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'''Known as The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers'''
'''Known as The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers''' or '''The Royal Welch Fusiliers'''
== Chronology ==
== Chronology ==
*'''1689''' formed as Lord Herbert's Regiment of Foot
*'''1689''' formed as Lord Herbert's Regiment of Foot
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==British Library holdings==
==British Library holdings==
*''Historical Record of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, late the Twenty-third Regiment, or, Royal Welsh Fusiliers (The Prince of Wales’s Own Royal Regiment of Welsh Fuzeliers) : Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent services to 1889; in continuation of the compilation published in 1850''  by Rowland Broughton Mainwaring published 1889
*''Historical Record of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, late the Twenty-third Regiment, or, Royal Welsh Fusiliers (The Prince of Wales’s Own Royal Regiment of Welsh Fuzeliers) : Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent services to 1889; in continuation of the compilation published in 1850''  by Rowland Broughton Mainwaring published 1889
*''Regimental Records Of The Royal Welch Fusiliers - Volume II''  by A. D. L.Cary and Stouppe McCance  published 1923. The history of the regiment during the near hundred years separating Waterloo from the outbreak of the Great War, 1816-1914. The regiment saw action in the Indian Mutiny, Burmese War of 1885-87; the Black Mountain Expedition, 1891. A reprint is available to purchase through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/1845741773 FIBIS Shop]
*''Regimental Records Of The Royal Welch Fusiliers''
*''Old Soldier Sahib'' by Frank Richards published 1936. The life of a soldier in the first decade of the twentieth century, before the Great War, mainly in India and Burma. A reprint is available to purchase through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/1843425580 FIBIS Shop]
:''Volume I  1689-1815''  by A. D. L. Cary and Stouppe McCance  published 1921
:''Volume II''  by A. D. L. Cary and Stouppe McCance  published 1923. The history of the regiment during the near hundred years separating Waterloo from the outbreak of the Great War, 1816-1914. The regiment saw action in the Indian Mutiny, Burmese War of 1885-87; the Black Mountain Expedition, 1891.
:''Volume III 1914-1918, France and Flanders'' by  Major C. Dudley Ward  1928. This history ends  11 November 1918.
:''Volume IV  1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria'' by Major  C H Dudley Ward 1929.  
:These four volumes are available online, refer below.
: ''Volume V, 1918-1945. Part One, November 1918-May 1940'' by Jonathon Riley, Peter Crocker and Richard Sinnett 2019. "The first part of RR Volume V describes the later history of the war-raised units of the Regiment during the Great War and the reduction of the Regiment thereafter. It then details the campaigns and stations of the Regiment from 1919 to 1939 including service in Ireland, India, the North-West Frontier, Cyprus, Sudan, Shanghai, Gibraltar and Hong Kong" <ref>[https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/regimental-records-of-the-royal-welch-fusiliers-volume-v-1918-1945-part-one-november-1918-may-1940.php?sid=0617466451f723d15a7904dbbb524f01 ''Regimental Records Of The Royal Welch Fusiliers Volume V, 1918-1945. Part One, November 1918 - May 1940''] Published 2019. helion.co.uk</ref>; ''Volume V, 1918-1945. Part Two, June 1940-December 1945'' by Jonathon Riley, Peter Crocker and Richard Sinnett 2019.<ref>[https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/regimental-records-of-the-royal-welch-fusiliers-volume-v-1918-1945-part-two-june-1940-december-1945.php?sid=0617466451f723d15a7904dbbb524f01 ''Regimental Records Of The Royal Welch Fusiliers Volume V, 1918-1945. Part Two, June 1940 - December 1945''] Published 2019. helion.co.uk</ref>. UIN: BLL01019269040
:''Volume  VI, 1945-1969'' by by J P Riley 2001. UIN: BLL01006676782
:''Volume VII, 1969-2000'' by J P Riley 2001. UIN: BLL01009481243


== External Links ==
==Recommended Reading==
*''Old Soldier Sahib'' by  Frank Richards published 1936.  The life of a soldier in the first decade of the twentieth century, before the Great War, mainly in India and Burma. He was in the 2nd Battalion. A review is on [[Military reading list]].  There is a  further 2005 edition, annotated by  Krijnen and Langley, with many footnotes and illustrations. "Each page is annotated to give information on Frank Richards’s friends, his officers, the places where he served in India and Burma, dates, events and the language, for example".<ref>  [https://web.archive.org/web/20101228233824/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/book-reviews/101-armies/524-old-soldier-sahib.html  ''Old Soldier Sahib''] by Maurice Johnson. 26 June 2008, now an archived webpage. Western Front Association</ref>
 
