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style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">23rd Regiment of Foot Welch Regiment of Fusiliers Royal Welch Regiment of Fusiliers Royal Welch Fusiliers</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers_Cap_Badge.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers_Cap_Badge.jpg/220px-Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers_Cap_Badge.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers_Cap_Badge.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="276" data-file-height="414" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Cap badge</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Active</th><td class="infobox-data">16 March 1689 – 28 February 2006</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> (1801–2006)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="710" data-file-height="406" /> <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Infantry" title="Infantry">Infantry</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Role</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Line_infantry" title="Line infantry">Line infantry</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Size</th><td class="infobox-data">1–2 <a href="/wiki/Standing_army" title="Standing army">Regular</a> battalions 4–12 <a href="/wiki/Volunteer_Force_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="Volunteer Force (Great Britain)">Volunteer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Army_Reserve_(United_Kingdom)" title="Army Reserve (United Kingdom)">Territorial</a> battalions Up to 25 hostilities-only battalions</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Garrison/HQ</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hightown_Barracks" title="Hightown Barracks">Hightown Barracks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wrexham" title="Wrexham">Wrexham</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Nickname(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">The Nanny Goats<a href="#cite_note-Burnham-1">[1]</a> The Royal Goats<a href="#cite_note-Burnham-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Motto(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ich_Dien" class="mw-redirect" title="Ich Dien">Ich Dien</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Anniversaries</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/St._David%27s_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="St. David's Day">St. David's Day</a> (1 March)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Engagements</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Williamite_War_in_Ireland" title="Williamite War in Ireland">Williamite War in Ireland</a> <a href="/wiki/Nine_Years%27_War" title="Nine Years' War">Nine Years' War</a> <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession" title="War of the Spanish Succession">War of the Spanish Succession</a> <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Austrian_Succession" title="War of the Austrian Succession">War of the Austrian Succession</a> <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a> <a href="/wiki/American_War_of_Independence" class="mw-redirect" title="American War of Independence">American War of Independence</a> <a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">French Revolutionary Wars</a> <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a> <a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a> <a href="/wiki/Second_China_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second China War">Second China War</a> <a href="/wiki/Indian_Mutiny" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Mutiny">Indian Mutiny</a> <a href="/wiki/Third_Anglo-Burmese_War" title="Third Anglo-Burmese War">Third Anglo-Burmese War</a> <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a> <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a> <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Troubles" title="The Troubles">The Troubles</a> <a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars" title="Yugoslav Wars">Yugoslav Wars</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Ceremonial chief</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles III of the United Kingdom">The King</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Colonel of the Regiment</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Major-general_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Major-general (United Kingdom)">Major-General</a> Brian Plummer</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Insignia</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Tactical Recognition Flash</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/File:RWF_TRF.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/RWF_TRF.svg/100px-RWF_TRF.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/RWF_TRF.svg/150px-RWF_TRF.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/RWF_TRF.svg/200px-RWF_TRF.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Hackle</th><td class="infobox-data">White</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> The Royal Welch Fusiliers (<a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a>: Ffiwsilwyr Brenhinol Cymreig) was a <a href="/wiki/Line_infantry" title="Line infantry">line infantry</a> <a href="/wiki/Regiment" title="Regiment">regiment</a> of the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a>, and part of the <a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Wales%27s_Division" title="Prince of Wales's Division">Prince of Wales's Division</a>, that was founded in 1689; shortly after the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a>. In 1702, it was designated a <a href="/wiki/Fusilier" title="Fusilier">fusilier</a> regiment and became the Welch Regiment of Fusiliers; the prefix "Royal" was added in 1713, then confirmed in 1714 when <a href="/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain" title="George I of Great Britain">George I</a> named it the Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers. In 1751, after reforms that standardised the naming and numbering of regiments, it became the 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welsh Fuzileers). In 1881, the final title of the regiment was adopted. It retained the archaic spelling of Welch, instead of <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Welsh</a>, and Fuzileers for Fusiliers; these were engraved on swords carried by regimental officers during the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> After the 1881 <a href="/wiki/Childers_Reforms" title="Childers Reforms">Childers Reforms</a>, normal spelling was used officially, but "Welch" continued to be used informally until restored in 1920 by Army Order No.56. It should not be confused with the <a href="/wiki/Welch_Regiment" title="Welch Regiment">Welch Regiment</a>, a different unit (formed in 1881 from the 41st and 69th) which recruited in South and West, rather than North Wales, and became part of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Wales" title="Royal Regiment of Wales">Royal Regiment of Wales</a> or RRW in 1969.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> One of the few regiments to retain its original title, in March 2006 the Royal Welch Fusiliers was amalgamated with the RRW and became 1st Battalion, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Welsh" title="Royal Welsh">Royal Welsh</a>, with RRW as the 2nd Battalion. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Henry_Herbert_Soest.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Henry_Herbert_Soest.jpg/150px-Henry_Herbert_Soest.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Henry_Herbert_Soest.jpg/225px-Henry_Herbert_Soest.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Henry_Herbert_Soest.jpg/300px-Henry_Herbert_Soest.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1499" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Henry_Herbert,_4th_Baron_Herbert_of_Chirbury" title="Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Chirbury">Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Chirbury</a>, founder of the regiment</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Formation;_1689_to_1773">Formation; 1689 to 1773</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Formation; 1689 to 1773">edit</a>]</div> The regiment was raised by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Herbert,_4th_Baron_Herbert_of_Chirbury" title="Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Chirbury">Henry Herbert</a> at <a href="/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow">Ludlow</a> on 16 March 1689, following the 1688 <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a> and exile of <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England">James II</a>.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsRWF-6">[6]</a> It served throughout the 1689 to 1691 <a href="/wiki/Williamite_War_in_Ireland" title="Williamite War in Ireland">Williamite War in Ireland</a>, including the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Boyne" title="Battle of the Boyne">Battle of the Boyne</a> in July 1690,<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aughrim" title="Battle of Aughrim">Battle of Aughrim</a> in 1691 which brought the campaign to an end.<a href="#cite_note-cannon13-8">[8]</a> It joined Allied forces fighting in the <a href="/wiki/Nine_Years_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Nine Years War">Nine Years War</a> and at <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Namur_(1695)" title="Siege of Namur (1695)">Namur</a> in August 1695, took part in the attack on the Terra Nova earthwork that inspired the song '<a href="/wiki/The_British_Grenadiers" title="The British Grenadiers">The British Grenadiers</a>.'<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> On the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession" title="War of the Spanish Succession">War of the Spanish Succession</a> in 1702, it became the Welch Regiment of Fuzilieers; this denoted <a href="/wiki/Fusilier" title="Fusilier">units equipped with light-weight muskets</a> or 'fusils' used to protect the artillery, although the distinction later became obsolete.<a href="#cite_note-The_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers-10">[10]</a> It served throughout <a href="/wiki/John_Churchill,_1st_Duke_of_Marlborough" title="John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough">Marlborough</a>'s campaigns in the Low Countries, including the battles of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Schellenberg" title="Battle of Schellenberg">Schellenberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Blenheim" title="Battle of Blenheim">Blenheim</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ramillies" title="Battle of Ramillies">Ramillies</a>.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> In 1714, <a href="/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain" title="George I of Great Britain">George I</a> gave it the title of the Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers. The next 28 years were spent on garrison duty in England and Scotland, until it returned to <a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flanders</a> in 1742 for the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Austrian_Succession" title="War of the Austrian Succession">War of the Austrian Succession</a>. At <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dettingen" title="Battle of Dettingen">Dettingen</a> in June 1743, it rallied after being driven back by the <a href="/wiki/Maison_militaire_du_roi_de_France" title="Maison militaire du roi de France">elite French Maison du Roi cavalry</a>; its steadiness was a major contribution to what is considered a fortunate victory.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> It incurred 323 casualties at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fontenoy" title="Battle of Fontenoy">Fontenoy</a> in May 1745, before a brief period in <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745" title="Jacobite rising of 1745">1745 Rising</a>. Over 240 members of the regiment were lost at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lauffeld" title="Battle of Lauffeld">Lauffeld</a> in July 1747, a defeat that led to the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Aix-la-Chapelle_(1748)" title="Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)">Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Fortescue,_p._161-13">[13]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Colored_Print_Battle_of_Minden_1785.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Colored_Print_Battle_of_Minden_1785.jpeg/250px-Colored_Print_Battle_of_Minden_1785.jpeg" decoding="async" width="250" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Colored_Print_Battle_of_Minden_1785.jpeg/375px-Colored_Print_Battle_of_Minden_1785.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Colored_Print_Battle_of_Minden_1785.jpeg/500px-Colored_Print_Battle_of_Minden_1785.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="533" data-file-height="329" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Minden" title="Battle of Minden">Minden</a>, 1 August 1759, an action still celebrated as <a href="/wiki/Minden_Day" title="Minden Day">Minden Day</a></figcaption></figure> Following the 1751 reforms that standardised naming and numbering of regiments, it became the 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welsh Fuzileers).<a href="#cite_note-The_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers-10">[10]</a> In the opening battle of the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>, it was part of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Minorca_(1756)" title="Battle of Minorca (1756)">Minorca garrison</a> that surrendered to the French in June 1756; given free passage to Gibraltar, from 1758 it campaigned in Germany. At <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Minden" title="Battle of Minden">Minden</a> in August 1759, it was one of the infantry units that routed the French cavalry, an achievement still celebrated as <a href="/wiki/Minden_Day" title="Minden Day">Minden Day</a> by their successor unit, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Welsh" title="Royal Welsh">Royal Welsh</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Fortescue,_p._161-13">[13]</a> Between 1760 and 1762, it fought in the battles of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Warburg" title="Battle of Warburg">Warburg</a>,<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kloster_Kampen" title="Battle of Kloster Kampen">Kloster Kampen</a> 1760<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wilhelmsthal" title="Battle of Wilhelmsthal">Wilhelmsthal</a> in June 1762, before the war ended with the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1763)" title="Treaty of Paris (1763)">1763 Treaty of Paris</a>.