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:''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>[httpsThis history ends 11 November 1918.://www.naval-military-press.com/product/regimental-records-of-the-royal-welch-fusiliers-vol-iii-1914''Volume IV 1915-1918Turkey-franceBulgaria-and-flanders/ Austria''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 by Major 11 November 1918C H Dudley Ward 1929.: The three These four 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/military-history-books/regimental-records-of-the-royal-welch-fusiliers-volume-v-1918-1945-part-one-november-1918-may-1940.html php?sid=0617466451f723d15a7904dbbb524f01 ''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/military-history-books/regimental-records-of-the-royal-welch-fusiliers-volume-v-1918-1945-part-two-june-1940-december-1945.html php?sid=0617466451f723d15a7904dbbb524f01 ''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
*''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 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
===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/royalwelchfusiliers1889/page/n13/mode/2up ''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''] by Major Rowland Broughton-Mainwaring 1889 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/storyroyalwelshfusiliers/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Story of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers''] by H Avray Tipping 1915 Archive.org. A publication for the general reader. *[https://archive.org/details/royalwelchfusiliers-v1/page/n13/mode/2up ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (late the 23rd Foot) Volume 1, 1689-1815''] by A D L Cary and Stouppe McCance 1921. Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/royalwelchfusiliersvol2/page/n13/mode/2up ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (late the 23rd Foot) Volume 2, 1816-1914 (July)''] by A D L Cary and Stouppe McCance 1923 Archive.org.:[https://archive.org/details/royalwelchfusiliersvol3/page/n9/mode/2up ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot) Volume 3, 1914-1918 France and Flanders''] by Major C H Dudley Ward 1928 Archive.org. :[https://archive.org/details/regimentalrecord04dudl ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot). Volume IV 4 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria''] by Major C H Dudley Ward 1929 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/shorthistroyalwelshfusiliers/page/n9/mode/2up ''A Short History of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers''] by Major E O Skaife 2nd edition 1925. Archive.org. A publication for regimental training purposes.
*[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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