This article is about the historic regiment. For the modern regiment, see Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
Not to be confused with the 1st–4th (City of London) Battalions, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).
7th Regiment of Foot Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Cap badge
Active
1685–1968
Country
Kingdom of England (1685–1707) Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) United Kingdom (1801–1968)
Branch
British Army
Type
Infantry
Role
Line infantry
Size
1–4 Regular battalions
Up to 3 Militia and Special Reserve battalions
Up to 4 Territorial and Volunteer battalions
Up to 36 Hostilities-only battalions
Garrison/HQ
Tower of London
Nickname(s)
The Elegant Extracts
Motto(s)
Honi soit qui mal y pense
March
The Seventh Royal Fusiliers
Anniversaries
Albuhera Day (16 May)
Insignia
Hackle
White
Military unit
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years. It was known as the 7th Regiment of Foot until the Childers Reforms of 1881.[1]
The regiment served in many wars and conflicts throughout its long existence, including the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Second World War. In 1968, the regiment was amalgamated with the other regiments of the Fusilier Brigade – the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and the Lancashire Fusiliers – to form a new large regiment, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
The Royal Fusiliers War Memorial, a monument dedicated to the almost 22,000 Royal Fusiliers who died during the First World War, stands on Holborn in the City of London.
^Westlake, R. English and Welsh Infantry Regiments: An illustrated Record of Service (195) Stroud, GLS, UK (Spellmount) ISBN 1-873376-24-3
regiments of the Fusilier Brigade – the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and the Lancashire Fusiliers – to form a new large...
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (often referred to as the RoyalFusiliers or, simply, the Fusiliers) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part...
Revolution. In 1702, it was designated a fusilier regiment and became the Welch Regiment of Fusiliers; the prefix "Royal" was added in 1713, then confirmed...
of London Regiment), the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and Lancashire Fusiliers to form the present Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Although briefly designated...
although not fusiliers, wears fusilier ceremonial uniform with scarlet plumes, because of its alliance with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. The five current...
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2nd Battalions, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, respectively. In 1903 the Regiment was granted a grey hackle for their fusilier raccoon-skin hats to...
other regiments of the Fusilier Brigade – the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and the RoyalFusiliers (City of London Regiment)...
unofficial name used to refer to five battalions of the British Army's RoyalFusiliers regiment, which consisted of Jewish volunteers recruited during World...
the 102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers) and the 103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers). Both the fusilier regiments had originated as...
regiments in the Fusilier Brigade – the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, the RoyalFusiliers (City of London Regiment) and the Lancashire Fusiliers – into a new...
Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers), or the 1st Bengal European Fusiliers. The East India Company formed the 104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers), or 2nd...
2nd Lieut., RoyalFusiliers Leonard Sadgrove (d.1917), violin and piano, Royal Amateur Orchestral Society Scholar, private, RoyalFusiliers Kenneth Bruce...
of local men. The unit became the 32nd (East Ham) battalion of the RoyalFusiliers (City of London Regiment). The battalion was assigned to the 124th...
The Royal Westminster Militia, later the 5th (Reserve) Battalion, RoyalFusiliers, was an auxiliary regiment raised in the City of Westminster in the...
national service. Between 1952 and 1954 he served in the British Army's RoyalFusiliers, first at the British Army of the Rhine Headquarters in Iserlohn, West...
The Scots Fusiliers of Canada and redesignated as The Highland Fusiliers of Canada Redesignated 7 July 1998 as The Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada...
Army in March 1952. Although the pair reported to the depot of the RoyalFusiliers at the Tower of London, they attempted to leave after only a few minutes...
978-1-78331-085-2. C. Northcote Parkinson, Always a Fusilier: The War History of The RoyalFusiliers (City of London Regiment) 1939–1945, London: Sampson...
King's Own Scottish Borderers to become the Royal Scots Borderers, which merged with the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire...
in support, behind the 2nd RoyalFusiliers attacking towards the Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt and the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers advancing from a sunken lane...
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Kingdom of England (1685–1707)
Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)
United Kingdom (1801–1968)
British Army