<a href="#cite_note-WestlakeWelsh-16">[16]</a> When the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> began in 1773, the regiment was posted to <a href="/wiki/British_North_America" title="British North America">North America</a>.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Light_infantry" title="Light infantry">light infantry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grenadier" title="Grenadier">grenadier</a> companies took heavy losses at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bunker_Hill" title="Battle of Bunker Hill">Battle of Bunker Hill</a> in June 1775;<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> it participated in nearly every campaign up to the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown" title="Siege of Yorktown">Siege of Yorktown</a> in September 1781.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> At Yorktown, it was the only British regiment not to surrender its colours, which were smuggled out by a junior officer.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> In the early stages of the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">French Revolutionary Wars</a>, it was posted to the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a> in 1794 and participated in the 1795 capture of <a href="/wiki/Port-au-Prince" title="Port-au-Prince">Port-au-Prince</a> before returning home in 1796.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> As part of the expeditionary force assigned to the 1799 <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Russian_invasion_of_Holland" title="Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland">Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland</a>, it fought at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Alkmaar_(1799)" title="Battle of Alkmaar (1799)">Alkmaar</a> in October 1799.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:23rd_royal_welsh_fusiliers.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/23rd_royal_welsh_fusiliers.JPG/130px-23rd_royal_welsh_fusiliers.JPG" decoding="async" width="130" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/23rd_royal_welsh_fusiliers.JPG/195px-23rd_royal_welsh_fusiliers.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/23rd_royal_welsh_fusiliers.JPG/260px-23rd_royal_welsh_fusiliers.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption> 23rd Royal Welch Fusilier guarding a statue of <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington</a> in London.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 19th century">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Invasion_of_Martinique_(1809)_Monument,_St._George%27s_Church,_Halifax,_Nova_Scotia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Invasion_of_Martinique_%281809%29_Monument%2C_St._George%27s_Church%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg/220px-Invasion_of_Martinique_%281809%29_Monument%2C_St._George%27s_Church%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Invasion_of_Martinique_%281809%29_Monument%2C_St._George%27s_Church%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg/330px-Invasion_of_Martinique_%281809%29_Monument%2C_St._George%27s_Church%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Invasion_of_Martinique_%281809%29_Monument%2C_St._George%27s_Church%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg/440px-Invasion_of_Martinique_%281809%29_Monument%2C_St._George%27s_Church%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2407" data-file-height="3210" /></a><figcaption>Monument to Royal Welch Fusiliers who died in the <a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Nova_Scotia#Invasion_of_Martinique_(1809)" title="Military history of Nova Scotia">Invasion of Martinique (1809)</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._George%27s_(Round)_Church,_Halifax,_Nova_Scotia" class="mw-redirect" title="St. George's (Round) Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia">St. George's (Round) Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia</a></figcaption></figure> Apart from <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Alexandria_(1801)" title="Battle of Alexandria (1801)">Battle of Alexandria</a> in 1801 and the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Martinique_(1809)" title="Invasion of Martinique (1809)">Invasion of Martinique</a> in 1809 the regiment saw little action in the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a> until being sent to the <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsula</a> in 1810.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> Between 1811 and 1814, it fought in many of <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Wellington</a>'s actions, including the battles of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Albuera" title="Battle of Albuera">Albuera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Second_Siege_of_Badajoz_(1811)" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Siege of Badajoz (1811)">Badajoz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Salamanca" title="Battle of Salamanca">Salamanca</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Nivelle" title="Battle of Nivelle">Nivelle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Toulouse_(1814)" title="Battle of Toulouse (1814)">Toulouse</a>.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> At the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Battle of Waterloo</a> in June 1815, it was part of <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_colonel_(United_Kingdom)" title="Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)">Lieutenant Colonel</a> <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Henry_Mitchell" title="Hugh Henry Mitchell">Hugh Mitchell</a>'s 4th Brigade in the 4th Infantry Division.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> In the nineteenth century, the regiment took part in the <a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Second_Opium_War" title="Second Opium War">Second Opium War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857" title="Indian Rebellion of 1857">Indian Mutiny</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Third_Anglo-Burmese_War" title="Third Anglo-Burmese War">Third Anglo-Burmese War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Cardwell_Reforms" title="Cardwell Reforms">Cardwell Reforms</a> of 1872 linked most infantry regiments in pairs, but because the 23rd already had two battalions it was unaffected. Cardwell also introduced 'Localisation of the Forces', which established permanent regimental depots in county towns and brigaded the regular regiments with their local <a href="/wiki/Militia_(United_Kingdom)" title="Militia (United Kingdom)">Militia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Volunteer_Force" title="Volunteer Force">Volunteer</a> battalions.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> For the 23rd, this included:<a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-List-28">[28]</a> <ul><li>23rd Brigade Depot at <a href="/wiki/Hightown_Barracks" title="Hightown Barracks">Hightown Barracks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wrexham" title="Wrexham">Wrexham</a> from 1873<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Anglesey_Light_Infantry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Royal Anglesey Light Infantry (page does not exist)">Royal Anglesey Light Infantry</a> – converted to Engineers in 1877<a href="#cite_note-FrederickMil-30">[30]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Flint_Rifles" title="Royal Flint Rifles">Royal Flint Rifles</a><a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-FrederickMil-30">[30]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Denbigh_and_Merioneth_Rifles" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Denbigh and Merioneth Rifles">Royal Denbigh and Merioneth Rifles</a><a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-FrederickMil-30">[30]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Carnarvon_Rifles" title="Royal Carnarvon Rifles">Royal Carnarvon Rifles</a><a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-FrederickMil-30">[30]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1st_Administrative_Battalion,_Denbighshire_Rifle_Volunteers" class="mw-redirect" title="1st Administrative Battalion, Denbighshire Rifle Volunteers">1st Administrative Battalion, Denbighshire Rifle Volunteers</a><a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-WestlakeDen-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsDen-32">[32]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1st_Flintshire_Rifle_Volunteers#Volunteer_Force" title="1st Flintshire Rifle Volunteers">1st Administrative Battalion, Flintshire & Carnarvonshire Rifle Volunteers</a><a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-WestlakeCarn-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsCarn-34">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-WestlakeFlint-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsFlint-36">[36]</a></li></ul> The <a href="/wiki/Childers_Reforms" title="Childers Reforms">Childers Reforms</a> of 1881 took Cardwell's reforms further. The regiments were given names rather than numbers the regiment officially became The Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 1 July 1881,<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> although "Welch" was used informally until restored in 1920 by Army Order No.56.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> The depot became the 23rd Regimental District depot, and the militia and volunteers became numbered battalions of their linked regiment (though the Royal Flint Rifles joined the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Royal_Rifle_Corps" title="King's Royal Rifle Corps">King's Royal Rifle Corps</a><a href="#cite_note-FrederickMil-30">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a>): <ul><li><a href="/wiki/3rd_(Royal_Denbigh_and_Merioneth_Militia)_Battalion,_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd (Royal Denbigh and Merioneth Militia) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers">3rd (Royal Denbigh and Merioneth Militia) Battalion</a> – 3rd (Royal Denbigh and Flint Militia) Battalion from 1889<a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-FrederickMil-30">[30]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_(Royal_Carnarvon_Militia)_Battalion,_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="4th (Royal Carnarvon Militia) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers">4th (Royal Carnarvon Militia) Battalion</a> – 4th (Royal Carnarvon and Merioneth Militia) Battalion from 1889<a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-FrederickMil-30">[30]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1st_Volunteer_Battalion,_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers">1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers</a> – from 1st Denbighshire Volunteers'<a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-WestlakeDen-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsDen-32">[32]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Volunteer_Battalion,_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers">2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers</a> – from 1st Flintshire & Carnarvon Volunteers'<a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-WestlakeFlint-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsFlint-36">[36]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Volunteer_Battalion,_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers">3rd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers</a> – formed in 1897 from the Carnarvonshire companies of the 2nd VB<a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-WestlakeCarn-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsCarn-34">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-WestlakeFlint-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsFlint-36">[36]</a></li></ul> The 1st battalion served in the 1899 to 1902 <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a>;<a href="#cite_note-WestlakeWelsh-16">[16]</a> and returned home from South Africa on the SS Ortona in January 1903.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> The 2nd battalion was stationed at <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> from 1898 to 1902, and served in the multinational force involved in the <a href="/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion" title="Boxer Rebellion">Boxer Rebellion</a> in China in 1900.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> They fought alongside the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">United States Marine Corps</a> (see pages 32–33 in official USMC paper published in 1995).<a href="#cite_note-usmc-42">[42]</a> They transferred to <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">India</a> in October 1902, and were stationed at <a href="/wiki/Chakrata" title="Chakrata">Chakrata</a>.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 20th century">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Colour_of_the_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Colour_of_the_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers.jpg/150px-Colour_of_the_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Colour_of_the_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers.jpg/225px-Colour_of_the_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Colour_of_the_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers.jpg/300px-Colour_of_the_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2308" data-file-height="1904" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Regimental_Colour" class="mw-redirect" title="Regimental Colour">Regimental Colour</a> of the 6th (Caernarvonshire and Anglesey) Battalion, a Territorial unit of the Royal Welch Fusiliers<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:5th_Battalion,_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers_Cigarette_Card.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/5th_Battalion%2C_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers_Cigarette_Card.jpg/220px-5th_Battalion%2C_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers_Cigarette_Card.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="420" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/5th_Battalion%2C_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers_Cigarette_Card.jpg/330px-5th_Battalion%2C_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers_Cigarette_Card.