Royal Fusiliers Exhibition At The Library

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Royal Fusiliers 2The Royal Munster Fusiliers Association, the Western Front Association, the Great War Society and Kerry Library will stage information days and an exhibition in Tralee Library on Friday and Saturday, May 23-24 from 10am to 5pm on the “Royal Munster Fusiliers Association and the Kerry connection.”

The Regiment, which was primarily based at the military barracks in Tralee, had an association with the town from the 1880’s to 1921and many men from Kerry served with it in the First World War.

The Royal Munster Fusiliers were formed during the military reforms of 1881 by the joining of the 101st Regiment of Foot, the 104th Regiment of Foot and local Militia units in the province of Munster. The Regimental Depot was located at Ballymullen Barracks, Tralee.

The exhibition will feature maps and posters on the First World War, military artefacts, details of those who were killed from the major towns of Kerry, along with a wide range of photographs from that era.

The exhibition will also have a number of researchers available to assist people in tracing any relatives that they had who served with the Regiment. If you have any photos or other mementos of a relative who served with the Regiment, please bring them along so that the researchers can view them.
Admission is free.

For further details contact Tralee Library at 066 7121200 or log onto www.kerrylibrary.ie

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