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The Royal Fusiliers (City of London)

 

Ranked as 7th of Foot.

Regulars: 1st Battalion 1685 - 1968

2nd Battalion 1795 - 1948

3rd Battalion 1898 - 1922

4th Battalion 1900 - 1922

1968.04.23 3rd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
redesignated upon formation of "large" regiment from Fusilier Brigade

1992.08.01 amalgamated with 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion

Battle Honours WW1 - 47 Battalions

Mons, Le Cateau, Mons, Marne, Aisne, La Bassee, Armentieres, Ypres, Nonne Bosschen, Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewarde, Hooge, Loos, Somme, Albert, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozieres, Flers Courcelette, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre, Arras, Vimy, Scarpe, Apleux, Messines, Pilckem, Langemarck, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendale, Cambrai, St Quentin, Bapaume, Rosieres, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Amiens, Hindenberg Line, Havrincourt, Epehy, Canal du Nord, St Queantin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France & Flanders, Italy, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli, Egypt, Megiddo, Nablus, Palestine, Troitsa, Archangel, Kilimanjaro, Behebo, Nyangao, East Africa.

Battle Honours WW2

Dunkirk, North West Europe, Agordat, Keren, Syria, Sidi Barrani, Djebel, Tabaga, Peters Corner, North Africa, Sangro, Mozzagrogna, Caldari, Salerno, St Lucia, Battipaglia, Teano, Monte Camino, Garigliano Crossing, Damiano, Anzio, Cassino II , Ripa Ridge, Gabbiano, Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Gothic Line, Coriano, Croce, Casa Fortis, Savio Bridgehead, Valli Commacchio, Senio, Argenta Gap, Italy, Athens, Greece.

Korea 1952 - 1953

 

 

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (London) Museum, London (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

 

Deployment

1st Battalion

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers
1881 Pembroke Dock
<1884> England: Colchester
1884 Gibraltar
1885 Egypt
1888 India: Poona
<1892> Quetta
<1894> Karachi
<1897> Mhow
<1899> Nusserabad
1900 Burma: Mandalay
1902 Lebong
1904 Tibet (four coys)
1904 England: Parkhurst
1909 Ireland: Dublin
1913 Kinsale
1914.09 France and Flanders 6 Div
1915.10 France and Flanders 24 Div
1919 England: Aldershot
1920 Ireland: Killarney
1922.04 India: Jullunder
1925 Landi Kotal
1927 Ambala
1929 Kemptee
1932 Ahmednagar
1934 Delhi
1937 Jhansi 5 Ind Inf Bde, 4 Ind Div
1937.05 converted to MG battalion
1939.09.23 at sea (embarked at Bombay)
1939.10.03 Egypt 5 Ind Inf Bde, 4 Ind Div
1940.12.21 Abyssinia: Sudan 5 Ind Inf Bde, 4 Ind Div
1941.04.13 Egypt 5 Ind Inf Bde, 4 Ind Div
1941.06.08 Syria 5 Ind Inf Bde, 4 Ind Div
1941.06.16 captured by Vichy French in Syria
1941.06.23 re-formed in Palestine
1941.06 Palestine 5 Ind Inf Bde, 4 Ind Div
1941.12.15 Palestine 17 Ind Inf Bde
1942.05.29 Iraq 17 Ind Inf Bde
1943.04.28 Palestine 17 Ind Inf Bde
1943.07.31 Syria 17 Ind Inf Bde
1943.09.24 Italy 17 Ind Inf Bde
1945.06.18 at sea
1945.07 UK
1947 converted back to infantry
1947 Germany: Iserlohn 2 Div, BAOR
1851 Egypt
1952.08 Korea 28 Commonwealth Bde
1953.08 at sea
1953.09 Sudan
1954 UK
1956.10 (Suez)
1956 UK
1958 Persian Gulf
1959 Kenya
1962 Malta
1964 Germany BAOR
1967 Libya/Gibraltar??
1968.04.23 3rd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
redesignated upon formation of "large" regiment from Fusilier Brigade
1958 Libya
1968.06 England: Shorncliff
1970.10 Gibraltar
1971.12 England: Colchester
1972.01 (Northern Ireland)
1972.05 England: Colchester
1972.07 (Northern Ireland)
1972.09 England: Colchester
1973.01 (Northern Ireland)
1973.05 England: Colchester
1974.01 (Northern Ireland)
1974.05 ?
1975.08 (Northern Ireland)
1975.12 England: Catterick 24 Inf Bde
1976.03 (Northern Ireland)
1976.04 England: Catterick
1977.06 Germany: Fallingbostel 1 Armd Div
1977.10 (Northern Ireland)
1978.08 Germany: Fallingbostel 1 Armd Div
1979.11 (Northern Ireland)
1980.03 Fallingbostel 1 Armd Div
1981.08 Northern Ireland: Holywood 39 Inf Bde
1983.03 Fallingbostel 1 Armd Div
1983.03 Berlin Berlin Bde
1985.03 England: Catterick 24 Inf Bde
1988.04 England: Catterick 24 Airmobile Bde
1985.08 (Northern Ireland)
1985.12 England: Catterick
1988.11 Germany: Hemer
1990.09 (Persian Gulf)
1991.04 Hemer
1992.07 Hemer 6 Armd Bde
1992.08.01 amalgamated with 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion

2nd Battalion

1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers
1881 Madras
1882 Cannanore
1884 Bellary
<1889> Madras
1889 England: Woolwich
1893 Guernsey
1895 Ireland: Belfast
1897 Curragh
1899.10 South Africa 6 Inf Bde
1902.09 England: Aldershot
1905.01 India: Lebong
1906 Secunderabad
1908 Jubbulpore
1913 Calcutta
1915.01 Calcutta 29 Div
1915.04 Gallipoli
1916.03 France and Flanders
1919 India
1920 Aden
1922.01 England: Aldershot 2 Bde
1926 Germany Army of Occupation
1929 England: Colchester 11 Bde
1933 Wales: Pembroke Dock
1936 England: Shorncliffe
1939.09 France & Belgium 4 Inf Div, BEF
1940/06 UK
1943.03 North Africa (Tunisia)
1944.01 Italy 12 Bde, 4 Inf Div
1944.12.15 Greece 12 Bde, 4 Inf Div
1948 England?
1948.07.14 disbanded