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/5th_Battalion%2C_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers_Cigarette_Card.jpg 2x" data-file-width="415" data-file-height="793" /></a><figcaption>Player's cigarette card showing a <a href="/wiki/Pioneer_(military)" title="Pioneer (military)">pioneer</a> of the 5th (Flintshire) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 1908 in full dress uniform.</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Haldane_Reforms" title="Haldane Reforms">Haldane Reforms</a> of 1908 converted the remaining Militia into the <a href="/wiki/Special_Reserve" title="Special Reserve">Special Reserve</a> (SR) and the Volunteers into the <a href="/wiki/Territorial_Force" title="Territorial Force">Territorial Force</a> (TF).<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> The battalions were now numbered sequentially within their regiment. The TF battalions of the RWF were given subtitles in 1909:<a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-List-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsRWF-6">[6]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/3rd_(Reserve)_Battalion,_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers">3rd (Reserve) Battalion</a> (SR) at <a href="/wiki/Poyser_Street_drill_hall,_Wrexham" title="Poyser Street drill hall, Wrexham">Poyser Street</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wrexham" title="Wrexham">Wrexham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_(Denbighshire)_Battalion,_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="4th (Denbighshire) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers">4th (Denbighshire) Battalion</a> (TF) at Poyser Street, Wrexham<a href="#cite_note-WestlakeDen-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsDen-32">[32]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_(Flintshire)_Battalion,_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="5th (Flintshire) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers">5th (Flintshire) Battalion</a> (TF) at Castle Precinct in <a href="/wiki/Flint,_Flintshire" title="Flint, Flintshire">Flint</a> (since demolished)<a href="#cite_note-WestlakeFlint-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsFlint-36">[36]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6th_(Caernarvonshire_and_Anglesey)_Battalion,_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" title="6th (Caernarvonshire and Anglesey) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers">6th (Carnarvonshire & Anglesey) Battalion</a> (TF) at <a href="/wiki/Caernarfon_Barracks" title="Caernarfon Barracks">Caernarfon Barracks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Caernarfon" title="Caernarfon">Caernarfon</a><a href="#cite_note-WestlakeCarn-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsCarn-34">[34]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7th_(Merionethshire_and_Montgomeryshire)_Battalion,_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" title="7th (Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers">7th (Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire) Battalion</a> (TF) at <a href="/wiki/Back_Lane_drill_hall,_Newtown" title="Back Lane drill hall, Newtown">Back Lane Drill Hall</a> in <a href="/wiki/Newtown,_Powys" title="Newtown, Powys">Newtown, Montgomeryshire</a> – transferred from the <a href="/wiki/South_Wales_Borderers" title="South Wales Borderers">South Wales Borderers</a><a href="#cite_note-WestlakeMont-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-RegtsM&M-49">[49]</a></li></ul> The four TF Battalions constituted the <a href="/wiki/158th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="158th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">North Wales Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/53rd_(Welsh)_Infantry_Division" title="53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division">Welsh Division</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Becke53-50">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-TrailRWF-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-Trail53-52">[52]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="First_World_War;_Regular_Army">First World War; Regular Army</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: First World War; Regular Army">edit</a>]</div> The 1st and 2nd battalions served on the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a> from 1914 to 1918 and took part in some of the hardest fighting of the war, including <a href="/wiki/Mametz_Wood_Memorial" title="Mametz Wood Memorial">Mametz Wood</a> in 1916 and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Passchendaele" title="Battle of Passchendaele">Passchendaele or Third Ypres</a> in 1917.<a href="#cite_note-James-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-trail-54">[54]</a> Claims in 2008 they participated in the semi-mythical <a href="/wiki/Christmas_truce" title="Christmas truce">Christmas 1914 Football Game</a> with the Germans have since been disproved.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> A number of writers fought with the regiment in France and recorded their experiences; <a href="/wiki/David_Cuthbert_Thomas" title="David Cuthbert Thomas">David Thomas</a> (killed 1916), <a href="/wiki/Robert_Graves" title="Robert Graves">Robert Graves</a> and <a href="/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon" title="Siegfried Sassoon">Siegfried Sassoon</a> all served with the 1st Battalion. <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Adams_(writer)" title="Bernard Adams (writer)">John Bernard Pye Adams</a>, a captain with the 1st Battalion, was wounded in 1916, and while on medical leave, wrote Nothing of Importance, his recollections of trench life. Adams did not live to see its publication — after returning to the front in January 1917, he died in action a month later.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> His book, published a few months after his death, was the only memoir of trench experiences published in Great Britain during the war<a href="#cite_note-cas-57">[57]</a> and was well received by both <a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Daily_Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Telegraph">Daily Telegraph</a>.<a href="#cite_note-malvernian-58">[58]</a> <a href="/wiki/J._C._Dunn" title="J. C. Dunn">J C Dunn</a>, a medical officer with the 2nd Battalion who had also served in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">1899–1902 Boer War</a>, published The War the Infantry Knew in 1931. A collection of letters and diary entries from over 50 individuals, it is considered a classic by military historians for its treatment of daily life and death in the trenches.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> <a href="/wiki/Good-Bye_to_All_That" title="Good-Bye to All That">Good-Bye to All That</a> by Robert Graves was first published in 1929 and has never been out of print; in one anecdote, he records the Regimental Goat Major being charged with 'prostituting the Royal Goat' in return for a <a href="/wiki/Stud_(animal)" title="Stud (animal)">stud fee</a>.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> Graves also edited Old Soldiers Never Die, published in 1933; a rare example of the war seen by an ordinary soldier, it was written by <a href="/wiki/Francis_Philip_Woodruff" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis Philip Woodruff">Frank Richards</a>, a pre-war regular recalled in 1914, who served on the Western Front until the end of the war.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> The poets <a href="/wiki/David_Jones_(artist-poet)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Jones (artist-poet)">David Jones</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hedd_Wyn" title="Hedd Wyn">Hedd Wyn</a>, killed at Passchendaele in 1917, were members of Kitchener battalions.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hedd_Wyn_Grave_at_Artillery_Wood_Cemetery_7.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Hedd_Wyn_Grave_at_Artillery_Wood_Cemetery_7.jpg/150px-Hedd_Wyn_Grave_at_Artillery_Wood_Cemetery_7.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Hedd_Wyn_Grave_at_Artillery_Wood_Cemetery_7.jpg/225px-Hedd_Wyn_Grave_at_Artillery_Wood_Cemetery_7.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Hedd_Wyn_Grave_at_Artillery_Wood_Cemetery_7.jpg/300px-Hedd_Wyn_Grave_at_Artillery_Wood_Cemetery_7.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3168" data-file-height="4752" /></a><figcaption>The grave of Welsh poet <a href="/wiki/Hedd_Wyn" title="Hedd Wyn">Hedd Wyn</a>, killed at Passchendaele in 1917</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="First_World_War;_Territorial_and_War_Service">First World War; Territorial and War Service</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: First World War; Territorial and War Service">edit</a>]</div> The TF battalions raised 2nd and 3rd Line battalions; in addition, the regiment raised over a dozen 'war service' battalions, informally known as <a href="/wiki/Kitchener%27s_Army" title="Kitchener's Army">Kitchener</a> or <a href="/wiki/Pals_battalion" title="Pals battalion">Pals battalions</a>.<a href="#cite_note-James-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-trail-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> The 4th (Denbighshire) Battalion was one of the first TF units to see active service, landing in France in November 1914, where it remained until January 1919.<a href="#cite_note-James-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-trail-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> Between 1915 and 1918, another 10 Royal Welch Kitchener battalions also fought on the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a>, including the battles of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Loos" title="Battle of Loos">Loos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme" title="Battle of the Somme">the Somme</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Passchendaele" title="Battle of Passchendaele">Passchendaele</a>; a number of these were disbanded in early 1918 due to manpower shortages. The poets <a href="/wiki/David_Jones_(artist-poet)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Jones (artist-poet)">David Jones</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hedd_Wyn" title="Hedd Wyn">Hedd Wyn</a> served with The 11th (Service) Battalion landed in <a href="/wiki/Thessaloniki" title="Thessaloniki">Salonika</a> in November 1915, where it remained for the duration of the war.<a href="#cite_note-James-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> The 5th, 6th, 7th Territorial battalions fought at <a href="/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallipoli Campaign">Gallipoli</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/53rd_(Welsh)_Infantry_Division" title="53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division">53rd (Welsh) Division</a>; by January 1916, it contained 162 officers and 2,428 men, approximately 15% of full strength.<a href="#cite_note-Becke53-50">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-Trail53-52">[52]</a> The 8th Kitchener Battalion was also at Gallipoli as part of <a href="/wiki/13th_(Western)_Division" title="13th (Western) Division">13th (Western) Division</a>. They remained in the Middle East until the end of the war, the 53rd (Welsh) taking part in the <a href="/wiki/Sinai_and_Palestine_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinai and Palestine Campaign">Sinai and Palestine Campaign</a> and the 13th (Western) in the <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamian_campaign" title="Mesopotamian campaign">Mesopotamian campaign</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Becke53-50">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-Trail53-52">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-James-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-trail-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Interwar">Interwar</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Interwar">edit</a>]</div> The TF was reformed in 1920 and reorganised as the <a href="/wiki/Territorial_Army_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Territorial Army (United Kingdom)">Territorial Army</a> (TA) the following year. In 1938 the 5th (Flintshire) Battalion was converted into <a href="/wiki/60th_(Royal_Welch_Fusiliers)_Anti-Tank_Regiment,_Royal_Artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="60th (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery">60th (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery</a>. Just before the outbreak of World War II the Territorial Army was doubled in size and the battalions created duplicates:<a href="#cite_note-Frederick302-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/8th_(Denbighshire)_Battalion,_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="8th (Denbighshire) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers">8th (Denbighshire) Battalion</a> – from the 4th Bn</li> <li><a href="/wiki/9th_(Caernarvonshire_and_Anglesey)_Battalion,_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="9th (Caernarvonshire and Anglesey) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers">9th (Caernarvonshire & Anglesey) Battalion</a> – from the 6th Bn</li> <li><a href="/wiki/10th_(Merionethshire_and_Montgomeryshire)_Battalion,_Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="10th (Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers">10th (Merionethshire & Montgomeryshire) Battalion</a> – from the 7th Bn</li> <li><a href="/wiki/70th_(Royal_Welch_Fusiliers)_Anti-Tank_Regiment,_Royal_Artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="70th (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery">70th Anti-Tank Regiment</a> – from the 60th Rgt; granted Royal Welch Fusiliers subtitle in 1942)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Second_World_War;_Regular_Army">Second World War; Regular Army</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Second World War; Regular Army">edit</a>]</div> The regiment was awarded 27 <a href="/wiki/Battle_honour" title="Battle honour">battle honours</a> for <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, with more than 1,200 fusiliers killed in action or died of wounds.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_British_Army_in_France_1940_F2913.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/The_British_Army_in_France_1940_F2913.jpg/150px-The_British_Army_in_France_1940_F2913.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/The_British_Army_in_France_1940_F2913.jpg/225px-The_British_Army_in_France_1940_F2913.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/The_British_Army_in_France_1940_F2913.jpg/300px-The_British_Army_in_France_1940_F2913.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="628" /></a><figcaption>Men of the 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers celebrate St David's Day, 1 March 1940</figcaption></figure> During the Second World War, the 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers was a <a href="/wiki/Regular_army" title="Regular army">Regular Army</a> unit and part of the <a href="/wiki/6th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="6th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">6th Infantry Brigade</a>, assigned to the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Infantry_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom)">2nd Infantry Division</a>. It served in France in 1940 with the <a href="/wiki/British_Expeditionary_Force_(World_War_II)" title="British Expeditionary Force (World War II)">British Expeditionary Force</a>.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> The battalion fought in the short but fierce battles of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">France</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Belgium" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Belgium">Belgium</a> and was forced to retreat and be evacuated during the <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation" title="Dunkirk evacuation">Dunkirk evacuation</a>. After two years spent in the United Kingdom, waiting and preparing for the invasion that never came (<a href="/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion" title="Operation Sea Lion">Operation Sea Lion</a>), the 1st RWF and the rest of 2nd Division were sent to <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British India</a> to fight the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Imperial Japanese Army</a> after a string of defeats inflicted upon the British and Indian troops. The battalion was involved in the <a href="/wiki/Burma_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Burma Campaign">Burma Campaign</a>, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kohima" title="Battle of Kohima">Battle of Kohima</a>, nicknamed <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Stalingrad</a> of the East due to the ferocity of fighting on both sides, that helped to turn the tide of the campaign in the <a href="/wiki/South-East_Asian_theatre_of_World_War_II" title="South-East Asian theatre of World War II">South East Asian theatre</a>.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> The 2nd Battalion was part of <a href="/wiki/29th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="29th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">29th Independent Infantry Brigade</a> throughout the war. In 1942, it fought in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Madagascar" title="Battle of Madagascar">Battle of Madagascar</a>, then part of <a href="/wiki/Vichy_French" class="mw-redirect" title="Vichy French">Vichy French</a>, before being transferred to the <a href="/wiki/South-East_Asian_Theatre_of_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="South-East Asian Theatre of World War II">South-East Asian Theatre</a>. In 1944, the battalion and brigade became part of <a href="/wiki/36th_Infantry_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="36th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)">36th British Infantry Division</a>, previously an Indian Army formation.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_British_Army_in_Burma_1944_SE2889.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/The_British_Army_in_Burma_1944_SE2889.jpg/150px-The_British_Army_in_Burma_1944_SE2889.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/The_British_Army_in_Burma_1944_SE2889.jpg/225px-The_British_Army_in_Burma_1944_SE2889.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/The_British_Army_in_Burma_1944_SE2889.jpg/300px-The_British_Army_in_Burma_1944_SE2889.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="782" /></a><figcaption>Royal Welsh Fusiliers move forward on a jungle path near Pinbaw, <a href="/wiki/Burma" class="mw-redirect" title="Burma">Burma</a>, December 1944</figcaption></figure> Both battalions came under the command of <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant-general_(United_Kingdom)" title="Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)">Lieutenant-General</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Slim,_1st_Viscount_Slim" title="William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim">Bill Slim</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/Fourteenth_Army_(United_Kingdom)" title="Fourteenth Army (United Kingdom)">British Fourteenth Army</a>. This was known as the 'Forgotten Fourteenth,' allegedly because it fought in a theatre that seemed largely unnoticed and had little importance to the war.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Second_World_War;_Territorial_and_War_Service">Second World War; Territorial and War Service</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Second World War; Territorial and War Service">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fusilier_Tom_Payne_from_11_Platoon,_%27B%27_Company,_6th_Battalion,_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers,_Normandy,_12_August_1944._B9005.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Fusilier_Tom_Payne_from_11_Platoon%2C_%27B%27_Company%2C_6th_Battalion%2C_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers%2C_Normandy%2C_12_August_1944._B9005.jpg/150px-Fusilier_Tom_Payne_from_11_Platoon%2C_%27B%27_Company%2C_6th_Battalion%2C_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers%2C_Normandy%2C_12_August_1944._B9005.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Fusilier_Tom_Payne_from_11_Platoon%2C_%27B%27_Company%2C_6th_Battalion%2C_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers%2C_Normandy%2C_12_August_1944._B9005.jpg/225px-Fusilier_Tom_Payne_from_11_Platoon%2C_%27B%27_Company%2C_6th_Battalion%2C_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers%2C_Normandy%2C_12_August_1944._B9005.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Fusilier_Tom_Payne_from_11_Platoon%2C_%27B%27_Company%2C_6th_Battalion%2C_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers%2C_Normandy%2C_12_August_1944._B9005.jpg/300px-Fusilier_Tom_Payne_from_11_Platoon%2C_%27B%27_Company%2C_6th_Battalion%2C_Royal_Welsh_Fusiliers%2C_Normandy%2C_12_August_1944._B9005.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1772" data-file-height="1855" /></a><figcaption>Fusilier Tom Payne of 11 Platoon, 'B' Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, <a href="/wiki/Normandy" title="Normandy">Normandy</a>, 12 August 1944</figcaption></figure> The 4th, 6th and 7th Battalions, all <a href="/wiki/Army_Reserve_(United_Kingdom)" title="Army Reserve (United Kingdom)">Territorial</a> units, served in <a href="/wiki/158th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="158th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">158th (Royal Welch) Brigade</a> assigned to the <a href="/wiki/53rd_(Welsh)_Infantry_Division" title="53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division">53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division</a>.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> They took part in the <a href="/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord">Battle of Normandy</a> at <a href="/wiki/Operation_Jupiter_(1944)" title="Operation Jupiter (1944)">Hill 112</a>, where the 53rd Division suffered heavy casualties. Due to heavy fighting and casualties in Normandy, some of the battalions were posted to different brigades within the division. The 53rd again suffered heavily during <a href="/wiki/Operation_Veritable" title="Operation Veritable">Operation Veritable</a> (the Battle of the Reichswald) under command of the <a href="/wiki/First_Canadian_Army" title="First Canadian Army">First Canadian Army</a>, in which action the British and Canadians, and the 53rd Division in particular, endured some of the fiercest fighting of the entire European Campaign against <a href="/wiki/Fallschirmj%C3%A4ger_(World_War_II)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fallschirmjäger (World War II)">German paratroops</a>.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> The 8th, 9th and 10th Battalions were 2nd Line Territorial battalions raised in 1939 as duplicates of the 4th, 6th and 7th Battalions respectively. The battalions initially served in the <a href="/wiki/115th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="115th Brigade (United Kingdom)">115th (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Brigade</a>, <a href="/wiki/38th_(Welsh)_Infantry_Division" title="38th (Welsh) Infantry Division">38th (Welsh) Division</a>, itself a 2nd Line duplicate of the 53rd (Welsh) Division.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> The 8th and 9th battalions never saw action abroad, remaining in the UK throughout the war in a training role, supplying trained replacements to units overseas. In this capacity, the 9th battalion served with the <a href="/wiki/80th_Infantry_(Reserve)_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="80th Infantry (Reserve) Division (United Kingdom)">80th Infantry (Reserve) Division</a> and the 38th Infantry (Reserve) Division.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_British_Army_in_North-west_Europe_1944-45_B12617.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/The_British_Army_in_North-west_Europe_1944-45_B12617.jpg/180px-The_British_Army_in_North-west_Europe_1944-45_B12617.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/The_British_Army_in_North-west_Europe_1944-45_B12617.jpg/270px-The_British_Army_in_North-west_Europe_1944-45_B12617.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/The_British_Army_in_North-west_Europe_1944-45_B12617.jpg/360px-The_British_Army_in_North-west_Europe_1944-45_B12617.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="506" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/3-inch_mortar" class="mw-redirect" title="3-inch mortar">3-inch mortar</a> of the 7th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 8 December 1944</figcaption></figure> In the summer of 1942, the 10th battalion was converted into the <a href="/wiki/6th_(Royal_Welch)_Parachute_Battalion" title="6th (Royal Welch) Parachute Battalion">6th (Royal Welch) Battalion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Parachute_Regiment_(United_Kingdom)" title="Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)">Parachute Regiment</a>.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> The 6th Parachute Battalion was assigned to the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Parachute_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="2nd Parachute Brigade (United Kingdom)">2nd Parachute Brigade</a>, alongside the <a href="/wiki/4th_Battalion,_Parachute_Regiment" title="4th Battalion, Parachute Regiment">4th</a> and <a href="/wiki/5th_(Scottish)_Parachute_Battalion" title="5th (Scottish) Parachute Battalion">5th</a> Parachute battalions, originally part of the <a href="/wiki/1st_Airborne_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom)">1st Airborne Division</a>. The battalion played a small part in the <a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Italy" title="Allied invasion of Italy">Allied invasion of Italy</a> during <a href="/wiki/Operation_Slapstick" title="Operation Slapstick">Operation Slapstick</a>, an amphibious landing aimed at capturing the port of Taranto. After that, the 2nd Para Brigade became an independent brigade group. The brigade took part in <a href="/wiki/Operation_Dragoon" title="Operation Dragoon">Operation Dragoon</a>, the Allied invasion of Southern France, being the only British troops to do so (see <a href="/wiki/2nd_Parachute_Brigade_in_Southern_France" title="2nd Parachute Brigade in Southern France">2nd Parachute Brigade in Southern France</a>).<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> In late 1944, the brigade was sent to Greece to support pro-Western forces in the <a href="/wiki/Greek_Civil_War" title="Greek Civil War">Greek Civil War</a>, a forgotten but brutal episode now seen as the first act of the post-1945 <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> In 1938, the 5th Battalion transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Artillery" title="Royal Artillery">Royal Artillery</a> as 60th Anti-Tank Regiment and in 1939, added a 2nd-Line duplicate, 70th Anti-Tank Regiment.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> Unlike 1914–1918, there were relatively few service battalions, one being 11th (Home Defence) Battalion, raised in 1939 as part of the <a href="/wiki/Home_Guard_(United_Kingdom)" title="Home Guard (United Kingdom)">Home Guard</a>.<a href="#cite_note-RegtsRWF-6">[6]</a> Formed in 1940, the 12th battalion became <a href="/wiki/116th_Light_Anti-Aircraft_Regiment,_Royal_Artillery" title="116th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery">116th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery</a> in January 1942 and served with <a href="/wiki/53rd_(Welsh)_Infantry_Division" title="53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division">53rd (Welsh) Division</a> until disbanded in December 1944.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post_Second_World_War">Post Second World War</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Post Second World War">edit</a>]</div> The 2nd Battalion Royal Welch remained overseas after the Second World War, with a posting to Burma (still a colony until 4 January 1948) and performed internal security duties. On 7 March 1947 a party aboard a train were ambushed by bandits and seven soldiers were killed.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> The regiment did not take part in the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a>, but did perform several tours in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> (<a href="/wiki/Operation_Banner" title="Operation Banner">Operation Banner</a>) before being deployed to the Balkans.<a href="#cite_note-nam-85">[85]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars" title="Yugoslav Wars">Yugoslav Wars</a>, the regiment came to attention when 33 of their men and 350 other <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">UN</a> servicemen part of <a href="/wiki/UNPROFOR" class="mw-redirect" title="UNPROFOR">UNPROFOR</a> were taken hostage by Bosnian Serbs at <a href="/wiki/Gora%C5%BEde" title="Goražde">Goražde</a> on 28 May 1995.