Parish Notes
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

Colours of 1st Batt. Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

Photo: J. Brown

In St. Nicholas Cathedral are the Regimental Colours of the 1st Batt. Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

There is a plaque which reads:
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
These colours
of the 1st Battalion
presented by
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent
on St. George’s Day 1970
saw service in Northern Ireland
Gibraltar, Bermuda, Cyprus and
with the British Army of the Rhine.