1st Bn Lancashire Fusiliers
Tours and Postings




WW1

August 1914 : in Karachi. Returned to England, landing 2 January 1915. 2 January 1915 : Attached to 86th Brigade, 29th Division.


Bold, Underlined names are links which contain photos & stories about that particular location. Click on a location to take you there.
The ones not in bold are still under construction.

 

From
To
Location
1854
XXth Regiment The Battle of Inkerman
1881
1885
England
1885
1891
Ireland
1891
1897
England
1897
1899
Malta & Crete
1899
1902
Gibraltar
1902
1905
Malta
1905
1907
Egypt & Malta
1907
1911
India
1912
1914
Aden
1914
1918
WW1. Gallipoli. Somme, Arras, Ypres, Cambrai
1919
1921
England, then Dublin Ireland.
1921
1926
England, Tidworth.
1926
1928
England. Dover.
1928
1929
Egypt. Moascar.
1929
1930
Gibraltar.
1930
1933
England, Catterick.
1933
1935
England, Colchester.
1936
1938
China, Shanghai, Tientsin.
1938
1939
India, Quetta.
1939
1945
WW2, Chindits, Kohima, India.
1944
1948
India.
1948
1950
Warminster (Demonstration Battalion)
1950
19th Oct 1952
Egypt
20th Oct 1952
21st Aug 1953
Kenya.
22nd Aug 1953
27th Nov 1953

UK leave and refit Barnard Castle

28th Nov 1953
1956
Germany, Iserlohn.
1956
1957
Strensall, York. Ghost posting preparing for Suez posting which was aborted
31st of January 1957 train to Southampton, the ship sailed on the 1st of February arriving Cyprus on the 10th February at Limassol,waiting for the buses the local orchard was somehow cleaned out totally."The dates are from my personal dairy .
Alan Taylor.
1957 Feb
1960
Cyprus. (aborted Suez Posting see Cyprus page)
1960
1964
Germany, Osnabruck.
1964 Feb
1965
England, Worcester
1965 Jan
1965
British Guiana,
1965 Oct
1967
England, Weeton.
1967
1968
Hong Kong
1968 Apr
1969
Renamed 4RRF Still in Hong Kong