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a><a href="#cite_note-nyt-87">[87]</a> The situation caused some political debate as the UN troops had been given orders only to "deter attacks" and did not have a mandate or adequate equipment to fully defend the mainly Muslim town of Goražde, which was initially declared "safe" by the UN, thus rendering them exposed when armed members of the <a href="/wiki/Army_of_Republika_Srpska" title="Army of Republika Srpska">Army of Republika Srpska</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bosnian_Serb" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosnian Serb">Bosnian Serb</a> Army) ignored the <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> ultimatum and attacked the town without warning. The regiment managed to hold off the Bosnian Serbs until they were forced to retreat into <a href="/wiki/Bunker" title="Bunker">bunkers</a> – those who did not make it quickly enough were taken hostage – and remained trapped underground while <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina">BiH Army</a> reinforcements arrived and fought back. The <a href="/wiki/Commanding_officer" title="Commanding officer">commanding officer</a>, Lt Col <a href="/wiki/Jonathon_Riley_(British_Army_officer)" title="Jonathon Riley (British Army officer)">Jonathon Riley</a> (later promoted to Lieutenant General), broke with protocol and directly reported to then Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a> about the situation over the phone while in the bunker.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> All the men were eventually safely rescued. An unprecedented five gallantry awards, seven <a href="/wiki/Mention_in_Despatches" class="mw-redirect" title="Mention in Despatches">mentions in despatches</a> and two <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Commendation_for_Valuable_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service">Queen's Commendations for Valuable Service</a> were awarded to the regiment.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> Although the incident was largely unreported at that time, the regiment was credited in hindsight by observers for saving the town from a possible genocide—after failing to take Goražde, the Bosnian Serbs continued south to <a href="/wiki/Srebrenica" title="Srebrenica">Srebrenica</a>, where they would <a href="/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre" title="Srebrenica massacre">massacre</a> over 8,000 <a href="/wiki/Bosniak" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosniak">Bosniaks</a>.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Amalgamation">Amalgamation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Amalgamation">edit</a>]</div> It was one of only five line infantry regiments never to have been amalgamated in its entire history, the others being <a href="/wiki/Royal_Scots" title="Royal Scots">The Royal Scots</a>, <a href="/wiki/Green_Howards" title="Green Howards">The Green Howards</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire_Regiment" title="Cheshire Regiment">The Cheshire Regiment</a>, and <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Scottish_Borderers" title="King's Own Scottish Borderers">The King's Own Scottish Borderers</a>. However, in 2004, it was announced that, as part of the restructuring of the infantry, the Royal Welch Fusiliers would merge with the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Wales" title="Royal Regiment of Wales">Royal Regiment of Wales</a> to form a new large regiment, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Welsh" title="Royal Welsh">Royal Welsh</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nam-85">[85]</a> To honour the links between the regiment and the United States Marine Corps on the 16 September 1945 a set of Marine colours were presented to the regiment at the parish church in Wrexham to commemorate their close connection (see page 32 in official USMC paper published in 1995).<a href="#cite_note-usmc-42">[42]</a> The regiment has a chapel within St Giles Parish Church Wrexham containing their colours and other items.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> There is an image available taken in 2013.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regimental_museum">Regimental museum</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Regimental museum">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers_Museum" title="Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum">Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum</a> is located in <a href="/wiki/Caernarfon" title="Caernarfon">Caernarfon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Battle_honours">Battle honours</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Battle honours">edit</a>]</div> The regiment was awarded the following battle honours:<a href="#cite_note-RegtsRWF-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-List-28">[28]</a> <ul><li>Namur 1695, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Minden, Egypt</li> <li>Peninsular War: Corunna, Martinique 1809, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Albuhera" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Albuhera">Albuhera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Badajoz_(1812)" title="Siege of Badajoz (1812)">Badajoz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Salamanca" title="Battle of Salamanca">Salamanca</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vitoria" title="Battle of Vitoria">Vittoria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Pyrenees" title="Battle of the Pyrenees">Pyrenees</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Nivelle" title="Battle of Nivelle">Nivelle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Orthes" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Orthes">Orthes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Toulouse_(1814)" title="Battle of Toulouse (1814)">Toulouse</a>, Peninsula</li> <li>Napoleonic War: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Waterloo</a></li> <li>Crimean War: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Alma" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Alma">Alma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Inkerman" title="Battle of Inkerman">Inkerman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sevastopol" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Sevastopol">Sevastopol</a></li> <li>Lucknow, Ashantee 1873–1874, Burma 1885–1887, <a href="/wiki/Relief_of_Ladysmith" title="Relief of Ladysmith">Relief of Ladysmith</a>, South Africa 1899–1902, Pekin 1900</li> <li>First World War: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mons" title="Battle of Mons">Mons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Le_Cateau" title="Battle of Le Cateau">Le Cateau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Retreat_from_Mons" class="mw-redirect" title="Retreat from Mons">Retreat from Mons</a>, <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_the_Marne" title="First Battle of the Marne">Marne 1914</a>, <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_the_Aisne" title="First Battle of the Aisne">Aisne 1914 '18</a>, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914 '17 '18, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Bullecourt, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–1918, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917–1918, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915–1918, Suvla, Sari Bair, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915–1916, Rumani, Egypt 1915–1917, Gaza, El Mughar, Jerusalem, Jericho, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Nablus, Palestine 1917–1918, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916–1918</li> <li>Second World War: Dyle, Defence of Escaut, St. Omer-La Bassée, Caen, Esquay, Falaise, Nederrijn, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Weeze, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Aller, North-West Europe 1940 '44–45, Madagascar, Middle East 1942, Donbaik, North Arakan, Kohima, Mandalay, Ava, Burma 1943–1945</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Victoria_Crosses">Victoria Crosses</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Victoria Crosses">edit</a>]</div> The following members of the regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross: <ul><li>Captain <a href="/wiki/Edward_William_Derrington_Bell" title="Edward William Derrington Bell">Edward William Derrington Bell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a> (20 September 1854)<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a></li> <li>Lieutenant <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bernard_Hackett" title="Thomas Bernard Hackett">Thomas Bernard Hackett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857" title="Indian Rebellion of 1857">Indian Rebellion of 1857</a> (18 November 1857)<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a></li> <li>Company Sergeant Major <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Barter" title="Frederick Barter">Frederick Barter</a>, <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> (16 May 1915)<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a></li> <li>Corporal <a href="/wiki/John_Collins_(VC)" title="John Collins (VC)">John Collins</a>, First World War (31 October 1917)<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a></li> <li>Corporal <a href="/wiki/James_Llewellyn_Davies" title="James Llewellyn Davies">James Llewellyn Davies</a>, First World War (31 July 1917)<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a></li> <li>Corporal <a href="/wiki/Joseph_John_Davies" title="Joseph John Davies">Joseph John Davies</a>, First World War (20 July 1916)<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a></li> <li>Lt-Colonel <a href="/wiki/Charles_Doughty-Wylie" title="Charles Doughty-Wylie">Charles Doughty-Wylie</a>, First World War (26 April 1915)<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a></li> <li>Private <a href="/wiki/Albert_Hill_(VC)" title="Albert Hill (VC)">Albert Hill</a>, First World War (20 July 1916)<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colour_sergeant" title="Colour sergeant">Colour-Sergeant</a> <a href="/wiki/Luke_O%27Connor" title="Luke O'Connor">Luke O'Connor</a>, Crimean War (20 September 1854)<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lance_sergeant" title="Lance sergeant">Lance-Sergeant</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Herbert_Waring" title="William Herbert Waring">William Herbert Waring</a>, First World War (18 September 1918)<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lance_corporal" title="Lance corporal">Lance-Corporal</a> <a href="/wiki/Henry_Weale" title="Henry Weale">Henry Weale</a>, First World War (26 August 1918)<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Colonels-in-Chief">Colonels-in-Chief</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Colonels-in-Chief">edit</a>]</div> The Colonels-in-Chief of the Regiment were:<a href="#cite_note-RegtsRWF-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-List-28">[28]</a> <ul><li>1901: <a href="/wiki/George_V" title="George V">King George V</a></li> <li>1936: <a href="/wiki/George_VI" title="George VI">King George VI</a></li> <li>1953: <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regimental_Colonels">Regimental Colonels</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Regimental Colonels">edit</a>]</div> The Colonels of the Regiment were:<a href="#cite_note-RegtsRWF-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-List-28">[28]</a> <ul><li>1689: Col. <a href="/wiki/Henry_Herbert,_4th_Baron_Herbert_of_Chirbury" title="Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Chirbury">Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Chirbury</a></li> <li>1689–1691: Col. Charles Herbert</li> <li>1691–1692: Col. <a href="/wiki/Toby_Purcell" title="Toby Purcell">Toby Purcell</a></li> <li>1692–1693: Col. Sir John Morgan, 2nd Baronet</li> <li>1693–1705: Lt-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Richard_Ingoldsby_(British_Army_officer,_died_1712)" title="Richard Ingoldsby (British Army officer, died 1712)">Richard Ingoldsby</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>The Royal Regiment of Welch Fuzileers (1723)</dt></dl> <ul><li>1705–1739: Gen. <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Sabine_(British_Army_officer)" title="Joseph Sabine (British Army officer)">Joseph Sabine</a></li> <li>1739–1743: Col. Newsham Peers</li> <li>1743–1761: Gen. <a href="/wiki/John_Huske" title="John Huske">John Huske</a></li> <li>1761–1775: Lt-Gen. Hon <a href="/wiki/George_Boscawen_(British_Army_officer,_born_1712)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Boscawen (British Army officer, born 1712)">George Boscawen</a></li> <li>1775–1786: Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Howe,_5th_Viscount_Howe" title="William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe">William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe</a>, KB</li> <li>1786–1823: Gen. <a href="/wiki/Richard_Grenville_(1742%E2%80%931823)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Grenville (1742–1823)">Richard Grenville</a></li> <li>1823–1851: Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Sir_James_Willoughby_Gordon,_1st_Baronet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir James Willoughby Gordon, 1st Baronet">James Willoughby Gordon, Bt.</a>, GCB, GCH</li> <li>1851–1855: Lt-Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/George_Charles_D%27Aguilar" class="mw-redirect" title="George Charles D'Aguilar">George Charles D'Aguilar</a>, KCB</li> <li>1855–1860: Lt-Gen. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Henry_Rainey_(British_Army_officer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry Rainey (British Army officer) (page does not exist)">Henry Rainey</a>, CB, KH</li> <li>1860–1875: Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Codrington_(British_Army_officer)" title="William Codrington (British Army officer)">William Codrington</a>, GCB</li> <li>1875–1898: Gen. