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The Prince of Wales opened the new House of Parliament of Northern Ireland at Stormont, Belfast and the 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers formed the Guard of Honour. The Guard Comander was Major H A Allen and HRH Prince Edward summoned WO1 (RSM) Martin, the Regimental Sergeant Major, to complimented him on the Honour Guard's excellent drill.
In May 1924, the 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was stationed at Hinaidi, near Baghdad. Some 150 miles away lay the ancient city of Kirkuk with a mixed population of Christians, Assyrians and Arabs where, on Sunday 4 May 1924, there were serious disturbances, including a mutiny by the Assyrian levies.
The setting for the 1943 Arakan campaign can be found in the Despatches sent to the Secretary of State for War on 27 September 1943 by Field Marshal The Viscount Wavell GCB CMG MC ADC, Commander-in-Chief, India:
In January 1692*, the Inniskillings were stationed in the Tower of London. While they were there, an upper storeroom floor in the White Tower collapsed under the weight of thousands of barrels of gunpowder. The duty of clearing away this dangerous mass fell to the lot of the Inniskillings, yet so well was it done that not only were there no accidents but not even a rumour of what might easily have been a catastrophe reached the outside world.
*The exact date of this event is not known although it is known to have occurred in January 1692.
The Williamite War In Ireland, the War of the Two Kings.
Colonel Zachariah Tiffin's Inniskilliners joined the 73 year-old Duke of Schomberg and his force at Loughbrickland on 2 September 1689, before marching south to Newry and Dundalk.
The Chaplain of the English Army described the arrival of the various Inniskillings thus;
Between 1701 and 1714, a war was fought between various European powers over the disputed succession to the Spanish throne and sovereignty over Spanish dependencies. This became known as 'The War of the Spanish Succession' and Queen Anne's army fought on the side of the Grand Alliance seeking to prevent French King Louis XIV declaring his Bourbon grandson as Philip V of Spain. The prospect of the French and Spanish Empires united under a single House of Bourbon crown was in itself a threat to the sovereign states of Europe.
Right, elements of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers disembarking at Cherbourg from the SS Royal Sovereign (possibly D Company and HQ Company). The majority of the Battalion crossed from Southampton on the SS Manxman before departing Cherbourg harbour at 1446 hours. By 18 September, the Battalion was complete but with some shortages in manpower and equipment.
On 25 April 1915, the 29th Division landed at five beaches around Cape Helles. The 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers' task was to land at X Beach, following an initial assault by the Royal Fusiliers, and to consolidate the beachhead at the top of the cliffs.
Soon after the end of the War of 1812, the 1st Inniskillings returned from America and landed at Portsmouth, England on 9 May 1815. On arrival, the 1st Battalion exchanged 280 sick for an equal number of fit men from the 2nd Battalion stationed in Portsmouth. Within the week, the 1st Battalion sailed to Ostend and, when they arrived on 24 May, were at once ordered to march to Ghent.
In 1894, welcome orders came for the 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers to proceed from Portsmouth to Ireland. On 4 June 1894, the Battalion landed at Queenstown (now Cobh) and furnished detachments for the fortifications of Cork, with Headquarters at Kinsale where the Headquarter Company did fine work in fighting an alarming fire which raged in the Market Place on the night of 12 August 1894. The Battalion was warmly thanked for their splendid exertions on this occasion. At the subsequent meeting of the Kinsale Town Commissioners, they passed a motion:
