41st Regiment of Foot

Known as The Welsh Regiment

Chronology

• 1719 raised by General Edmund Fielding out of independent companies of invalids and Chelsea out-pensioners
• 1741 renamed the Royal Invalids
• 1751 became the 41st Regiment of Foot
• 1782 became the 41st (Royal Invalids) Regiment of Foot
• 1787 became a conventional line regiment reverting to 41st Regiment of Foot
• 1831 became the 41st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 united with 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot to become 1st Battalion The Welch Regiment
• 1969 amalgamated with The South Wales Borderers to form The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)
• 2006 amalgamated with The Royal Welch Fusiliers to form 2nd Battalion, The Royal Welsh (The Royal Regiment of Wales)

British India Service

• 1st Burma War
• Candahar 1842
• Ghuznee 1842
• Cabool 1842

External Links

• 41st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
  
• The Welch Regiment Wikipedia
• 41st (the Welsh) Regiment of Foot including deployments www.regiments.org, an archived website
• The Welch Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived website.
• Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier covers 1st Dragoon Guards, 2nd Dragoon Guards or The Queen’s Bays, 23rd, 24th , 41st and 69th Regiments of Foot.

Historical books online

• The Diary of Sergeant William Hall, …, late of Her Majesty’s Forty-First Regiment, containing The Incidents connected with two years campaign in Scinde and Affghanistan during the late War c 1848 Google Books. Covers the period 1837 to 1842.The regiment sailed from the south of India in October 1840, to Karachi, from where the regiment proceeded to Afghanistan page 36