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Crutchley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Crutchley (page does not exist)">Charles Crutchley</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>The Royal Welsh Fusiliers (1881)</dt></dl> <ul><li>1898–1910: Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Edward_Bulwer_(British_Army_officer)" title="Edward Bulwer (British Army officer)">Edward Earle Gascoigne Bulwer</a>, GCB</li> <li>1910–1914: Maj-Gen. Hon. Sir Savage Lloyd Mostyn, KCB</li> <li>1914–1915: Maj-Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Luke_O%27Connor" title="Luke O'Connor">Luke O'Connor</a>, VC, KCB</li></ul> <dl><dt>The Royal Welch Fusiliers (1921)</dt></dl> <ul><li>1915–1926: Lt-Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Francis_Lloyd_(British_Army_officer)" title="Francis Lloyd (British Army officer)">Francis Lloyd</a>, GCVO, KCB, DSO</li> <li>1926–1938: Lt-Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Charles_Macpherson_Dobell" title="Charles Macpherson Dobell">Charles Macpherson Dobell</a>, KCB, CMG, DSO</li> <li>1938–1942: Maj-Gen. <a href="/wiki/John_Minshull-Ford" title="John Minshull-Ford">John Randle Minshull-Ford</a>, CB, DSO, MC</li> <li>1942–1947: Maj-Gen. Nigel Maitland Wilson, CB, DSO, OBE</li> <li>1947–1948: Brig. <a href="/wiki/Llewellyn_Alston" title="Llewellyn Alston">Llewellyn Augustus Arthur Alston</a>, CBE, DSO, MC</li> <li>1948–1952: Brig. Sir Eric Ommanney Skaife, CB, OBE</li> <li>1952–1965: Maj-Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Stockwell" title="Hugh Stockwell">Hugh Charles Stockwell</a>, KBE, CB, DSO</li> <li>1965–1974: Col. John Edward Theodore Willes, MBE</li> <li>1974–1984: Maj-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Peter_Raymond_Leuchars" title="Peter Raymond Leuchars">Peter Raymond Leuchars</a>, CBE</li> <li>1984–1990: Brig. Anthony Chester Vivian, CBE</li> <li>1990–1997: Maj-Gen. Richard Morgan Llewellyn, CB, OBE</li> <li>1997–2001: Brig. David John Ross, CBE</li> <li>2001–2005: Maj-Gen. Brian Peter Plummer, CBE</li> <li>2005–2006: Maj-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Jonathon_Riley_(British_Army_officer)" title="Jonathon Riley (British Army officer)">Jonathon Peter Riley</a>, DSO</li> <li>2006: Regiment amalgamated with <a href="/wiki/The_Royal_Regiment_of_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="The Royal Regiment of Wales">The Royal Regiment of Wales</a> to form <a href="/wiki/The_Royal_Welsh" class="mw-redirect" title="The Royal Welsh">The Royal Welsh</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Alliances">Alliances</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Alliances">edit</a>]</div> The regiment had an alliance with the Canadian <a href="/wiki/Royal_22nd_Regiment" title="Royal 22nd Regiment">Royal 22e Régiment</a> from 1927 until its amalgamation in 2006; this alliance included the frequent exchange of personnel between the two regiments.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regimental_mascot">Regimental mascot</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Regimental mascot">edit</a>]</div> As with the Royal Regiment of Wales, the regiment traditionally had a goat, never called a mascot. The tradition dated back to at least 1775, and possibly to the regiment's formation. The goat was always named 'Billy'.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uniform">Uniform</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Uniform">edit</a>]</div> Soldiers of this regiment were distinguishable by the unique feature of the "flash", consisting of five overlapping black silk ribbons (seven inches long for soldiers and nine inches long for officers) on the back of the uniform jacket at neck level.<a href="#cite_note-cemetery-107">[107]</a> This is a legacy of the days when it was normal for soldiers to wear <a href="/wiki/Pigtail" title="Pigtail">pigtails</a>. In 1808, this practice was discontinued but when the order was issued the RWF were serving in <a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a> and had not received the instruction when the regiment departed to join an expedition to the West Indies.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> In 1834 the officers of the 23rd Foot were finally granted permission by <a href="/wiki/William_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="William IV of the United Kingdom">William IV</a> to wear this non-regulation item as a distinction on the full dress uniform as "a peculiarity whereby to mark the dress of that distinguished regiment".<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> This was extended to all ranks in 1900.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> <a href="/wiki/Khaki" title="Khaki">Khaki</a> service dress replaced the scarlet tunic as the principal uniform, and the <a href="/wiki/Army_Council_(1904)" title="Army Council (1904)">Army Council</a> attempted to remove the flash during the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>, citing the grounds that it would help the Germans identify which unit was facing them. As Fusilier officer <a href="/wiki/Robert_Graves" title="Robert Graves">Robert Graves</a> reported, "the regiment retorted by inquiring on what occasion since the retreat from Corunna, when the regiment was the last to leave Spain, with the keys of the town postern in the pocket of one of its officers, had any of His Majesty's enemies seen the back of a Royal Welch Fusilier?," and the matter remained "in abeyance throughout the war."<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> The efforts of the regiment to retain the distinction was further reinforced at a medal ceremony when <a href="/wiki/George_V_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George V of the United Kingdom">King George V</a> saw an officer of the regiment in the line. He ordered an About Turn and seeing the flash still on the tunic said <a href="/wiki/Sotto_voce" title="Sotto voce">sotto voce</a>, "don't ever let anyone take it from you!"<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a> The wearing of the flash on service dress was extended to other ranks in 1924.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> As a <a href="/wiki/Fusilier" title="Fusilier">fusilier</a> regiment, the RWF wore a <a href="/wiki/Hackle" title="Hackle">hackle</a>, which consisted of a plume of white feathers mounted behind the cap-badge of the modern beret.<a href="#cite_note-cemetery-107">[107]</a> The full dress of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, as worn by the entire regiment until 1914, included a racoon-skin hat (bearskin for officers) with a white hackle and a scarlet tunic with the dark blue facings of a Royal regiment. This uniform continued to be worn by the RWF's Corps of Drums and the Regimental Pioneers until the merger of 2006.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regimental_Prayer">Regimental Prayer</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Regimental Prayer">edit</a>]</div> The Regimental Collect (or prayer as it is also known as) was in Welsh:<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">Tragwyddol Dduw, a gyfododd trwy dy nerth yr Arglwydd Iesu Grist o’r meirw, gynnal fe weddiwn, gwrhydri hynafol y Ffiwsilwyr Cymreig, fel yr oddefwn galedi yn ôl ei esiampl, ac y cyfodwn gydag ef i lewyrch fel yr hal yn dy deyrnas, trwy’r un Iesu Grist ein Harglwydd. Amen.</blockquote> And in English: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Eternal God, whose strength raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, uphold, we pray thee, the ancient valour of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, that we may ever endure hardship after his example, and may rise with him to shine as the sun in thy Kingdom, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.</blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers_Museum" title="Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum">Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_British_Army_regiments_and_corps" title="List of British Army regiments and corps">List of British Army regiments and corps</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Welch_Fusiliers&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Burnham-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Burnham_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Burnham_1-1">b</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBurnhamMcGuigan2010" class="citation book cs1">Burnham, Robert; McGuigan, Ron (2010). 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Foot">69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot</a> (1756–1881)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2nd generation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Welch_Regiment" title="Welch Regiment">Welch Regiment</a> (1881–1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">3rd generation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Wales" title="Royal Regiment of Wales">Royal Regiment of Wales</a> (1969–2006)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Cross" title="Victoria Cross">Victoria Cross</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Allen_(VC_1879)" title="William Allen (VC 1879)">William Wilson Allan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Bell_(VC)" title="David Bell (VC)">David Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gonville_Bromhead" title="Gonville Bromhead">Gonville Bromhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Stevenson_Browne" title="Edward Stevenson Browne">Edward Stevenson Browne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Cobbe" title="Alexander Cobbe">Alexander Cobbe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nevill_Coghill_(VC)" title="Nevill Coghill (VC)">Nevill Coghill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Griffiths_(VC)" title="William Griffiths (VC)">William Griffiths</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Hitch" title="Frederick Hitch">Frederick Hitch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Hook_(VC)" title="Henry Hook (VC)">Alfred Henry Hook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Graham_Johnson" title="Dudley Graham Johnson">Dudley Graham Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Jones_(VC)" title="William Jones (VC)">William Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teignmouth_Melvill" title="Teignmouth Melvill">Teignmouth Melvill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivor_Rees" title="Ivor Rees">Ivor Rees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Williams_(VC)" title="John Williams (VC)">John Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Williams_(VC)" title="Jack Williams (VC)">John Henry Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angus_Buchanan_(VC)" title="Angus Buchanan (VC)">Angus Buchanan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Cooper_(VC)" title="James Cooper (VC)">James Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campbell_Mellis_Douglas" title="Campbell Mellis Douglas">Campbell Mellis Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Fynn" title="James Fynn">James Fynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edric_Gifford,_3rd_Baron_Gifford" title="Edric Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford">Edric Gifford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Jones_(VC)" title="Robert Jones (VC)">Robert Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Murphy_(VC)" title="Thomas Murphy (VC)">Thomas Murphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_White_(VC)" title="Albert White (VC)">Albert White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Madden" title="Ambrose Madden">Ambrose Madden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Rowlands" title="Hugh Rowlands">Hugh Rowlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Charles_Fuller" title="William Charles Fuller">William Charles Fuller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubert_William_Lewis" title="Hubert William Lewis">Hubert William Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Myles" title="Edgar Myles">Edgar Myles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tasker_Watkins" title="Tasker Watkins">Tasker Watkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Barter" title="Frederick Barter">Frederick Barter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_William_Derrington_Bell" title="Edward William Derrington Bell">Edward William Derrington Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Collins_(VC)" title="John Collins (VC)">John Collins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Llewellyn_Davies" title="James Llewellyn Davies">James Llewellyn Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_John_Davies" title="Joseph John Davies">Joseph John Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Doughty-Wylie" title="Charles Doughty-Wylie">Charles Doughty-Wylie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Hill_(VC)" title="Albert Hill (VC)">Albert Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Monger" title="George Monger">George Monger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luke_O%27Connor" title="Luke O'Connor">Luke O'Connor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Weale" title="Henry Weale">Henry Weale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bernard_Hackett" title="Thomas Bernard Hackett">Thomas Bernard Hackett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Shields_(VC)" title="Robert Shields (VC)">Robert Shields</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Thomas_Sylvester" title="William Henry Thomas Sylvester">William Henry Thomas Sylvester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Herbert_Waring" title="William Herbert Waring">William Herbert Waring</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rorke%27s_Drift" title="Battle of Rorke's Drift">Battle of Rorke's Drift</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Wales%27s_feathers" title="Prince of Wales's feathers">Prince of Wales's feathers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Men_of_Harlech" title="Men of Harlech">Men of Harlech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Firing_Line:_Cardiff_Castle_Museum_of_the_Welsh_Soldier" title="Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier">Firing Line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Wales%27_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince of Wales' Division">Prince of Wales' Division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welsh_Guards" title="Welsh Guards">Welsh Guards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1st_The_Queen%27s_Dragoon_Guards" title="1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards">1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Regiments_of_foot_1740–1881" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Regiments_of_Foot" title="Template:Regiments of 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title="Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)">3rd (East Kent – The Buffs)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Royal_Regiment_(Lancaster)" title="King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)">4th (The King's Own Royal)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Northumberland_Fusiliers" title="Royal Northumberland Fusiliers">5th (Northumberland) (Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Warwickshire_Regiment" title="Royal Warwickshire Regiment">6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Fusiliers" title="Royal Fusiliers">7th (Royal Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8th_(The_King%27s)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot">8th (The