The 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was in 13th Brigade, 5th Division, from 30th November 1939 – 14th August 1944. The 2nd Inniskillings were reformed in 1937, after being disbanded in 1922. In 1940, they were in Belgium and France as part of the...
A charismatic and determined leader. Patrick Twohig was born and raised in Dublin, youngest son of John Patrick Twohig, and his wife Ellen, née O’Brien. He had three brothers and one sister. He attended Trinity College, Dublin, enrolling in 1920, and obtained a...
A famous soldier, politician and colonial governor from County Fermanagh. Lowry Cole was the second son of the first Earl of Enniskillen, William Willoughby Cole, of Florence Court, County Fermanagh. He was a great great great great grandson of Captain Sir William...
ENNISKILLEN CONCERT TO CELEBRATE AN INNISKILLING FUSILIER AND WAR POET Francis Ledwidge was born in Slane, County Meath in 1887. He was the son of a farm labourer and worked in the local copper mines. In his early years Ledwidge was a keen sportsman and amateur actor,...
A courageous Inniskilling is killed during a trench raid, 15th/16th July 1916. Trench Raids. Trench raids were carried out by both sides, usually at night, for a variety of reasons: To obtain information on enemy defences and units. To capture prisoners for...
Phase one of our Great War Legacy Project saw the opening on 13 April of the ‘Quartermaster’s Store’, Information Desk and Shop, by former Inniskillings Museum Curator and Trustee, Maj (Retd) George Stephens MBE DL in celebration of his 90th...
Lieutenant Colonel Terence T. Macartney-Filgate OBE, 1898 – 1981 Known as ‘Phil’, he came from a military family from Co Louth, and joined the Inniskillings’ Special Reserve in 1915. On obtaining his commission in 1917, he was posted to the 5th Battalion, 10th...
2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Upper Silesia, August 1921- March 1922 (most of the photographs are from an album which belonged to Lt Crosslé) After the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference allowed ethnic peoples who had been part of the...
Lieutenant Richard Playe Abney Smith – 1859-1882 There are three memorials to Richard Smith in St Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen and one in St Mary’s Church in Shrewsbury. His grave stone is in the Cathedral grounds, just to the left of the entrance porch,...
