Many famous people have served their countries when the need arose. Here are just a handful of Fusilier soldiers who either left their fame behind to fight, or rose to fame, or infamy, after service.
Billy Cotton
Alfred George "Baishe" Bower
Sir Michael Caine
Paddy Roy Bates
The Kray Twins
David Ben-Gurion
Guy du Maurier
Meinertzhagen: Hero or Fraud?
Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO
Mrs Cunliffe-Owen
Founder of the Sportsman's Battalions