[2] A few years later on 12 April 1870, Two companies from the 7th Battalion, London Light Infantry, were called out on active service.
It served as part of the Alberta Column of the North West Field Force.
[8] On 6 August 1914, details of the 7th Regiment, Fusiliers, were placed on active service for local protection duties.
[2] On 29 March 1920, as a result of the Otter Commission and the following post-war reorganization of the militia, the 7th Regiment Fusiliers was redesignated as the Western Ontario Regiment and was reorganized with three battalions to perpetuate the assigned war-raised battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
[10][11] On 29 January 1942, the 1st Battalion, The Canadian Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), CASF, was mobilized for active service.
It served in Canada in a home defence role as part of Pacific Command and as the machine gun battalion of the 6th Canadian Infantry Division.
[3] On 1 October 1954, as a result on the Kennedy Report on the Reserve Army, the Canadian Fusiliers were amalgamated with the Oxford Rifles to become the London and Oxford Fusiliers (3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment) and subsequently became the reserve battalion of the RCR.
The regimental headdress consisted of the bearskin fusilier busby with a white plume similar to that of its British Army counterpart.