Uniform
Accommodating the traditions of the three regiments required compromise:
- The caubeen was adopted as the headdress for the new Regiment as all the former regiments had worn it
- The green hackle was formerly worn by the Royal Irish Fusiliers
- The Castle collar badges had been worn by the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
- The black buttons had been worn by the Royal Ulster Rifles
- The brown cross belt was a compromise between the brown Sam Browne belts worn by the Fusiliers and the black cross belt worn in the Rifles
- The Great Irish Warpipes carried by the Royal Ulster Rifles pipers and the Brian Boru Pipes carried by The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers pipers were abandoned in favour of the Great Highland Bagpipe, which thus became standardised throughout the British Army.
- The badges of the three regiments were worn on the kilts of the regimental pipers.
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