1st Inniskillings move from China to India.

Event

Mon, 11/04/1912

IWM INS 5696 The 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers embarked at Chin Wang Tao, the port of Tientsin, on 4 November 1912 and sailed from China to India, landing at Bombay on 3 December. The Battalion entrained for Secunderabad, Trimulgherry, where it was stationed when war was declared on Germany in 1914.

Left, cap badge* as worn by soldiers of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1914. (Image © IWM INS 5696)

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Note the flag flying to the left from the central turret of the Castle of Enniskillen on top of the ball of the grenade.

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