Cap Badge - Royal Dublin Fusiliers This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $40.00 on e-Bay in the Spring/Summer of 2017. This badge was deemed irrelevant to the museum. The money was used to purchase relevant badges for the collection. The Royal Dublin Fusiliers was an infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 by the amalgamation of the 102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers) and the 103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers) to form the 1st and 2nd Battalions, The Royal Dublin Fusiliers. It raised six battalions for the First World War, in which it won three Victoria Crosses and fought in Gallipoli and Palestine as well as on the Western Front. The regiment also became entangled in the Easter Rising back in Dublin in 1916, when three of its battalions were sent to attack the Irish nationalists. The post-war period saw 1st Battalion become part of the British army of occupation in Germany, whilst 2nd Battalion was stationed in Turkey, India and then England. In 1922 the British Dominion of the Irish Free State was established and so the five line infantry regiments that traditionally recruited in southern Ireland were disbanded. The Royal Dublin Fusiliers was one of these regiments and on 12 June that year its Colours were laid up at Windsor Castle.