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, 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. Amalgamation On 1 July 1968, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, the Royal Ulster Rifles and the Royal Irish Fusiliers became the Royal Irish Rangers (27th Inniskilling, 83rd and 87th). The date of 1 July was chosen as it marked the fifty-second anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, in which battalions of all three merging regiments fought. Regimental museum The Inniskillings Museum (for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards) is based at Enniskillen Castle Battle honours Borne on the Regimental Colours (including the combined honours of the 27th and 108th Foot): Martinique 1762 ¶ Havannah ¶ St Lucia 1778–96 ¶ Maida † Busaco † Badajoz † Salamanca † Vittoria † Pyrenees † Nivelle † Orthes † Toulouse Peninsula † Waterloo † South Africa 1835, 1846–47♦ Central India ‡ Relief of Ladysmith South Africa 1899–1902 † Awarded to 27th Foot‡ Awarded to 108th Foot ¶ Awarded in 1909 for services of the 27th Foot ♦ Awarded in 1882 for services of 27th Foot Borne on the Queen's Colour (10 selected honours each for the First and Second World Wars): Le Cateau Somme 1916, '18 Ypres, 1917, '18 St Quentin Hindenburg Line France & Flanders Macedonia, 1915–17 Landing at Helles Gallipoli, 1915–16 Palestine, 1917–18 North-West Europe 1940 Djebel Tanngoucha North Africa, 1942–43 Centuripe Sicily, 1943 Garigliano Crossing Cassino II Italy, 1943–45 Yenangyaung, 1942 Burma, 1942–43 The Regimental Chapel The Regimental chapel is in St Macartin's Cathedral, Enniskillen. Great War memorials Ulster Tower Memorial, Thiepval, France. Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Dublin. Island of Ireland Peace Park, Messines, Belgium. Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. County Fermanagh War Memorial, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland Victoria Cross Recipients of the Victoria Cross: Captain Gerald Robert O'Sullivan, 1st Battalion. 1/2 July 1915, Gallipoli. Sergeant James Somers, 1st Battalion. 1/2 July 1915, Gallipoli. Captain Eric Norman Frankland Bell, (attached to 4th Trench Mortar Battery) 1 July 1916, Thiepval. Lieutenant Colonel John Sherwood-Kelly (Norfolk Regiment) CMG DSO, commanding 1st