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| Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) |
 | 1793 - 1968
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| | | Titles | | pre 1881 | post 1881 | | 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot | 1st Battalion Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) | | 89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot | 2nd Battalion Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) | | | | | | | Earliest recognised formation: | 87th ; 1793 when raised as the 87th (The Prince of Wales's Irish) Regiment of Foot | | 89th ; 1793 | | | | Motto: | Faugh-a-Ballagh (Clear the way) | | | | Regimental Journal: | Faugh-a-Ballagh | | | | WWI: | Battle Honours; 40 | Victoria Crosses; 2 | Died; 3330 | | WWII: | Battle Honours; 26 | Victoria Crosses; 0 | Died; ??? | | | | Amalgamated: | 1968, With the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the
Royal Ulster Rifles to form The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th) | | |
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| Both Regiments increased to 2 battalions during the final period of the war with France, 1804-16 |
Peninsula War 1808 - 1814 (87th Regiment) Egypt 1801, Java 1811 and the War with America 1812 (89th Regiment) | Military General Service Medal. 1793 - 1814 clasps: | | | | 87th Regiment (2nd Battalion) | | Total Medals | Max clasps | Egypt | Java | Chrystler's Farm | Talavera | Barrosa | Vittoria | Pyrenees | St. Sebastian | Nivelle | Nive | Orthes | Toulouse | | 174 | 8 | - | - | - | 87 | 111 | 102 | 52 | 5 | 60 | 20 | 72 | 69 | | | | 89th Regiment* | | 153 | 2 | 32 | 40 | 85 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | *Java and Egypt to the 1st Battalion, Chrystler's Farm to the 2nd Battalion | | | Battle Honours: (87th) Talavera; Barrosa; Tarifa; Vittoria; Nivelle; Orthes; Tolouse Peninsula. (89th) Egypt; Java; Niagara. |
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Nepal War 1814-16 87th Regiment. | Army of India Medal 1799 - 1826 | | clasp: | | | number: | 54 | | |
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First Anglo-Burmese War 1824-1826 both regiments present. | Army of India Medal 1799 - 1826 | | Regiment: | 87th Regiment | 89th Regiment | | clasp: | | | number: | 195 | 205 | | | Battle Honour: Ava | | |
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Crimean War 1854 - 1856 89th Regiment | Crimea Medal 1854 -56 | | | | Clasp: → | ..none... | | Total Medals | | Number: → | ? | ? | ? | | | | | Battle Casualties; | | Action. | Killed | Died of Wounds | Dangerously
Wounded | Severely
Wounded | Slightly
Wounded | Missing | Total | | Assault on the Quarries | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | | First Attack on the Redan | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | | 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th Bombardments of Sebastopol and Minor Actions. | 3 | 1 | 7 | 25 | 30 | 1 | 67 | | | Grand Total: | 71 | | | Men who served in the Crimea also eligible for: | Turkish Crimea Medal 1855 | | | Battle Honours: Sevastopol. |
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Indian Mutiny 1857 87th Regiment and a detachment of the 89th present | India Mutiny Medal. 1857 -59 | | | 87th Regiment | 89th regiment | | clasp: | ....none.... | | number: | 1082 | 80 | | | | |
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North West Frontier 1858 (Sittana Field Force) detachment 87th Regiment | India General Service Medal 1854 | | clasp: → | | | number: | 37* | | | *Attached to the 70th Foot |
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| 1881: The Regiments now become the 1st and 2nd Battalions, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) |
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Egypt Campaign 1882 1st Battalion | Egypt and Sudan Medal 1882-89 | | | | clasp: | ....none.... | | total medals | | number: | 94 | 694 | 788 | (not corrected for forfeited) | | | Recipients also entitled to a Khedive's Star "1882" | Battle Honours: Tel-el-Kebir |
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Sudan Campaign 1884 2nd Battalion | Egypt and Sudan Medal 1882-89 | | | | clasp: | | | total medals | number: | ? | ? | ? | | | Recipients also entitled to a Khedive's Star "1884" | Battle Honours: Egypt 1882; 84. |
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Ashanti Expedition 1895-96 Detachment of the 2nd Battalion | Ashanti Star 1895-96 | number: | 26 | | | | |
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South African War 1899 - 1902 or "Boer War" 1st & 2nd Battalions. (arrived October and November 1899 respectively, for the duration) | Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902, with or without the King's South Africa Medal 1901 - 1902 | Frequently encountered clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, and South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; also: | | | | battalion: | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | | | clasp: | | | | | | | | number: | ? | 20* | ? | ? | ? | | | | * This entitlement was to the small body of men from the 2nd Battalion that formed a component of Barton’s Fusilier Brigade, together with 1st Royal Welch Fusiliers (1 officer and 25 men), 2nd Royal Fusiliers (27 men), and the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers (1 officer and 25 men). | | | Casualties: | | Officers | NCOs and Men | | KIA & DOW (+DOD) | Wounded | Missing / POW | KIA & DOW | Death from disease | Wounded | Missing / POW | | 1st Battalion October 1899 - end of war | | 2 (+1) | 11 | 16 | 40 | 44 | 96 | 562 | | 2nd Battalion, November 1899 - end of war | | 4 (+1) | 9 | - | 36 | 41 | 148 | 110 | | | Battle Honours: Relief of Ladysmith; South Africa 1899-1902 |
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The Great War 1914 - 1918 (raised 14 battalions; 10 served overseas:- ) | Generally awarded the British War Medal & Victory Medal, most men overseas prior to 1/1/1916 also a 1914 or 1914-15 Star. | | Battalion → | 1 | 2* | 5 | 6** | 7 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 1st
Garrison | 2nd Garrison | | 7/8*** | date of first overseas service.
