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The
Welch Regiment
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crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
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| 1881.07.01 | The
Welsh Regiment organised as the county regiment of Carmarthenshire, Glamorganshire and Pembrokeshire, encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions: |
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| 1921.01.01 | The Welch Regiment | |
| 1969.06.11 | amalgamated with The South Wales Borderers, to form The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) | |
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The History of The Welch Regiment (RRW Museum site) | |
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The Welch Regiment Fact Sheets (RRW Museum) | |
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The Welsh Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War). | |
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The Welsh Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) | |
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RHQ: 
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| 41st Regimental District at Cardiff [1881-1905] | ||
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| L Group at Brecon [1946-1948] | ||
| Welsh Brigade at Brecon [1948-1968] | ||
| Prince of Wales's Division at Lichfield [1968-1969] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1881-1969] | ||
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| 2nd Battalion [1881-1948] | ||
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| Militia and Special Reserve: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (Royal Glamorgan
Light Infantry) [1881-1953] |
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| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
| 1st (Pembrokeshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 2nd (Glamorgan) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 3rd (Glamorgan) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| [4th VB] 3rd Glamorganshire Volunteer Rifle Corps [1881-1908] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1908-1971] | ||
| 5th (Glamorgan) Battalion [1908-1967] | ||
| 5th/6th Battalion [1967-1971] | ||
| 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion [1908-1940] | ||
| 6th Battalion [1956-1967] | ||
| 7th (Cyclist) Battalion [1908-1920] | ||
| Welsh Volunteers [1967-1969] | ||
| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 2/4th Battalion [1915-1915]
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| 4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
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| 2/5th Battalion [1915-1915]
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| 2/5th Battalion [1939-1947]
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| 5th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 2/6th Battalion [1914-1915]
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| 6th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 2/7th (Cyclist) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 3/7th (Cyclist) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 8th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers)
[1914-1919] |
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| 9th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 10th (1st Rhondda) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1919] |
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| 11th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 12th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 13th (2nd Rhondda) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1919] |
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| 14th (Swansea) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1919] |
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| 15th (Carmarthenshire) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1919] |
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| 15th (Carmarthenshire) Battalion
[1939-1947] |
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| 16th (Cardiff) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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| 16th (Home Defence) Battalion
[1939-1941] |
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| 17th (1st Glamorgan) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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| 17th (Home Defence) Battalion
[1939-1941] |
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| 18th (2nd Glamorgan) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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| 18th Battalion [1940-1944]
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| 19th (Service) Battalion (Glamorgan Pioneers)
[1914-1919] |
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| 19th Battalion [1940-1943]
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| 20th (3rd Reserve) Battalion
[1914-1916] |
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| 21st (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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| 22nd (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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| 23rd (Service) Battalion (Welsh Pioneers
[1915-1919] |
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| 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry)
Battalion [1917-1919] |
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| 25th (Service) Battalion [1918-1918]
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| 30th Battalion [1941-1944]
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| 31st Battalion [1941-1943]
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| 50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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| 51st (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| 52nd (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| 53rd (Service) Battalion [1917-1919]
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battle honours of
41st Regiment, and 69th Regiment,
plus:]
Belleisle1, Martinique 17622, [12th April 1782]3, St. Vincent4, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902 The Great War [34 battalions]: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, Ypres 1914 '15 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Messines 1917 '18, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Arras 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Struma, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Suvla, Sari Bair, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Jerusalem, Jericho, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Nablus, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-18 The Second World War: Falaise, Lower Maas, Reichswald, North-West Europe 1944-45, Benghazi, North Africa 1940-42, Sicily 1943, Coriano, Croce, Rimini Line, Ceriano Ridge, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45, Crete, Canea, Withdrawal to Sphakia, Middle East 1941, Kyaukmyaung Bridgehead, Maymyo, Rangoon Road, Sittang 1945, Burma 1944-45 1. awarded
1951 for service of
69th Regiment. |
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| Uniform: | 1881-1953 scarlet;
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| 1881 | [1st Bn:] Gen. Sir Richard England, GCB, KH [also 50th Foot] | |
| 1881 | [2nd Bn:] Gen. David Elliott Mackirdy [also 54th Foot] | |
| 1883.01.20 | Gen. Julius Edmund Goodwyn, CB [also Gloucestershire Regt] | |
| 1894.01.16 | Gen. Francis Peyton, CB [also N Staffs Regt] | |
| 1904.01.31 | Maj-Gen. William Allan | |
| 1918.07.13 | Maj-Gen. Sir Alexander Bruce Tulloch, KCB, CMG | |
| 1920.05.26 | Maj-Gen. Sir Thomas Owen Marden, KBE, CB, CMG | |
| 1941.01.17 | Maj-Gen. Douglas Povah Dickinson, CB, DSO, OBE, MC [also Col. Cmdt. King's African Rifles] | |
| 1949.01.08 | Maj-Gen. Cyril Ernest Napier Lomax, CB, CBE, DSO, MC | |
| 1958.01.08 | Lt-Gen. Sir Cyril Frederick Charles Coleman, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE | |
| 1965.11.20 | Maj-Gen. Frank Hastings Brooke, CB, CBE, DSO [to 1969] | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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VCs in the Welch Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
| Motto: | Gwell angau na Chywilydd | ||
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| Anniversaries: | Gheluvelt (31 Oct.) | ||
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The Ontario Regiment | 1928-1969 | |
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45th Battalion (The St. George Regiment) | 1934-1960 | |
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The Royal New South Wales Regiment | 1967-1969 | |
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Regimental Discussion Area (RRW Regimental site) | |
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The Welch Regiment Museum, Cardiff (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Carmarthen Museum, Carmarthen (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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The Welch Regiment Museum, Cardiff (Simonides listing) | |
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Museums of The Royal Regiment of Wales (Museum site) | |
| Regimental Journal: | ||
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The men of Harlech. No.1 (Mar. 1893)-no. 148 (May 1969). | |
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First World War: |
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Lewis, Bernard. Swansea Pals. Beverley: Pen and Sword, 2005. ISBN:1844152529 | |
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