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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]
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers formed part of 29th Division, intended for service in the Gallipoli Campaign. Now a captain in the 1st Battalion, he commanded a company during the landing at X Beach on the Gallipoli peninsula on 25 April 1915 and acquitted himself well during the early stages of the fighting. [1]
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 ...
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 ...
Royal Berkshire Regiment; Royal Dublin Fusiliers; Royal Fusiliers; Royal Guernsey Light Infantry; Royal Hampshire Regiment; Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; Royal Irish Fusiliers; Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) Royal Leicestershire Regiment; Royal Lincolnshire Regiment; Royal Munster Fusiliers; Royal Norfolk Regiment; Royal Northumberland ...
Eric Norman Frankland Bell was born on 28 August 1895 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, to Edward Bell and his wife Dora née Crowder, one of four children.His father was an officer in the British Army's Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, serving in Burma at the time of Eric's birth.
Raised 1756 by the Honorable East India Company as the Bengal European Regiment. Came under Crown control in 1858 as 1st Bengal Fusiliers. Made a "royal" regiment and integrated into the British Army as the 101st Foot in 1861. [18] [170] 1881:1st Battalion, The Royal Munster Fusiliers: Disbanded 1922 102
2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment; 15th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier E. O. Martin until 22 January then Brigadier John Yeldham Whitfield [2]) 1st Battalion, Green Howards; 1st Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry; 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster ...