Original British WWI Royal Irish Fusiliers Bearskin Busby by Hobson & Sons in size 7 3/8 – dated 1914

Original Item: Only One available. First formed as part of the Childer’s Reforms of 1881, the official title of this regiment from that point through WWI was Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment. It was formed by the amalgamation of the 87th (Prince of Wales’s Irish) Regiment of Foot and the 89th (The Princess Victoria’s) Regiment of Foot.[1] The regiment got its nickname, the Faughs, from its Irish war cry “Faugh A Ballagh” (Fág a’ Bealach, meaning Clear the Way) from the Napoleonic Wars.