1881.07.01 The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
organised as the county regiment of Fermanagh, Londonderry, Tyrone and Donegal, encompassing its Militia infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions:
1st Battalion, redesignation of 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot
2nd Battalion, redesignation of 108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry)

1922 Donegal lost from the Regimental District by the independence of Ireland
1924.04.14 formed one corps with The Royal Irish Fusiliers without change of title
1937 reconstituted as a separate corps
1968.07.01 united with The Royal Ulster Rifles, and The Royal Irish Fusiliers, to form
The Royal Irish Rangers

Battle Honours.

[combined battle honours of 27th Regiment and 108th Regiment, plus:]
Martinique 17621, Havannah1, St. Lucia 17781, South Africa 18352, 1846-472, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902

The Great War [12 battalions]: Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914 '17, Armentières 1914, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Guillemont, Ginchy, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Ypres 1917 '18, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Hindenburg Line, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, 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

The Second World War: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, North-West Europe 1940, Two Tree Hill, Bou Arada, Oued Zarga, Djebel Bel Mahdi, Djebel Tanngoucha, North Africa 1942-43, Landing in Sicily, Solarino, Simeto Bridgehead, Adrano, Centuripe, Simeto Crossing, Pursuit to Messina, Sicily 1943, Termoli, Trigno, San Salvo, Sangro, Garigliano Crossing, Minturno, Anzio, Cassino II, Massa Tambourini, Liri Valley, Rome, Advance to Tiber, Trasimene Line, Monte Spaduro, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45, Middle East 1942, Yenangyaung 1942, Donbaik, Burma 1942-43

1. awarded 1909 for services of 27th Regiment.
2. awarded 1882 for services of 27th Regiment.

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
1881 Hong Kong
1883 Straits Settlements & Singapore
1886 South Africa
1889 England: Dover
<1892> Portsmouth
1893 Ireland: ?
<1897> Kinsale
1899.10 South Africa 5 Bde
1902 Ireland: Londonderry
1907 Crete & Malta
1911 China
1913 India: Mhow
1914 Trimulgherry
1915.01 Trimulgherry 29 Div
1915.03 Gallipoli
1916.03 France and Flanders
1918.02 France and Flanders 36 Div
1919 UK ?
1921 India: Sialkot
1922 Iraq
1925 England: Shorncliffe 10 Bde
1927 Northern Ireland
1933 Aldershot 3 Bde
1935 Malaya
1938.10 India: Madras
1939.09 India: Madras
1942.03 Burma
1943.07 India
1945.08 India
1948 Hong Kong
1949.08 (Malaya)
1949.09 Hong Kong
1949 West Indies
1951.04 England: Dover 39 Bde
1951.12 Egypt : Suez Canal Zone
1953.09 Kenya
1955.06 England: Warminster School of Infantry
1957.12 Germany: Berlin
1959.02 Germany: Wuppertal
1960.01 Kenya (det in Bahrein)
1961 (Kuwait)
1961 Kenya (det in Bahrein)
1962 England: Gravesend
1964.02 Cyprus UN
1964.10 England: Gravesend
1965.09 Germany: Berlin
1967.10 England: Worcester
1968.07.01 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th)
redesignated upon formation of "large" regiment from North Irish Brigade
1968.04 Bermuda (B Coy)
1968.11.23 disbanded at Worcester and concurrently re-formed by renumbering 3rd Battalion at Catterick
1968.12 England: Catterick
1970 Germany: Hemer 6 Armd Bde
1974.07 England: Warminster Inf Demo Bn
1976.09 Cyprus
1977 England: Tidworth 8 Field Force
1979.07 Berlin Berlin Bde
1981.11 England: Chester 42 Bde
1985 Germany: Osnabrück 12 Armd Bde
1988.09 (Northern Ireland)
1989.02 Osnabrück 12 Armd Bde
1990.07 England: Warminster Inf Demo Bn
1991.07 Cyprus
1992.07.01 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment
1992 Cyprus
1993? UK?
1993.08 disbanded and concurrently re-formed by renumbering 2nd Battalion

Museum of the Royal Irish Regiment, Ballymena (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)