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  US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Fusilier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Fusilier was originally the name of a soldier armed with a light flintlock musket called the fusil.
The distinctive head-dress of fusilier other ranks in the British service is a raccoon skin cap, generally resembling, but smaller than and different in details from, the bearskins of the Foot Guards.
In the Royal Netherlands Army, one of the two foot guards regiments, the Garderegiment Fuseliers Prinses Irene is a regiment of fusiliers.
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 Fusilier - Databank
The distinctive head-dress of fusiliers in the British service is a raccoon skin cap, generally resembling, but smaller than and different in details from, the bearskins of the Foot Guards.
Attached to the beret, balmoral or tam o'shanter badge is the hackle.
In the Royal Netherlands Army, one of the two foot guards regiments, the Garderegiment Fusiliers Prinses Irene is a regiment of fusiliers.
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The '''Garderegiment Fusiliers Prinses Irene''' is a regiment of the Royal Netherlands Army, named after Princess Irene of the Netherlands Princess Irene, the sister of Beatrix of the Netherlands Queen Beatrix.
It is one of two regiments, along with the Garderegiment Grenadiers en Jagers, to be classed as Foot Guards 'Guards'.
The regiment was formed in 1946 as the '''Regiment Prinses Irene''', to perpetuate the traditions of the Princess Irene Brigade, a formation of Free Dutch troops formed after the Nazi German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.
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 Garderegiment Fusiliers Prinses Irene - meaning of word
The Garderegiment Fusiliers Prinses Irene is a regiment of the Royal Netherlands Army, named after Princess Irene of the Netherlands, the sister of Beatrix of the Netherlands.
It is one of two regiments, along with the Garderegiment Grenadiers en Jagers, to be classed as Foot Guards.
The regiment was formed in 1946 as the Regiment Prinses Irene, to perpetuate the traditions of the Princess Irene Brigade, a formation of Free Dutch troops formed after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.
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 goDutch.com :: Veterans ‘Prinses Irene Brigade’ help celebrate unit’s 60th anniversary
Instead of the customary 3,000 to 4,000 personnel, the Prinses Irene Brigade never totalled more than approximately 2,000 men at one time, while perhaps only 3,000 people in total ever were part of it.
The Fusiliers always can be recognized by their cordon, an orange-and-blue braid which is issued to each new Fuselier by World War II veterans.
The unit received its colours from then Queen Wilhelmina, Beatrix’ grandmother, on August 27, 1941, and was renamed Koninklijke Nederlandse Brigade ‘Prinses Irene.’ The unit became known as the Prinses Irene Brigade, a moniker still more common to the unit than the current ‘Garderegiment Fusiliers Prinses Irene,’ the name it received in 1952.
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 2nd Platoon of the 44th Mechanised Infantry Battalion in Afghanistan - Military Photos
During the first rotation, of which this unit was part, the battlegroup of Task Force Uruzgan was made up of the 12th Infantry Battalion Air Assault ("Regiment Van Heutsz") and additional 44th Mechanised Infantry compagnies ("Regiment Infanterie Johan Willem Friso").
At the moment the battlegroup consists of the 17th Mechanised Infantry battalion ("Garderegiment Fusiliers Prinses Irene") and additional units from the 12th Infantry Battalion Air Assault.
Than there is a company of the 11th Infantry Battalion Air Assault ("Garderegiment Grenadiers en Jagers") active in Kandahar.
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