The Royal Tyrone Militia, later the Royal Tyrone Fusiliers, was an Irish militia regiment raised in 1793 for home defence and internal security during the French Revolutionary War, seeing action during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. It was later embodied during all of the UK's major wars. In 1881 it became a battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and during World War I, as part of the Special Reserve, it trained thousands of reinforcements for battalions of that regiment serving overseas. Postwar it retained a shadowy existence until it was formally disbanded in 1953.
The Battle of Vinegar Hill depicted by George Cruikshank in 1845.
Royal Tyrone Militia button; with the 'VR' cypher it must date between 1837 and 1855 when the Fusiliers title was granted. Excavated in Surrey (Portable Antiquities Scheme, FindID 202506).
The officers mess of St Lucia Barracks, built ca 1881.
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers' cap badge used until 1916.
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was an Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1968. The regiment was formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot and the 108th Regiment of Foot.
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Cap Badge
Arthur Cadwgan Michael illustration of a flare lighting up an Ottoman attack on Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers' positions near Achi Baba, Gallipoli
Boer War memorial to the men of the Inniskilling Fusiliers in Omagh
Soldiers of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917
