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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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==Recommended Reading== | ==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]] | + | *''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> [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/book-reviews/101-armies/524-old-soldier-sahib.html ''Old Soldier Sahib''] by Maurice Johnson. 26 June 2008. Western Front Association</ref> |
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
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*[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.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> LST_164 [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=210888&p=2370214 "Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942" on FindMyPast] ''Great War Forum'' 27 February 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2016.</ref> | ||
*[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.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 | ||
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===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 | ||
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Revision as of 23:21, 27 February 2016
Known as The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers or The Royal Welch Fusiliers
Contents
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.
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".[1]
External Links
- Royal Welch Fusiliers Wikipedia
- History of the Royal Welsh theroyalwelsh.org
- The Royal Welch Forum
- 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
- Wrexham County Borough Museum & Archives holds some/all? regimental archives including Enlistment books (Army Book 358) from 1920. [2]
- 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
- Victorian Wars Forum
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
References
- ↑ Old Soldier Sahib by Maurice Johnson. 26 June 2008. Western Front Association
- ↑ LST_164 "Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942" on FindMyPast Great War Forum 27 February 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
