13th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

13th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
Cap badge of the Royal Fusiliers
Active13 September 1914–17 May 1919
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch New Army
RoleInfantry
SizeOne Battalion
Part of37th Division
Garrison/HQHounslow
EngagementsBattle of the Somme
Battle of the Ancre
Battle of Arras
Third Battle of Ypres
German spring offensive
Hundred Days Offensive

The 13th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, (13th RF) was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It served on the Western Front from July 1915 until the Armistice, seeing action at the Somme and the Ancre, at Arras and Ypres, against the German spring offensive, and in the final Hundred Days Offensive.


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