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

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 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. He was in the 2nd Battalion. A reprint is available to purchase through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop

External Links

• Royal Welch Fusiliers Wikipedia
• History of the Royal Welsh theroyalwelsh.org
• The Royal Welch Forum: the Vault includes Deployments from 1881
• The Royal Welch Fusiliers British Armed Forces & National Service. Includes deployments from 1881
• The Royal Welch Fusiliers including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion. Regiments.org, an archived site.
• The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum
• 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.
• Medals of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers northeastmedals.co.uk
• 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers graves Hong Kong, c 1900, a post from the Victorian Wars Forum. Also see Hong Kong.
• Victorian Wars Forum 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

• 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