27th Regiment of Foot

The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Chronology

• 1689 raised as local militia at Enniskillen by General Zachariah Tiffin
• 1751 became the 27th (Enniskillen) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 amalgamated with the 108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry) to become The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
• 1968 amalgamated with The Royal Ulster Rifles and The Royal Irish Fusiliers to become The Royal Irish Rangers
• 1991 amalgamated with the Ulster Defence Regiment to form the new The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment).

Deployments

The 1st Battalion went to India after WW1 and was in India in 1920. One member who was attached to a Signals Company died in Malakand on the North West Frontier, perhaps an indication the Battalion was also in this area.

Regimental histories

• The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers: being the history of the regiment from December 1688 to July 1914. Compiled under the direction of a Regimental Historical Records Committee. [With plates, including portraits.] Published 1928.

External Links

• 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
  
• 27th Regiment of Foot www.britishempire.co.uk
  
• Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Wikipedia
  
• Royal Irish Rangers Wikipedia
  
• Royal Irish Regiment Wikipedia
  
• 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
  
• The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers includes deployments British Armed Forces & National Service
  
• The Inniskillings Museum including A Brief History
  
• The Royal Irish [Regiment] Details of Museums and future database for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (27th and 108th Regiments of Foot), the Royal Irish Rifles (83rd and 86th Regiments of Foot) and the Royal Irish Fusiliers (87th and 89th Regiments of Foot). In addition, in time it is intended to include in the database the names of many soldiers who served in what have become known as the Disbanded Irish Regiments, such as the Connaught Rangers, (88th and 94th Regiments of Foot), the Dublin Fusiliers (102th and 103th Regiments of Foot) and the (18th) Royal Irish Regiment. The Leinster Regiment (100th and 109th Regiments of Foot) and the Royal Munster Fusiliers ( 101st and 104th Regiments of Foot) also are part of this category.
  • Imperial Policing The Inniskillings in India.
• Punjab Memorial, Enniskillen, St. Macartin's Cathedral 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers N.W. Frontier, Punjab, 1897-98 "Irish War Memorials"
• Army: The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - 1st Battalion BBC's WW2 Peoples War. The 1st Battalion was at Wellington in India at the outbreak of WW2, and spent the war period in India and Burma.

Historical books online

• The Historical Record of the 27th Inniskilling Regiment by William Copeland Trimble 1876 Archive.org
• The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the World War by Sir Frank Fox. [With plates and maps.] 1928. British Library Digital. Includes the Western Front, Gallipoli, Salonika and Palestine.
• The 1st Division of the Regiment embarks for Calcutta in 1854, page 513, Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal 1870 Part 3 Google Books