1914 Lord Mayor ...