(first theatre red x ) | 23/8
1914 | 19/12
1914 | 7/8
1915 | 7/8
1915 | ?/2
1916 | ?/2
1916 | ?/10
1915 | ?/7
1918 | ?/2
1916 | ?/8
1916 | | France & Flanders | x | x | x | | x | x | x | x | | | | Gallipoli | | | x | x | | | | | | | | Egypt & Palestine | | x | x | | | | | | | | | Macedonia | | x | x | x | | | | | | x | | Italy | | | | | | | | | | | | India | | | | | | | | | x | | | Burma | | | | | | | | | x | | Star
possible ? | 1914 or 1914-15 | x | | | | | | | | | | | or 1914-15 only | | x | x | x | | | x | | | | | VCs at a glance: |  | | | | | |  | | | | died
Extracted from : "Soldiers / Officers Died in the Great War" (consider approximate - in addition 72 officers are recorded with 'battalion not shown' or with battalions not shown here ) | 1067 | 297 | 243 | 179 | 206 | 200 | †
734 | none SDGW?
absorbed by 5th 29/8/18 | 48 | 32 | | 154 | | | * The second battalion were in Quetta NWF when war broke out and returned first to the UK
** 6th Battalion absorbed by the 5th Battalion, 2nd Nov 1916
*** 7th and 8th amalgamated on 15th October 1916 to form the 7/8th
† Decimated on the first day of the Somme 1/7/16 | Regular | Territorial Force | New Armies | Garrison. |
| | | Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19
2 men of the Royal Irish Fusiliers also qualified for this medal. | | VCs: 2; Morrow, Cather. | Battle Honours: Le Cateau; Marne 1914; Ypres 1915, 1917, 1918; Somme 1916, 1918; Arras 1917; Messines 1917, 1918; Lys; Macedonia 1915-17; Suvla; Palestine 1917-18. Retreat from Mons; Aisne 1914; Armentières 1914; Gravenstafel; St Julien; Frezenberg; Bellewaarde; Albert 1916; Guillemont; Ginchy; Le Transloy; Scarpe 1917; Langemarck 1917; Cambria 1917; St Quentin; Rosières; Bailleul; Kemmel; Courtrai; France and Flanders 1914-18. |
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| 1921: now titled - "The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's)" |
| 1922: Regulars reduced to a single battalion (the 1st). |
| 1938: re-formed into 2 battalions |
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WW2 1939 - 1945 | | Battalion → | 1st | 2nd | | campaign ↓ | | | France and Belgium 1940.
(Dunkirk ) | x | | | North Africa & Middle East | x | x
(Malta) | | Far East | | | | Sicily / Italy | x | | | N.W. Europe | | | | | Notes. | | | 25th Infantry Brigade:
France and Belgium 4/5/40-26/6/40
38th (Irish) Infantry Brigade*:
North Africa/Sicily/Italy
(*previously designated 210th Independent. Inf. Bde) | | 11/6/40 Defence of Malta:/ Inf Bde/served to: | | 231st | 232nd | 234th | | 6/8/40 | 5/4/43 | 11//6/43 | |
Sent to the Aegean Islands with the 234th 20/9/43, Brigade captured by the Germans on Leros 16/11/43 | | | | | | | WW2 Stars common to the Battalion. (excluding 39-45 star )
Key: A = Africa, P = Pacific, B = Burma, I = Italy, F&G = France and Germany | | | A, I. | A | | | | | | | Most also entitled to the 1939-45 War Medal | | | Battle Honours: St Orner-La Bassée; Bou Arada; Oued Zarga; Djebel Tanngoucha; Centuripe;Termoli; Sangro; Cassino II; Argenta Gap; Malta 1940. Withdrawal to Escaut; Stuka Farm; Djebel Bel Mandi; Dejebel Ang; Adrano; Salso Crossing; Simeto Crossing; Malleto; Trigno; Fossacesia; Lin Valley; Trasimene Line; Monte Spadura; Monte Grande: San Nicolo Canal; Leros. |
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| 1948: reduced via amalgamation to a single battalion [the 1st] |
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Mau Mau Rebellion, Kenya. 1953 1st Battalion | Africa General Service Medal 1902 - 56 | | clasp: | | | number: | ? | | | |
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| 1st Battalion served in Korea 1954 post armistice, qualify for the UN Korea Medal (bottom of that page). Prior to this the RIF did supply drafts to the RUR during the main conflict, but we are under the assumption that "Queen's Korea" medals to these men would be impressed as R.U.R. |
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