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*'''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,<ref>
CavalryQM. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/156806-royal-inniskilling-fusiliers-1st-bn-in-india-1920/?do=findComment&comment=2472431 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1st Bn. in India 1920] ''Great War Forum'' 10 December 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2019.</ref> 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 ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th_(Inniskilling)_Regiment_of_Foot 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br>
**[http://www.royal-irish.com/stories/imperial-policing Imperial Policing] The Inniskillings in India.
*[http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/html/showMemorial.php?show=293 Punjab Memorial, Enniskillen, St. Macartin's Cathedral] 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers N.W. Frontier, Punjab, 1897-98 "Irish War Memorials"
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/98/a8759398.shtml 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===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor02goog#page/n9/mode/2up ''The Historical Record of the 27th Inniskilling Regiment''] by William Copeland Trimble 1876 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100002346476.0x000002 ''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.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=SHMMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA513 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
==References==
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