Photographs and toy soldiers of the Colour Party presentation of New Colours to 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers , Kenya 1963

Photographs and toy soldiers  of the Colour Party, presentation of New Colours to 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers , Kenya 1963 (Enniskillen Castle Museums).

The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was an Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1968. The regiment was formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot and the 108th Regiment of Foot. It saw service in the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Second World War. In 1968 it was amalgamated with the other regiments in the North Irish Brigade, the Royal Ulster Rifles, and the Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) into the Royal Irish Rangers. 

HRH The Duke of Gloucester, Colonel-in-Chief, presented the 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers with New Colours at a parade held in Templer Barracks, Kahawa outside Nairobi, Kenya on 20 February 1962. The Colonel-in-Chief of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers presents the new Regimental Colour to Lieutenant P V Kendal-Jones having previously presented the new Queen's Colour to Lieutenant D J C Stewart (right). These Colours are now laid up in the Regimental Chapel in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.