Royal Munster Fusiliers created

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Fri, 07/01/1881

The Royal Munster Fusiliers

The Secretary of State for War, Hugh Childers, restructured the infantry of the British Army in what was known as the Childers reforms of 1881. The 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) and the 104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers) were given Irish territorial titles under the restructuring and designated the 1st and 2nd Battalion The Royal Munster Fusiliers. The Regimental Depot was established at Ballymullen barracks, Tralee and the 3rd, 4th and 5th Battalions were Militia battalions in Counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick.

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'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. He was facing the right way, the last round of a clip in the breech and three dead Germans in front of him. His name was Duff. After all is over - and the remainder of the Empire is understandably irritated with Ireland - I hope these countless Duffs, from both the North and the South, and in all three services, will be remembered.
(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)

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