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==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 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] ==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. Available at the [[British Library]]. A reprint review is available to purchase through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/1843425580 FIBIS Shop] . Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=7862&p=34986#p34937 thread] about a 2005 edition of ''Old Soldier Sahib'', 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". Stated to be available at the [[British LibraryMilitary reading list]] (although not in the catalogue)
== External Links ==
*[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.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.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://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.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=7750 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers graves Hong Kong], c 1900, a post from the Victorian Wars Forum. Also see [[Hong Kong]].*Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4930&p=18352#p19851 post] about a set of drums in silver made in India c 1908 for the 2nd RWF. Scroll down to the post dated 1 March 2011 by grumpy.
===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
