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created 1 November 2002. Corrected and updated
04.11.2004
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Note:This
is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental
page for full lineage and other information.
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Colour Key
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| 1793.12.03 | 89th
Regiment of Foot raised n Dublin |
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| 1794 | Ireland | ||
| 1794 | Flanders | ||
| 1795 | England: Sunderland | ||
| 1798 | Ireland | ||
| 1799? | Minorca | ||
| 1799 | Sicily | ||
| 1800 | Malta | ||
| 1801 | Egypt | ||
| 1801.09.10 | at sea | ships: Minotaur, Northumberland | |
| 1810 | Malta | ||
| 1802 | England | ||
| 180u | Ireland | ||
| 1804.08.01 | 1st Battalion,
89th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1805.12 | at sea: HQ, Gren Coy and Colours lost in gale off Holland | ||
| 1805.12 | Germany: Bremen | ||
| 1806.01 | North Germany | ||
| 1806.02.15 | at sea | ||
| 1806.02 | England | ||
| 1806 | Colours presented | ||
| 1807.08 | South America | ||
| 1807 | Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 1808 | Ceylon | ||
| 1810.12.01 | Mauritius | ||
| 1810? | India: Madras | ||
| 1811.12 | five coys converted to rifles | ||
| 1811.12 | Java | ||
| 1812.03 | Sumatra | ||
| 1812 | Dutch East Indies | ||
| 1814? | rifle coys converted back to inf | ||
| 1815? | India: Madras | ||
| 1804.08.01 | 89th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1817 | Pindari war | ||
| 1819 | India: Quilon (Madras) | ||
| 1820.05 | Colours presented at Quilon | ||
| 1824 | Burma | ||
| 1826? | India: Madras | ||
| 1831 | England: Devonport | ||
| 1833.08.03 | Colours presented by Princess Victoria at Plymouth (laid up 1866 at All Saints' Church, Aldershot) | ||
| 1835 | Gibraltar? | ||
| West Indies | |||
| Canada | |||
| 1847 | UK | ||
| 1854.04.20 | at sea | ||
| 1854 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1854.12.17 | Crimea: Balaklava | ||
| 1854 | Crimea | ||
| 1856 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1855 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1857 | Kaffir war | based at East London | |
| 1857.09 | India: Bombay | ||
| 1857 | Sepoy rebellion | ||
| 1858 | India | ||
| 1865.08 | England: Aldershot | 3 Bde | |
| 1866.04.05 | Colours presented by Queen Victoria at Aldershot | ||
| 1866 | Ireland | ||
| 1870 | Egypt | ||
| 1870 | India | ||
| 1876 | Burma: Rangoon | ||
| 1880 | India | ||
| 1881.07.01 | 2nd Battalion, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) | ||
| 1881 | India: Bombay | ||
| 1884 | Sudan | ||
| 1884 | England: Portsmouth | ||
| <1889> | Dover | ||
| 1889 | Colours presented by Queen Victoria at Dover | ||
| <1892> | Ireland: Athlone | ||
| <1894> | Kilkenny | ||
| <1897> | Cork | ||
| 1897 | England: Colchester | ||
| 1899.10 | South Africa | 6 Bde | |
| 1902 | India: Gharial | ||
| 1903 | Rawalpindi | ||
| 1906 | Ferozepore | ||
| 1908 | Dalhousie | ||
| 1910 | Quetta | ||
| 1914.12 | France and Flanders | 27 Div | |
| 1915.11 | Macedonia | ||
| 1916.11 | Macedonia | 10 Div | |
| 1917.10 | Palestine | ||
| 1919.07.02 | reduced to cadre in Egypt | ||
| 1919 | England: Dover | ||
| 1922.11.21 | disbanded at Dover (technically "amalgamated" with 1st Battalion) | ||
| 1938.04.14 | 2nd
Battalion, The
Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) re-formed at Aldershot |
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| 1938 | Egypt | aaa | |
| 1938 | Malta | ||
| 1939 | Malta | ||
| 1943.09.20 | Aegean | 234 Inf Bde | |
| 1943.11.16 | captured by the Germans at Leros | ||
| 1944.05.02 | re-formed at Alexandria by renumbering 6th Battalion | ||
| 1944 | Egypt | ||
| 1944. | UK | 47 Inf Bde | |
| 1944.07 | UK | 55 Inf Div | |
| 1946 | UK | ||
| 1948 | Egypt | ||
| 1948.09.01 | amalgamated in Egypt with 1st Battalion | ||
