TROOP numbers across the region will be slashed as the Government announces its biggest shake-up of the armed forces for hundreds of years. The 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers based in ...

The fight to save a North East battalion is being taken to the council chambers. Northumberland County Councillors are to debate a motion tomorrow calling on them to oppose the decision to axe the 2nd ...

On December 15, 1950, with the Korean war at its height, Private David Strachan of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers was put aboard a truck for an urgent mission. Korean troops had been seen shooting ...

Norman Pennington was born at 65, Arthur Street, Thornhill, Rotherham, on Christmas Day 1911. He was always a very gentle boy. He left school at 14, and started his apprenticeship at Heaton’s Brass ...

I joined the Territiorial Army at 17 years old for 4 years really to have a holiday.Just before my discharge I came back to Ripley becuse my mother's family were down here.Her name was Myra Smith and ...

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Ahead of the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, we have travelled out to Belgium and France with families, veterans and serving soldiers of the Northumberland Fusiliers. The North East regiment ...

Representatives of the Northumberland Fusiliers, past and present, laid poppy wreaths during the nightly service of remembrance at the Menin Gate, at the end of their tour to mark the centenary of the ...

Alnwick Castle has welcomed a 100-year-old D-Day veteran who trained in the town during his youth. Donald Turrell, who served with distinction during the Second World War, was visiting the ...

Warwickshire County Council said the honour showed support for The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers has received the freedom of Warwickshire. About 150 soldiers from the 2nd ...

Norman Pennington was born at 65, Arthur Street, Thornhill, Rotherham, on Christmas Day 1911. He was always a very gentle boy. He left school at 14, and started his apprenticeship at Heaton’s Brass ...