On July 10, 1943, the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers landed in Sicily as part of Operation Husky. My grandfather was among them. For nine days they slowly made their way towards ...

On the night of December 8 1943, Cocksedge, a lieutenant serving with 2nd Battalion the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (2 RIF), was ordered to take a fighting patrol across the river Sangro ...

Colonel John McCann, who has died aged 91, served with distinction in a number of Irish regiments, among them the London Irish Rifles and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and saw active service ...