Genealogy Chat

Can anyone tell me if it`s possible to find out where regiments served during and after WW2. My uncle John Charles Johnston is thought to have been in the Royal Inniskilling Regiment during the war and served with them in Kenya during the Mau Mau problems in the 1950s. I can`t find any reference to them particularly to the Kenya posting. I would like to find if he survived and returned home .
Also ,would he have needed to have connections to Northern Ireland to be in that regiment.

Try

http://www.inniskilling.com/

also
After the war, the First Battalion returned to India from Burma and after a stay in Hong Kong was engaged for many months hunting insurgents in the jungles of Malaya. In 1948 both regular battalions were amalgamated as the 1st Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. In 1949, after a brief spell at home, the battalion went to the West Indies, returning to the United Kingdom in April 1951. In 1952 it was presented with the Freedom of Enniskillen, the town of its founding. Later that year it went abroad to the Suez Canal Zone and afterwards to Kenya, where it helped to suppress the Mau Mau uprising; while in the latter country, it received the Freedom of Nairobi in perpetuity, the first and so far only time that a British regiment has been so honoured by a colonial city. For a short time, from April 1952, the 2nd Battalion was reformed and saw service in Egypt and Cyprus, where it was in action against EOKA insurgents. The battalion had also deployed 400 men to help the civil authorities during severe flooding in the Thames estuary. In 1956 the battalion was again disbanded.

The First Battalion returned to England in 1955 and after two years at the School of Infantry went to Germany, being stationed in Berlin and Wuppertal. In 1960 half of the battalion was back in Kenya with a detachment in Bahrein. In 1961 the battalion flew into Kuwait when the sheikdom was threatened by Iraq. The battalion returned to England in 1962, stationed at Gravesend.

In April 1968 the 1st Battalion had its final operational deployment when Tactical Headquarters and B Company were ordered at short notice to Bermuda with trouble brewing on the island due to a tense political situation. Following a peaceful election the detachment returned to Worcester in preparation, along with the remainder of the battalion, for the final regimental chapter; at midnight on 30 June 1968, following a nostalgic ceremony, the regimental flag was lowered for the last time.


from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Inniskilling_Fusiliers

Roy

Kenya is mentioned here:-

http://www.inniskilling.com/history.htm

Look about halfway down the page (I think about the 12th and 14th paragraph mentions Kenya).

Some service deaths abroad are on Findmypast website

Kath. x

Thank you for all that information,I`ll have a look on FMP web site. and see if I can find anything out.
Many Thanks Again

Margaret