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The Royal Dublin Fusiliers was a British Army infantry regiment that was active from 1 July 1881 to 31 July 1922. The Royal Dublin Fusiliers was one of eight Irish regiments of the army to be raised and garrisoned in Ireland, with its home depot being located in Naas, County Kildare. The Royal Dublin Fusiliers was formed through the merger of the 103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers), the 102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers), and units from Dublin and Kildare, and both of its regiments served in the Second Boer War, suffering heavy losses at the Battle of Talana Hill in 1899 and at the Battle of the Tugela Heights in 1900. The refgiment went on to raise 6 battalions during World War I, fighting on the Western Front, the Gallipoli campaign, in the Middle East, and on the Macedonian front. The regiment was disbanded in 1922 on the establishment of the Irish Free State.

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