Subsequent Regiment Lineage : ---------------------------------------- 1st Royal Bombay Fusiliers (1861 - 1862) 103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers) (1862 - 1881) Royal Dublin Fusiliers (1881 - 1922)
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The 2nd battalion of the regiment was formed for the protection of Bombay, part of the dower of the Queen of Charles II, at which time it wore scarlet with emerald green facings. Its earliest important service was in 1733, when it took part in some operations near Thull; but in 1757 it saw more serious work at Chandernagore, Plassey, Buxar, Medura, and Palamcottah, and saw further fighting in the Malwan expedition in 1765; in 1767 against the Chaub Arabs, in 1768 against Hyder Ali, in 1779 against the Nawab of Surat, and other expeditions from that date to 1848, when it was present at Gujerat, at the time when the Punjaub was added to our empire. The badge of the "Royal Tiger", already referred to, belongs to both regiments; but the 2nd battalion gave the superscription "Plassey", and "Buxar", while to the same regiment is due the elephant, superscribed with "Carnatic" and "Mysore". It also bears the arms of the city of Dublin, by "permission of the Municipal Council".
