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The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years. It was known as the 7th Regiment of Foot until the Childers Reforms of 1881.
The Elegant Extracts – 7th Regiment of Foot later Royal Fusiliers and 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry [1] [3] [10] (in 1811, many of the regiment's officers were court-martialled and replaced by officers drawn from other regiments. [35]) Eliott's Light Horse – 15th The King's Hussars [1]
101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) 1861–1881 [170] 1756 Raised 1756 by the Honorable East India Company as the Bengal European Regiment. Came under Crown control in 1858 as 1st Bengal Fusiliers. Made a "royal" regiment and integrated into the British Army as the 101st Foot in 1861. [18] [170] 1881:1st Battalion, The Royal Munster ...
7th Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery - World War II Canadian army unit; 2/7th Armoured Regiment (Australia) - World War II unit; 7th Hariana Lancers - British Indian army unit; 7th Light Cavalry - British Indian army unit; 7th Regiment of Foot, later known as the Royal Fusiliers; 7th Air Reconnaissance Regiment, Yugoslav Air Force unit
He entered the army as an ensign in 1849 and exchanged to the 7th Regiment of Foot (later the Royal Fusiliers) [1] in 1854 during the Crimean War. As a lieutenant at the Battle of the Alma on 20 September 1854, whilst carrying the Queen's Colour he was severely wounded by gunshot through the lower jaw. He carried the bullet in his jaw for ...
Private Mathew Hughes, 7th Royal Fusiliers, was noticed by Colonel Campbell, 90th Light Infantry, on the 7th June, 1855, at the storming of the Quarries, for twice going for ammunition, under a heavy fire, across the open ground; he also went to the front, and brought in Private John Hampton, who was lying severely wounded; and on the 18th June ...
When the 7th Battalion London Light Infantry was redesignated in 1880 as the 7th Battalion Fusiliers, as with many of the units of the Canadian Militia, the regiment chose to model itself like that of its counterpart in the British Army, in this case that of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), itself formerly the 7th Regiment of Foot ...
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