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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]
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 ...
On 1 August 1940, [50] it was transferred to the Royal Artillery as the 53rd (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery [51] and transferred to 57th Anti-Aircraft Brigade. It remained as a searchlight regiment in the UK until January 1945.
52nd (Graduated) Battalion, Northumberland 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 ...
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers; Royal Pembroke Fusiliers; Royal Regiment of Fusiliers; Royal Scots Fusiliers; Royal Tyrone Fusiliers; Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers;
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.