Imperial Duties between the wars. India and Iraq, 1920-1925 India remained the jewel in the Imperial Crown, though there was to be no Imperial Durbar on the accession of George VI as King Emperor in 1936. There were increasing demands from Indian nationalists for...
A dragoon was originally a foot soldier on horseback, they travelled to the battlefield on their horses, but usually fought on foot, using their muskets, e.g. the Inniskillings at the battles of the Boyne and Aughrim, 1690 and 1691. Regiments of cavalry were generally...
On 1st July 1916, Drummer Jack Downs of the 10th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, sounded the ‘Advance’ of the 36th (Ulster) Division at the Battle of the Somme. Over the first two days of the battle, the Division lost some 5,000 men and, of these, more than...
Freedom of a town or city. Freedom is an ancient privilege a town or city can grant to a regiment to march through the streets ‘with drums beating, Colours flying and bayonets fixed.’ In Roman and medieval times, troops were not allowed inside the city walls or...
Irish homes in mourning. 41 Irish soldiers died in the Dublin Rising, and 581 in the Battle of Hulluch in France. Well over 1,000 were wounded in the battle, including many gassed. For the rest of their lives these men suffered chronic lung and breathing...
FLAG RETURNS TO LIBERTY HALL AFTER 100 YEARS On Easter Tuesday 25th April 1916 soldiers of the 3rd, 4th and 12th Reserve Battalions of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers arrived in Dublin as part of a hastily assembled Ulster Composite Battalion to quell the Easter...
Some very rare 200 year old items from the period of the Peninsula War are on display in the Inniskillings Museum. These items are the belongings of two Inniskilling officers. They are linked in an extraordinary way, though the items came to the Museum at different...
