Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in a parade on the Mall in London in 2008

Last march of the second battalion through Celle before withdrawing in August 2012

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is an infantry - regiment of the British Army . It belongs to the Queen's Division and was used in both the Second Gulf War and the Third Gulf War as well as the Afghan War .

description

The regiment consists of one battalion from the Regular Army and one battalion from the Army Reserve. The regular first battalion with about 700 soldiers in the county of Wiltshire is equipped with the armored personnel carrier Warrior as mechanized infantry . The fifth battalion (reserve) reinforces the first battalion if necessary. They report to the 1st Armored Infantry Brigade .

history

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers took over the tradition of the London fusiliers and their headquarters in the Tower of London . This regiment was founded in 1685 to protect the artillery then housed there . Today the headquarters and the regimental museum are located there. The blue badge color of all royal infantry regiments is worn by the regimental band with the red parade uniform. The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers has existed since an army reform in 1968. It was merged from four English fusilier regiments:

• The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
• The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers
• The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
• The Lancashire Fusiliers

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and its predecessors participated in almost every war the United Kingdom fought. In recent years these have been missions in the Balkans, Cyprus, Afghanistan and Iraq (1991 and from 2003).

His second battalion with around 600 soldiers, which was stationed in Celle in Lower Saxony until July 2012, was merged with the first battalion as part of Army 2020 .

Lines of tradition

1880	Childers Reforms 1881	Renaming	Defense White Paper 1966
5th (Northumberland) (Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot	The Northumberland Fusiliers	1935: The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers	The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
6th (Royal First Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot	The Royal Warwickshire Regiment	1963: The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers
7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot	The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot	The Lancashire Fusiliers

See also

• Lee Rigby murder case

Individual evidence

1. ^ British soldiers leave Celle in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 5, 2012
2. ↑ Troop withdrawal: A farewell forever at: ndr from July 6, 2012 ( Memento from February 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ ^{a b} Childers Reform . In: The London Gazette , Government of the United Kingdom, July 1881, pp. 3300-3301. Retrieved October 27, 2016. 

Web links

Commons : Royal Regiment of Fusiliers  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• UK Ministry of Defense website
• Website of the regimental museum