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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Fusiliers Royal Fusiliers] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Fusiliers Royal Fusiliers] Wikipedia
*[http://rrflondon.2day.ws/siteFiles/files/RRFLondon_IndiaGeneralServiceMedalUmbeyla_1246526209.pdf India General Service Medal 1854-1895] Website of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, London Museum. Article gives details of conflicts and medal roll.  
*[http://rrflondon.2day.ws/siteFiles/files/RRFLondon_IndiaGeneralServiceMedalUmbeyla_1246526209.pdf India General Service Medal 1854-1895] Website of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, London Museum. Article gives details of conflicts and medal roll.  
*[http://rrflondon.2day.ws/siteFiles/files/RRFLondon_AfghanWar2ndMedalRoll_1246526321.pdf 7th Royal fusiliers, Second Afghan War] Website of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, London Museum. Article gives details of conflicts and medal roll.  
*[http://rrflondon.2day.ws/siteFiles/files/RRFLondon_AfghanWar2ndMedalRoll_1246526321.pdf 7th Royal fusiliers, Second Afghan War] Website of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, London Museum. Article gives details of conflicts and medal roll.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071214220218/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/007RFus.htm The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216143609/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/007-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216215907/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/007-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2000-06/0959853039 post] is about the Cholera epidemic in the Regiment in 1869 at Saugor, in Central India, with quotes from the book  ''A Soldier’s Experience: ... showing the price of war in blood and treasure ... By one of the Royal Fusiliers'', [Timothy Gowing] published c 1883 , available at the [[British Library]].  There is an edition published  by Leonaur in 2010 as ''Gowing of the Royal Fusiliers''


[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Revision as of 02:39, 24 February 2011

Also known as The Royal Fusiliers

History

  • 1685 raised as the Ordnance Regiment by Lord Dartmouth
  • 1751 became 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers)
  • 1881 became The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
  • 1968 amalgamated with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (5th Foot), The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers (6th Foot) and the Lancashire Fusiliers (20th Foot) to form 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

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