== External links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers Royal Welch Fusiliers]  Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers Royal Welch Fusiliers]  Wikipedia
*[http://www.theroyalwelsh.org.uk/History.html History of the Royal Welsh] theroyalwelsh.org
*[http://www.theroyalwelsh.org.uk/History.html History of the Royal Welsh] theroyalwelsh.org
*[http://www.rwf-forum.co.uk/vBulletin/content.php?149-The-Vault The Royal Welch Forum: the Vault] includes [http://www.rwf-forum.co.uk/vBulletin/content.php?189-Deployments Deployments from 1881]
*[http://www.rwf-forum.co.uk The Royal Welch Forum]  
*[http://www.britisharmedforces.org/i_regiments/roywelchfus_index.htm The Royal Welch Fusiliers] British Armed Forces & National Service. Includes deployments from 1881
*[http://www.britisharmedforces.org/i_regiments/roywelchfus_index.htm The Royal Welch Fusiliers] British Armed Forces & National Service. Includes deployments from 1881
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071225172120/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/023RWF.htm  The Royal Welch Fusiliers] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071202171806/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/023-1.htm  1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071219061156/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/023-2.htm 2nd Battalion]. Regiments.org, an archived site.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071225172120/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/023RWF.htm  The Royal Welch Fusiliers] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071202171806/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/023-1.htm  1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071219061156/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/023-2.htm 2nd Battalion]. Regiments.org, an archived site.
*[http://www.rwfmuseum.org.uk/ The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum]
*[http://www.rwfmuseum.org.uk/ The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum]
*[http://www.cardiffcastlemuseum.org.uk/the-royal-welsh.html Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier] covers [[1st Dragoon Guards]], [[2nd Dragoon Guards]] or The Queen’s Bays, 23rd, [[24th Regiment of Foot|24th]] , [[41st Regiment of Foot|41st]] and [[69th Regiment of Foot|69th Regiments of Foot]].
*[http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/heritage/wrexham_museum.htm Wrexham County Borough Museum & Archives] holds some/all? regimental archives including Enlistment books (Army Book 358) from 1920. <ref>clive_hughes. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/210888-royal-artillery-attestations-1883-1942-on-findmypast/?do=findComment&comment=2370214  "Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942" on FindMyPast] ''Great War Forum'' 28 February 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2019.</ref>
*[http://royalwelsh.org.uk/regimental-museum-of-the-royal-welsh.shtml The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh (Brecon)]. Covers 23rd, (but does not hold any regimental archives),  [[24th Regiment of Foot|24th]], [[41st Regiment of Foot|41st]] and [[69th Regiment of Foot|69th Regiments of Foot]].
*[http://www.cardiffcastlemuseum.org.uk Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier] covers [[1st Dragoon Guards]], [[2nd Dragoon Guards]] or The Queen’s Bays, 23rd, [[24th Regiment of Foot|24th]], [[41st Regiment of Foot|41st]] and [[69th Regiment of Foot|69th Regiments of Foot]].
*[http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/british_regiment/royal_welsh_welch_fusiliers.htm  Medals of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers] northeastmedals.co.uk
*[http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/british_regiment/royal_welsh_welch_fusiliers.htm  Medals of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers] northeastmedals.co.uk


===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_48352#page/n27/mode/2up ''Historical Record of the Twenty-Third Regiment, or, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689 and of its subsequent services to 1850''] by Richard Cannon 1850 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_48352#page/n27/mode/2up ''Historical Record of the Twenty-Third Regiment, or, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689 and of its subsequent services to 1850''] by Richard Cannon 1850 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/royalwelchfusiliers1889/page/n13/mode/2up ''Historical Record of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, late the Twenty-third Regiment, Or, Royal Welsh Fusiliers (The Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Welsh Fuzeliers) Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1889''] by Major Rowland Broughton-Mainwaring 1889 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/storyroyalwelshfusiliers/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Story of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers''] by H Avray Tipping 1915 Archive.org. A publication for the general reader.
*[https://archive.org/details/royalwelchfusiliers-v1/page/n13/mode/2up ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (late the 23rd Foot) Volume 1, 1689-1815''] by A D L Cary and Stouppe McCance 1921. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/royalwelchfusiliersvol2/page/n13/mode/2up ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (late the 23rd Foot)  Volume 2, 1816-1914 (July)''] by A D L Cary and Stouppe McCance 1923 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/royalwelchfusiliersvol3/page/n9/mode/2up ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot) Volume 3, 1914-1918 France and Flanders''] by Major C H Dudley Ward 1928 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/regimentalrecord04dudl  ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot). Volume 4 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria''] by Major  C H Dudley Ward 1929 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/shorthistroyalwelshfusiliers/page/n9/mode/2up ''A Short History of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers''] by Major E O Skaife  2nd edition 1925. Archive.org.  A publication for regimental training purposes.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.447392 ''Goodbye To All That''] by Robert Graves. New edition revised, November 1957, 2nd edition March 1958. First published 1929. Archive.org. (Catalogued with a  different author). An autobiography, including his [[First World War]] experiences on the [[Western Front]]. Graves was in the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a Special Reserves Officer. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves Robert Graves] Wikipedia.
:Graves also wrote the historical novels [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81614 ''Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth''] by Robert Graves Second edition 1945, first published 1940 and  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207779 ''Proceed, Sergeant Lamb''] by Robert Graves, first published 1941 Archive.org. Historical novels about Sergeant Roger Lamb of the Twenty-Third,  in the American War 1775-83,  based on Lamb's ''Journal'' and  ''Memoir''.
== References ==
<references />


[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Latest revision as of 06:22, 19 March 2024

Known as The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers or The Royal Welch Fusiliers

Chronology

  • 1689 formed as Lord Herbert's Regiment of Foot
  • 1702 known as The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers
  • 1713 became Royal Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers
  • 1714 became the The Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Welch Fuzileers
  • 1723 became The Royal Regiment of Welch Fuzileers
  • 1747 ranked as 23rd Regiment of Foot
  • 1751 became 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welsh Fuzileers)
  • 1881 became The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
  • 1920 became The Royal Welch Fusiliers (ancient spelling of "Welch" officially restored, but regiment had always unofficially retained that style)
  • 2006 amalgamated with the Royal Regiment of Wales (RRW) to become 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh

British Library holdings

  • Historical Record of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, late the Twenty-third Regiment, or, Royal Welsh Fusiliers (The Prince of Wales’s Own Royal Regiment of Welsh Fuzeliers) : Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent services to 1889; in continuation of the compilation published in 1850 by Rowland Broughton Mainwaring published 1889
  • Regimental Records Of The Royal Welch Fusiliers
Volume I 1689-1815 by A. D. L. Cary and Stouppe McCance published 1921
Volume II by A. D. L. Cary and Stouppe McCance published 1923. The history of the regiment during the near hundred years separating Waterloo from the outbreak of the Great War, 1816-1914. The regiment saw action in the Indian Mutiny, Burmese War of 1885-87; the Black Mountain Expedition, 1891.
Volume III 1914-1918, France and Flanders by Major C. Dudley Ward 1928. This history ends 11 November 1918.
Volume IV 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria by Major C H Dudley Ward 1929.
These four volumes are available online, refer below.
Volume V, 1918-1945. Part One, November 1918-May 1940 by Jonathon Riley, Peter Crocker and Richard Sinnett 2019. "The first part of RR Volume V describes the later history of the war-raised units of the Regiment during the Great War and the reduction of the Regiment thereafter. It then details the campaigns and stations of the Regiment from 1919 to 1939 including service in Ireland, India, the North-West Frontier, Cyprus, Sudan, Shanghai, Gibraltar and Hong Kong" [1]; Volume V, 1918-1945. Part Two, June 1940-December 1945 by Jonathon Riley, Peter Crocker and Richard Sinnett 2019.[2]. UIN: BLL01019269040
Volume VI, 1945-1969 by by J P Riley 2001. UIN: BLL01006676782
Volume VII, 1969-2000 by J P Riley 2001. UIN: BLL01009481243

Recommended Reading

  • Old Soldier Sahib by Frank Richards published 1936. The life of a soldier in the first decade of the twentieth century, before the Great War, mainly in India and Burma. He was in the 2nd Battalion. A review is on Military reading list. There is a further 2005 edition, annotated by Krijnen and Langley, with many footnotes and illustrations. "Each page is annotated to give information on Frank Richards’s friends, his officers, the places where he served in India and Burma, dates, events and the language, for example".[3]

External links

Historical books online

Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (late the 23rd Foot) Volume 2, 1816-1914 (July) by A D L Cary and Stouppe McCance 1923 Archive.org.
Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot) Volume 3, 1914-1918 France and Flanders by Major C H Dudley Ward 1928 Archive.org.
Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot). Volume 4 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria by Major C H Dudley Ward 1929 Archive.org.
Graves also wrote the historical novels Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth by Robert Graves Second edition 1945, first published 1940 and Proceed, Sergeant Lamb by Robert Graves, first published 1941 Archive.org. Historical novels about Sergeant Roger Lamb of the Twenty-Third, in the American War 1775-83, based on Lamb's Journal and Memoir.

References

  1. Regimental Records Of The Royal Welch Fusiliers Volume V, 1918-1945. Part One, November 1918 - May 1940 Published 2019. helion.co.uk
  2. Regimental Records Of The Royal Welch Fusiliers Volume V, 1918-1945. Part Two, June 1940 - December 1945 Published 2019. helion.co.uk
  3. Old Soldier Sahib by Maurice Johnson. 26 June 2008, now an archived webpage. Western Front Association
  4. clive_hughes. "Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942" on FindMyPast Great War Forum 28 February 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2019.