23rd Regiment of Foot

Known as The Welsh Regiment of 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

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 FIBIS Shop
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 FIBIS Shop