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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 ]
Of these 151 went to South Africa reinforcing the 2nd Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers, the remainder were part of the Malta garrison where it guarded Boer prisoners, and received the news that with the raising of the 3rd and 4th regular battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers it was to be temporarily renamed the 5th (Militia ...
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.
It was originally raised as the 8th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, formed as a 2nd Line Territorial Army duplicate unit of the 4th Battalion, just before the outbreak of the Second World War as a motorcycle battalion and served as such in the Battle of France in May 1940.
Includes commissioned officers of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers regiment of the British Army and its predecessor, the 5th Foot. Pages in category "Royal Northumberland Fusiliers officers" The following 108 pages are in this category, out of 108 total.
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 ...
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