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After the war, the 1st Battalion returned to India from Burma. After a stay in Hong Kong, the regiment fought in the Malayan Emergency against pro-independence and communist guerrillas known as the Malayan National Liberation Army. In 1948 both regular battalions were amalgamated as the 1st Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. [32]
Again in 1944, the BBC recorded the 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Pipes & Drums playing Killaloe, by then adopted unofficially as the march of the 38th (Irish) Brigade, during the approach to Monte Cassino. Killaloe was adopted by the Royal Irish Rangers on its formation and again later by the Royal Irish Regiment on its ...
The 23 Parachute Field Ambulance, 1 Parachute Logistic Regiment and the band of the 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment subsequently provided protection for Government buildings and officials as well as assisting the Bermuda Police. The 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was briefly despatched to Bermuda at the request of the local ...
1881: 1st Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers: Royal Irish Regiment: 28: 28th Regiment of Foot 1751–1782 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1881 [57] 1694 Raised as Sir John Gibson's Regiment of Foot 16 February 1694, disbanded 1697. Reraised 12 February 1702 [57] 1881: 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment [57 ...
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.
The Prince of Wales's Own Donegal Militia was an Irish Militia regiment raised in County Donegal in 1793. It saw action during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and served in home defence through the major wars of the 19th Century, It later became a battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers but was disbanded in 1908.
7th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 6th Battalion, Connaught Rangers: 1st Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers: 8th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 7th Battalion, Leinster Regiment: 8th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers: 7th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers 8th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers: 9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers