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Authors
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T.F.
Mills |
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Page
created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
14.07.2006
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The
Royal Munster Fusiliers
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United
Kingdom
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1881.07.01 |
The
Royal Munster Fusiliers
organised as the county regiment of Clare,
Cork, Kerry and Limerick, encompassing its Militia infantry
[see below] and uniting two regular battalions: |
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1922.07.31 |
disbanded |
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[combined
battle honours of 101st Regiment
and 104th Regiment, plus:]
Masulipatam1,
Badara1,
Carnatic2,
Rohilcund
17943, Burma
1885-87, South
Africa 1899-1902
Great War [11 battalions]: Retreat
from Mons, Marne
1914, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt,
Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18,
Albert 1916, Bazentin, Pozières, Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette,
Morval, Messines 1917, Passchendaele, St. Quentin, Bapaume
1918, Rosières, Avre, Arras 1918, Scarpe 1918, Drocourt-Quéant,
Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir,
Cambrai 1918, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18,
Italy 1917-18, Kosturino,
Struma, Macedonia 1915-17, Helles,
Landing at Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar
Hill, Gallipoli 1915-16,
Egypt 1916, Gaza,
Jerusalem, Tell 'Asur, Palestine 1917-18
5th Battalion (Royal Limerick
County Militia): Mediterranean
1901
1. awarded
1894 for service of 101st Regiment.
2. awarded 1889 for service of 101st
Regiment in 3rd Mysore war.
3. awarded 1894 for service of 104th
Regiment.
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Badges: |
A Shamrock. The
Royal Tiger |
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Uniform: |
1881-1922:
scarlet; facings: blue
headdress:
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1881 |
[1st Bn:]
Gen. Corbet Cotton |
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1881 |
[2nd Bn:]
F.M. Sir
Frederick Paul Haines, GCB, GCSI, CIE [also R Scots
Fus; QMG 1870-71; C-in-C Madras 1871-75; C-in-C
India] |
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1890.10.05 |
Gen. William Richard Preston [also
Q O R West Kent Regt] |
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1892.04.07 |
Gen. Henry Meade Hamilton, CB [also
Leinster Regt] |
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1895.05.17 |
Lt-Gen. Robert Stuart Baines
[also King's Regt] |
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1899.03.26 |
Lt-Gen. William Rickman |
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1900.08.23 |
Lt-Gen. JohnWimburn Laurie, CB |
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1912.05.21 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles, GCB,
GBE, CVO [to 1922] |
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Motto: |
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Nicknames: |
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Anniversaries: |
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Freedoms: |
[none?] |
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Marches: |
quick:
The British Grenadiers |
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St. Patrick's
Day |
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1st Bn: Won't
You Come Home to Bom-Bombay |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
Irish wolfhound ("Garry")
[1915-1922] |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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