Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
	Cap badge of the regiment
Active	23 April 1968 – present
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Line Infantry
Role	1st Battalion; (Armoured Infantry); 5th Battalion; (Armoured Infantry & Army Reserve);
Size	Two battalions
Part of	Queen's Division
Garrison/HQ	RHQ – London; 1st Battalion – Tidworth; 5th Battalion – Newcastle upon Tyne;
Motto(s)	"Honi soit qui mal y pense" (French); "Evil be to him who evil thinks"
March	Quick – The British Grenadiers; Slow – Rule Britannia;
Mascot(s)	Traditional – Black Buck – Bobby; Substitute – Otterhound – George
Anniversaries	Middle East Day (28 February); St. George's Day (23 April); Gallipoli Day (25 April); Albuhera Day (16 May); Normandy Day (6 June); Northern Ireland Day (15 June); Minden Day (1 August); Afghanistan Day (4 October);
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	The Duke of Kent
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Hackle	Red over White; From Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
Abbreviation	FUSILIERS

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (often referred to as the Royal Fusiliers or, simply, the Fusiliers) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen's Division. Currently, the regiment has two battalions: the 1st Battalion, part of the Regular Army, is an armoured infantry battalion based in Tidworth, Wiltshire, and the 5th Battalion, part of the Army Reserve, recruits in the traditional fusilier recruiting areas across England. The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was largely unaffected by the infantry reforms that were announced in December 2004, but under the Army 2020 reduction in the size of the Army, the 2nd Battalion was merged into the first in 2014.