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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.
On 18 February 1942, the regiment had a small name change, to become the 53rd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers). [ 7 ] [ 48 ] [ 49 ] By December 1941 the regiment had moved to 43 AA Bde , still in 7th AA Division but now deployed covering Wearside and Teesside . [ 50 ]
The regiments were distinguished by a coloured feather hackle worn behind the badge in some forms of head dress: red and white (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers), white (Royal Fusiliers), or primrose yellow (Lancashire Fusiliers) respectively. From 1960 the Fusilier Brigade was based at St George's Barracks in Sutton Coldfield. [2]
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The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (often referred to as, "The Fusiliers") is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen's Division.Currently, the regiment has two battalions: the 1st Battalion, part of the Regular Army, is an armoured infantry battalion based in Tidworth, Wiltshire, and the 5th Battalion, part of the Army Reserve, recruits in the traditional fusilier recruiting ...
In April 1940, shortly after the start of the Second World War, Cain was given an emergency commission into the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers as a second lieutenant. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] In 1942, he was seconded to 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment before being temporarily promoted to the rank of major in April 1943—a position he would keep ...
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers; Royal Pembroke Fusiliers; Royal Regiment of Fusiliers; Royal Scots Fusiliers; Royal Tyrone Fusiliers; Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers;
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 ...