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23rd Regiment of Foot

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'''Known as The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers''' or '''The Royal Welch Fusiliers'''
== Chronology ==
*'''1689''' formed as Lord Herbert's Regiment of Foot
*'''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 I 1689-1815'' by A. D. L. Cary and Stouppe McCance published 1921:''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.:''Volume III 1914-1918, France and Flanders'' by Major C. Dudley Ward 1928.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/regimental-records-of-the-royal-welch-fusiliers-vol-iii-1914-1918-france-and-flanders/ ''Regimental Records Of The Royal Welch Fusiliers – Vol III. 1914-1918. France And Flanders''] naval-military-press.com. Volumes I an II are also available from naval-military-press.com. </ref> This history ends 11 November 1918.: The three volumes are part of UIN: BLL01001097310 . Volume IV is available online, refer below.: ''Volume V, 1918-1945. Part One, November 1918-May 1940'' by Jonathon Riley, Peter Crocker and Richard Sinnett 2019. "The first part of RR Volume V describes the later history of the war-raised units of the Regiment during the Great War and the reduction of the Regiment thereafter. It then details the campaigns and stations of the Regiment from 1919 to 1939 including service in Ireland, India, the North-West Frontier, Cyprus, Sudan, Shanghai, Gibraltar and Hong Kong" <ref>[https://www.helion.co.uk/regimental-records-of-the-royal-welch-fusiliers-volume-v-1918-1945-part-one-november-1918-may-1940.html ''Regimental Records Of The Royal Welch Fusiliers Volume V, 1918-1945. Part One, November 1918 - May 1940''] Published 2019. helion.co.uk</ref>; ''Volume V, 1918-1945. Part Two, June 1940-December 1945'' by Jonathon Riley, Peter Crocker and Richard Sinnett 2019.<ref>[https://www.helion.co.uk/regimental-records-of-the-royal-welch-fusiliers-volume-v-1918-1945-part-two-june-1940-december-1945.html ''Regimental Records Of The Royal Welch Fusiliers Volume V, 1918-1945. Part Two, June 1940 - December 1945''] Published 2019. helion.co.uk</ref>. UIN: BLL01019269040:''Volume VI, 1945-1969'' by by J P Riley 2001. UIN: BLL01006676782:''Volume VII, 1969-2000'' by J P Riley 2001. UIN: BLL01009481243 ==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".<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20101228233824/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/book-reviews/101-armies/524-old-soldier-sahib.html ''Old Soldier Sahib''] by Maurice Johnson. 26 June 2008, now an archived webpage. Western Front Association</ref> 
== 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 deploymentsfrom 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.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>clive_hughes. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/210888-royal-artillery-attestations-1883-1942-on-findmypast/?do=findComment&comment=2370214 "Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942" on FindMyPast] ''Great War Forum'' 28 February 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2019.</ref>
*[http://royalwelsh.org.uk/regimental-museum-of-the-royal-welsh.shtml The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh (Brecon)]. Covers 23rd, (but does not hold any regimental archives), [[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
 
===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
*[https://archive.org/details/regimentalrecord04dudl ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot). Volume IV 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria''] by Major C H Dudley Ward 1929 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.447392 ''Goodbye To All That''] by Robert Graves. New edition revised, November 1957, 2nd edition March 1958. First published 1929. Archive.org. (Catalogued with a different author). An autobiography, including his [[First World War]] experiences on the [[Western Front]]. Graves was in the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a Special Reserves Officer. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves Robert Graves] Wikipedia.
:Graves also wrote the historical novels [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81614 ''Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth''] by Robert Graves Second edition 1945, first published 1940 and [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207779 ''Proceed, Sergeant Lamb''] by Robert Graves, first published 1941 Archive.org. Historical novels about Sergeant Roger Lamb of the Twenty-Third, in the American War 1775-83, based on Lamb's ''Journal'' and ''Memoir''.
 
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