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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
==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> [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 ==
*[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> 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.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
== References ==
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