Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

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The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is an infantry regiment of the British Army. It belongs to the Queen’s Division and was used in both the Second Gulf War and the Third Gulf War as well as in the Afghanistan War.

Description
The regiment consists of a battalion of the Regular Army and a battalion of the Army Reserve. The regular first battalion of about 700 soldiers in the county of Wiltshire is equipped with the Warrior tank as a mechanized infantry. The fifth battalion (reserve) reinforces the first battalion if necessary. They are under the 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade.

The current Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment is Prince Edward, 2nd Duke of Kent; Colonel of the Regiment is Major-General Jonathan Swift.

History
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers took over the tradition of the London Fusiliere also their headquarters in the Tower of London. This regiment was founded in 1685 to protect the artillery housed there at that time. Today there is the headquarters and the regimental museum. The blue badge color of all royal infantry regiments is worn by the regimental chapel to the red parade uniform.
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers has existed since an army reform in 1968. It was merged from four English Fusilier regiments:

The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
The Lancashire Fusiliers

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and its predecessors participated in almost every war the United Kingdom contested. In recent years, these have been deployments in the Balkans, Cyprus, Afghanistan and Iraq (1991 and as of 2003).

His second battalion with about 600 soldiers stationed in Celle, Lower Saxony, until July 2012 was merged with the first battalion as part of the Army in 2020.

Traditional lines