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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.
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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.
4th/5th/6th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (1967–1968) 8th (1st City of London) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (1958–1961)
The Shiners – Northumberland Fusiliers [1] [10] [58] – from their high standard of spit and polish The Shiny Fourth – 4th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery [ 59 ] The Shiny Seventh – 7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment – being the only red-coated and brass-buttoned battalion in a brigade otherwise uniformed in rifle ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...