page_title: 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
section_title: The Victorian era
hierarchical_section_title: 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot / History / The Victorian era
caption_attribution_description: Uniform of the 87th Foot in 1853.
context_page_description: The 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 89th Regiment of Foot to form the Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) in 1881.
context_section_description: The regiment remained in India and was deployed to Burma in October 1825 for service in the First Anglo-Burmese War: it formed part of an army which advanced up the River Irrawaddy to the Kingdom of Ava. It returned to India arriving in Calcutta in November 1826 and embarked for England in February 1827. It became the 87th Regiment of Foot (or Prince of Wales's Own Irish Fusiliers) in July 1827 and the 87th (or Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot in November 1827.
  The regiment embarked for Mauritius in February 1831 and remained there until it returned to England in June 1843. It went back to India in April 1849 and saw action on the North West Frontier during the Indian Rebellion. It embarked at Calcutta for Hong Kong in 1860 but returned home in 1861. It was posted to Gibraltar in 1866 and to Malta in 1868, before sailing for Nova Scotia in 1872, transferring to Bermuda in 1876 and embarking for home in 1877.
  As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 87th was linked with the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) and assigned to district no. 68 at Renmore Barracks in Galway. On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot to form the Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers).
caption: Regimental uniform in 1853
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