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... two years apart form a short spell in Aden. The three other regiments involved are the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) and the Lancashire Fusiliers. The new regiment will have a rich heritage. The lineage of its ...

Published: Friday 30 April 1993
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 247 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

Fusiliers’ band entertains schoolchildren

... County Secondary School ball was packed yemr-‘ day morning for a per!onmnce‘ by the military band of the sth, Battalion Royal Fusiliers. | The Fusiliers got off to a rousing start with Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, and this was followed ...

Published: Friday 24 May 1968
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Regiment’s history for the Duke

... Regiment since it was formed by the controversial amalgamation of four Fusilier regiments on St George'’s Day 1968 - the Royal Fusiliers, the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and the Lancashire Fusiliers as well as the Royal N(_)rthumberland Fusiliers. It is ...

Published: Thursday 10 May 2001
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 373 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE VICTORIA CROSS

... other men of the storming party. Lieut. William St. Lucien Chase, Bombay Staff Corps, and Private James Ashford, the Royal Fusiliers, for conspicuous gallantry on the occasion of the sortie from Kandahar, on Aug. 16, 1880, against the village of )eh Khoja ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1881
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

“Wor Jackie”

... the usual side shows, tnere will be a wheel of fortune, Punch and Judy, tombola and a fortune teller. . The Band of the Royal Fusiliers and a Naval cadet band marching display figure among the military events and the day will be rounded-off ‘with a Naval ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1968
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

7 MATFEN HALL The Northumberland Cheshire Home presents Northumberland's BIGGEST EVER GARDEN FETE on SATURDAY, ..

... Stamfordham) Northumberland Official opening at 2 p.m. by T.V. STAR — 808 MONKHOUSE Terrific attractions: 1. BAND OF THE ROYAL FUSILIERS 2. NAVAL CADETS’ BAND MARCHING DISPLAY 3. RAF, HELICOPTER RESCUE DISPLAY 4 NAVAL SUNSET CEREMONY 5. JACKY MILBURN—BEAT ...

Published: Friday 12 July 1968
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 98 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE 7th Battalion The Royal Northqmberhnd Fusiliars (TA) have been active dum:fi geen,t weekends. On the last ..

... churned up the range tracks. Simultaneously Berwick and Alnwick Companies were hosts to the Bth (City of London) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (TA), About 40 Londoners travelled up overnight on Friday for a joint exercise. The narrative said that the Royal Nor ...

Published: Friday 11 November 1966
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 292 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

M.P. attends Tory dance at Wooler

... Fusiliers. *This new regiment incorporates The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), and XX The Lancashire Fusiliers, A statement issued by the Colonels of the four regiments says: ...

Published: Friday 20 October 1967
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 688 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BRIGADE CLOCKS UP

... later the Lancashire Regiment, there was also a regiment established in 1685 which became the 7th Regiment of Foot or the Royal Fusiliers. (City of London Regiment). The sth Northumberland Regiment saw service in South America in 1807, Portugal in 1809 and ...

Published: Friday 11 July 1997
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 442 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

GOLDEN DAY FOR ALNWICK COUPLE

... bowling ciub, ' He bad a four-year spell with the Army in France in the 1914. 18 war, First with the Northumberland (now Royal) Fusiliers, then with the Royal Engineers, They have one married daughter, . ...

Published: Friday 03 December 1965
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NEW ROLE FOR TERRITORIALS

... This Volunteer Company is one of four companies forming the Fusilier Volunteer Battalion. The others are based on the Royal Fusiliers in London, Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers in Coventry and the Lancashire Fusiliers in Bury They are being equipped up to ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1966
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 413 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

GOLDEN DAY: ON Arrll S, 1947, St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Alnwick, was the scene of the wedding of Rita

... Tom, a member of the TA in 1938, was called to full service three days before the declaration of war. A member of the Royal Fusiliers, he was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942. After demob his trade as motor mechanic and driver btoghl him employment ...

Published: Friday 04 April 1997
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 281 | Page: 6 | Tags: none