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Before the 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers departed Kinsale for Enniskillen, the principal citizens presented a farewell address to the Battalion, which included:
'We, the inhabitants of Kinsale, on the occasion of your vacating the station, desire to express our appreciation of the general good conduct of the men, and the friendly feeling which has existed between the military and the civilians during your long sojourn here. ... We now bid you farewell, and trust the colours of the Inniskillings will be borne triumphantly in the present as in the past.'
The 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, after nearly one year as Demonstration Battalion at Dehra Dun in the Himalayan foothills, moved to Rawalpindi in the (now Pakistan) Punjab, during early January 1946, where its role was the 10th Indian Division's reserve for operations on the North-West Frontier. Such operations had little to do with Second World War experiences in Burma and were more a return to the early 1900s with expertise required in moving by columns covered by picqueting.
The 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers arrived in Cape Town and would remain on operations in the Boer War for the next three years until they embarked at Cape Town to leave South Africa on 17 January 1903.
The Boer leaders agreed to meet the British Commander in Chief, General Lord Kitchener, and the British High Commissioner, Lord Milner, at a conference to discuss peace following the fall of the last Boer stronghold in the Transvaal. A 10-day cease fire was called to allow the Boer leaders time to come into Vereeniging for the negotiations.
During the War of the Spanish Succession, General Codrington's expedition, which included the Inniskillings, had begun landings in March 1703 on the western part (Basse-Terre) of the French possession of Guadeloupe, an island in the West Indies. This was a mainly seaborne expedition with landings attacking French defences and settlements along the coast.
Following the action at Inniskilling Hill and the subsequent Relief of Ladysmith, General Buller made several references in his despatches to the Inniskillings and other Irish regiments; the despatch to Field Marshal Lord Roberts dated 14 March 1900 included the following:
Retreat to Dunkirk
In mid-May 1940, the 2nd Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were guarding a bridge over the Senne river at Hals, Belgium while I Corps withdrew in haste from the advancing Germans. As soon as all the Corps troops had crossed the bridge, it was destroyed.
British Infantry of the Line battalions had an officer appointment known as the 'Instructor of Musketry' from 1857 until 1883 when the appointment was abolished. Their time in the appointment varied from two to five years.
The role was revived in 1887, but the new appointment was described as the 'Assistant Adjutant' and records show, for example, that the first Assistant Adjutant of the 89th Regiment, Lieutenant William H Percival Plomer, was appointed in 1887.
Lance Corporal William Gordon (39), a member of The Ulster Defence Regiment, and Lesley Gordon (10), his daughter, were killed by a booby-trap bomb attached to a car outside their home in Maghera, County Londonderry, by the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
The IRA had announced the renewal of its 1994 ceasefire effective from 20 July 1997 and then on 28 July 2005, announced the end of its campaign, promising complete decommissioning of all its weapons. This was part of the Northern Ireland peace process that lead to the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement of 1998, although the process in itself continues.
