The Royal Munster Fusiliers was a regular infantry

Infantry

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 regiment

Regiment

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 of the British Army

British Army

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. One of eight Irish regiments raised largely in Ireland

Ireland

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, it had its home depot

Royal Munster Fusiliers (Reserves)

The Royal Munster Fusiliers held the 'home' Depot for their three Reserve Battalions at Ballymullen Barracks, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, where since 1881 most of the regiment’s recruits enlisted in peacetime and received their first training before being assigned to regular battalions...

 in Tralee. It was originally formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of two regiments of the former East India Company. It served in India and in the Great War. Following establishment of the independent Irish Free State

Irish Free State

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 in 1922, the five regiments that had their traditional recruiting grounds in the counties of the new state were disbanded.