King's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Norfolk_Regiment" title="Royal Norfolk Regiment">9th (East Norfolk)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Lincolnshire_Regiment" title="Royal Lincolnshire Regiment">10th (North Lincoln)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devonshire_Regiment" title="Devonshire Regiment">11th (North Devonshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suffolk_Regiment" title="Suffolk Regiment">12th (East Suffolk)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_Light_Infantry" title="Somerset Light Infantry">13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Regiment" title="West Yorkshire Regiment">14th (Buckinghamshire – The Prince of Wales's Own)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Yorkshire_Regiment" title="East Yorkshire Regiment">15th (York, East Riding)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire_and_Hertfordshire_Regiment" title="Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment">16th (Bedfordshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Leicestershire_Regiment" title="Royal Leicestershire Regiment">17th (Leicestershire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Irish_Regiment_(1684%E2%80%931922)" title="Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922)">18th (The Royal Irish)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Howards" title="Green Howards">19th (1st Yorkshire, North Riding – Princess of Wales's Own)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancashire_Fusiliers" title="Lancashire Fusiliers">20th (East Devonshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Scots_Fusiliers" title="Royal Scots Fusiliers">21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheshire_Regiment" title="Cheshire Regiment">22nd (Cheshire)</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Wales_Borderers" title="South Wales Borderers">24th (2nd Warwickshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Scottish_Borderers" title="King's Own Scottish Borderers">25th (King's Own Borderers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/26th_(Cameronian)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot">26th (Cameronian)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/27th_(Inniskilling)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot">27th (Inniskilling)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28th_(North_Gloucestershire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot">28th (North Gloucestershire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/29th_(Worcestershire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot">29th (Worcestershire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/30th_(Cambridgeshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot">30th (Cambridgeshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/31st_(Huntingdonshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot">31st (Huntingdonshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/32nd_(Cornwall)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot">32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Wellington%27s_Regiment" title="Duke of Wellington's Regiment">33rd (The Duke of Wellington's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/34th_(Cumberland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot">34th (Cumberland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/35th_(Royal_Sussex)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot">35th (Royal Sussex)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/36th_(Herefordshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot">36th (Herefordshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/37th_(North_Hampshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot">37th (North Hampshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/38th_(1st_Staffordshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot">38th (1st Staffordshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/39th_(Dorsetshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot">39th (Dorsetshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/40th_(the_2nd_Somersetshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot">40th (2nd Somersetshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/41st_(Welch)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot">41st (The Welsh)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oglethorpe%27s_Regiment" title="Oglethorpe's Regiment">42nd (Oglethorpe's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/42nd_Regiment_of_Foot" title="42nd Regiment of Foot">42nd (The Royal Highland) (The Black Watch)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spotswood%27s_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="Spotswood's Regiment">43rd (Spotswood's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/43rd_(Monmouthshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot">43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry)</a></li> <li>44th (1st Marines)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/44th_(East_Essex)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot">44th (East Essex)</a></li> <li>45th (2nd Marines)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/45th_(Nottinghamshire)_(Sherwood_Foresters)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot">45th (Nottinghamshire Sherwood Foresters)</a></li> <li>46th (3rd Marines)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/46th_(South_Devonshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot">46th (South Devonshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Regiment_of_Marines_(British_Army)" title="4th Regiment of Marines (British Army)">47th Regiment (4th 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<li><a href="/wiki/51st_(2nd_Yorkshire_West_Riding)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot">51st (2nd York, West Riding, The King's Own Light Infantry)</a></li> <li>52nd (9th Marines)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/52nd_(Oxfordshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot">52nd (Oxfordshire Light Infantry)</a></li> <li>53rd (10th Marines)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/53rd_(Shropshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot">53rd (Shropshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/54th_(West_Norfolk)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot">54th (West Norfolk)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/55th_(Westmorland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot">55th (Westmorland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/56th_(West_Essex)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot">56th (West Essex)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/57th_(West_Middlesex)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot">57th (West Middlesex)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/58th_(Rutlandshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot">58th (Rutlandshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/59th_(2nd_Nottinghamshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot">59th (2nd Nottinghamshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/De_Grangues%27s_Regiment" title="De Grangues's Regiment">60th (De Grangues's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Royal_Rifle_Corps" title="King's Royal Rifle Corps">60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gooch%27s_American_Regiment" title="Gooch's American Regiment">61st (Gooch's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/61st_(South_Gloucestershire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot">61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li>62nd (Baterau's)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Royal_Rifle_Corps" title="King's Royal Rifle Corps">62nd (Royal American)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/77th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Montgomerie%27s_Highlanders)" title="77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomerie's Highlanders)">62nd (1st Highland Battalion)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/62nd_(Wiltshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot">62nd (Wiltshire)</a></li> <li>63rd (American)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/78th_Fraser_Highlanders" title="78th Fraser Highlanders">63rd (2nd Highland Battalion)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/63rd_(West_Suffolk)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot">63rd (West Suffolk)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loudon%27s_Highlanders" title="Loudon's Highlanders">64th (Loudon's Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/79th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1757)" title="79th Regiment of Foot (1757)">64th (Draper's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/64th_(2nd_Staffordshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot">64th (2nd Staffordshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirley%27s_Regiment" title="Shirley's Regiment">65th (Shirley's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/65th_(2nd_Yorkshire,_North_Riding)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot">65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pepperrell%27s_Regiment" title="Pepperrell's Regiment">66th (Pepperrell's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/66th_(Berkshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot">66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li>67th (Bolton's)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/67th_(South_Hampshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot">67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li>68th (Bedford's)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/68th_(Durham)_Regiment_of_Foot_(Light_Infantry)" title="68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)">68th (Durham) (Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/69th_(South_Lincolnshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot">69th (South Lincolnshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/70th_(Surrey)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot">70th (Surrey)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/71st_Regiment_of_Foot_(1758)" title="71st Regiment of Foot (1758)">71st (1758-1763)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/71st_Regiment_of_Foot,_Fraser%27s_Highlanders" title="71st Regiment of Foot, Fraser's Highlanders">71st (Fraser's Highlanders)</a></li> <li>71st (Invalids)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/71st_(Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot">71st (Highland Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/72nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1758)" title="72nd Regiment of Foot (1758)">72nd (1758–1763)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/72nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="72nd Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">72nd (Invalids)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/72nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Manchester_Volunteers)" title="72nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Manchester Volunteers)">72nd (Royal Manchester Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/72nd_Regiment,_Duke_of_Albany%27s_Own_Highlanders" title="72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders">72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/73rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1758)" title="73rd Regiment of Foot (1758)">73rd (1758–1763)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/73rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="73rd Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">73rd (Invalids)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/71st_(Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot">73rd (Highland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/73rd_(Perthshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot">73rd (Perthshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/74th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="74th Regiment of Foot">74th (1758–1763)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/74th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="74th Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">74th (Invalids)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/74th_Regiment_of_(Highland)_Foot" title="74th Regiment of (Highland) Foot">74th (Argyleshire Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/74th_(Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot">74th (Highland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/75th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1758)" title="75th Regiment of Foot (1758)">75th (1758–1763)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/75th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="75th Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">75th (Invalids)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/75th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Prince_of_Wales%27s_Regiment)" title="75th Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Regiment)">75th (Prince of Wales's Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/75th_(Stirlingshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot">75th (Stirlingshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/76th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1756)" title="76th Regiment of Foot (1756)">76th (1758–1763)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/76th_Regiment_of_Foot_(MacDonald%27s_Highlanders)" title="76th Regiment of Foot (MacDonald's Highlanders)">76th (MacDonald's Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/76th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="76th Regiment of Foot">76th Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/77th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Montgomerie%27s_Highlanders)" title="77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomerie's Highlanders)">77th (Montgomery's Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atholl_Highlanders" title="Atholl Highlanders">77th (Atholl Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/77th_(East_Middlesex)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot">77th (East Middlesex) (Duke of Cambridge's Own)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/78th_Fraser_Highlanders" title="78th Fraser Highlanders">78th (Fraser's Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/72nd_Regiment,_Duke_of_Albany%27s_Own_Highlanders" title="72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders">78th (Highland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/78th_(Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">78th (Highland) (The Ross-shire Buffs)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/79th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1757)" title="79th Regiment of Foot (1757)">79th</a> (1758-1763)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/79th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Liverpool_Volunteers)" title="79th Regiment of Foot (Royal Liverpool Volunteers)">79th (Royal Liverpool Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Own_Cameron_Highlanders" title="Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders">79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/80th_Regiment_of_Light-Armed_Foot" title="80th Regiment of Light-Armed Foot">80th (Light Armed)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/80th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Edinburgh_Volunteers)" title="80th Regiment of Foot (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers)">80th (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/80th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Staffordshire_Volunteers)" title="80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers)">80th (Staffordshire Volunteers)</a></li> <li>81st (Invalids)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/81st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Aberdeenshire_Highland_Regiment)" title="81st Regiment of Foot (Aberdeenshire Highland Regiment)">81st (Aberdeenshire Highland)</a></li> <li>81st (1793)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/81st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Loyal_Lincoln_Volunteers)" title="81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)">81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/72nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="72nd Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">82nd (invalids)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/82nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1777)" title="82nd Regiment of Foot (1777)">82nd (1777)</a></li> <li>82nd (1793)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/82nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Prince_of_Wales%27s_Volunteers)" title="82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)">82nd (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/83rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1757)" title="83rd Regiment of Foot (1757)">83rd (1757-1763)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/83rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Glasgow_Volunteers)" title="83rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Glasgow Volunteers)">83rd (Royal Glasgow Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/81st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Loyal_Lincoln_Volunteers)" title="81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)">83rd (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/83rd_(County_of_Dublin)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot">83rd (County of Dublin)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/84th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1759)" title="84th Regiment of Foot (1759)">84th (1758-1764)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/84th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Highland_Emigrants)" title="84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants)">84th (Royal Highland Emigrants)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/84th_(York_and_Lancaster)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot">84th (York and Lancaster)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/85th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Volunteers)" title="85th Regiment of Foot (Royal Volunteers)">85th (Royal Volontiers Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/85th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Westminster_Volunteers)" title="85th Regiment of Foot (Westminster Volunteers)">85th (1779-1783)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/85th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Bucks_Volunteers)" title="85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers)">85th (Bucks Volunteers) (The King's Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/86th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1758)" title="86th Regiment of Foot (1758)">86th (1759-1763)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/86th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Rutland_Regiment)" title="86th Regiment of Foot (Rutland Regiment)">86th (1779-1783)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/86th_(Royal_County_Down)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot">86th (Royal County Down)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/87th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Keith%27s_Highlanders)" title="87th Regiment of Foot (Keith's Highlanders)">87th (Keith's Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/87th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1779)" title="87th Regiment of Foot (1779)">87th (1779-1783)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/87th_(Royal_Irish_Fusiliers)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot">87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/88th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Highland_Volunteers)" title="88th Regiment of Foot (Highland Volunteers)">88th (Highland Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/88th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1779)" title="88th Regiment of Foot (1779)">88th (1779-1783)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/88th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Connaught_Rangers)" title="88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)">88th (Connaught Rangers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/89th_(Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="89th (Highland) Regiment of Foot">89th (Highland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/89th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1779)" title="89th Regiment of Foot (1779)">89th (1779-1783)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/89th_(Princess_Victoria%27s)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot">89th (Princess Victoria's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/90th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1759)" title="90th Regiment of Foot (1759)">90th (Irish Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/90th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Yorkshire_Volunteers)" title="90th Regiment of Foot (Yorkshire Volunteers)">90th (Yorkshire Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/90th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Perthshire_Volunteers)" title="90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers)">90th (Perthshire Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/91st_Regiment_of_Foot_(1759)" title="91st Regiment of Foot (1759)">91st (1759-1763)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/91st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Shropshire_Volunteers)" title="91st Regiment of Foot (Shropshire Volunteers)">91st (Shropshire Volunteers)</a></li> <li>91st (1793-1795)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/91st_(Argyllshire_Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/92nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Donegal_Light_Infantry)" title="92nd Regiment of Foot (Donegal Light Infantry)">92nd (Donegal Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/92nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1779)" title="92nd Regiment of Foot (1779)">92nd (1779-1783)</a></li> <li>92nd (1793-1795)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/92nd_(Gordon_Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">92nd (Gordon Highlanders)</a></li> <li>93rd (1760-1763)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/93rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1780)" title="93rd Regiment of Foot (1780)">93rd (1779-1783)</a></li> <li>93rd (Highland) (1793-1798)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/93rd_(Sutherland_Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">93rd (Sutherland Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/94th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1760)" title="94th Regiment of Foot (1760)">94th (Royal Welsh Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/94th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1780)" title="94th Regiment of Foot (1780)">94th (1780-1783)</a></li> <li>94th (Irish)</li> <li>94th (Scots Brigade) </li> <li><a href="/wiki/94th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="94th Regiment of Foot">94th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/95th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Burton%27s)" title="95th Regiment of Foot (Burton's)">95th (1759-1763)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/95th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Reid%27s)" title="95th Regiment of Foot (Reid's)">95th (1780-1783)</a></li> <li>95th (1794-1796)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rifle_Brigade_(The_Prince_Consort%27s_Own)" title="Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)">95th (Riflemen)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1803)" title="96th Regiment of Foot (1803)">95th (1816-1818)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/95th_(Derbyshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot">95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1760)" title="96th Regiment of Foot (1760)">96th (1760-1763)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot_(British_Musketeers)" title="96th Regiment of Foot (British Musketeers)">96th (British Musketeers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1803)" title="96th Regiment of Foot (1803)">96th (1803-1816)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="96th Regiment of Foot">96th (Queen's Own Germans)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="96th Regiment of Foot">96th Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li>97th (1760-1763)</li> <li>97th (1780-1784)</li> <li>97th (Inverness-shire Highlanders)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="96th Regiment of Foot">97th (Queen's Own Germans)</a></li> <li>97th (1816-1818)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/97th_(The_Earl_of_Ulster%27s)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot">97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li>98th (1760-1763)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/98th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1780)" title="98th Regiment of Foot (1780)">98th (1780-1784)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/91st_(Argyllshire_Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">98th (Argyllshire Highlanders)</a></li> <li>98th (1804-1816)</li> <li>98th (Prince of Wales's Tipperary)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/98th_(Prince_of_Wales%27s)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot">98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li>99th (1760-1763)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/99th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Jamaica_Regiment)" title="99th Regiment of Foot (Jamaica Regiment)">99th (Jamaica Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/99th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="99th Regiment of Foot (1794)">99th (1794-1797)</a></li> <li>99th (Prince of Wales's Tipperary)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/100th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Prince_Regent%27s_County_of_Dublin_Regiment)" title="100th Regiment of Foot (Prince Regent's County of Dublin Regiment)">99th (Prince Regent's County of Dublin)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/99th_(Lanarkshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot">99th (Duke of Edinburgh's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/100th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1760)" title="100th Regiment of Foot (1760)">100th (Highland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/100th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Loyal_Lincolnshire_Regiment)" title="100th Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincolnshire Regiment)">100th (1780-1784)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/92nd_(Gordon_Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">100th (Gordon Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/100th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Prince_Regent%27s_County_of_Dublin_Regiment)" title="100th Regiment of Foot (Prince Regent's County of Dublin Regiment)">100th (Prince Regent's County of Dublin)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales_Corps" title="New South Wales Corps">100th (New South Wales Corps)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/100th_(Prince_of_Wales%27s_Royal_Canadian)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot">100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/101st_Regiment_of_Foot_(1760)" title="101st Regiment of Foot (1760)">101st (Highland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/101st_Regiment_of_Foot_(1780)" title="101st Regiment of Foot (1780)">101st (1780-1783)</a></li> <li>101st (Irish)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/101st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Duke_of_York%27s_Irish)" title="101st Regiment of Foot (Duke of York's Irish)">101st (Duke of York's Irish)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/101st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Bengal_Fusiliers)" title="101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)">101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)</a></li> <li>102nd (Queen's Royal Volunteers) </li> <li><a href="/wiki/102nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1781)" title="102nd Regiment of Foot (1781)">102nd (1780-1783)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/102nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Irish_Rangers)" title="102nd Regiment of Foot (Irish Rangers)">102nd (Irish)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales_Corps" title="New South Wales Corps">102nd (New South Wales Corps)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/102nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Madras_Fusiliers)" title="102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers)">102nd (Royal Madras Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/103rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Volunteer_Hunters)" title="103rd Regiment of Foot (Volunteer Hunters)">103rd Regiment of Foot (Volunteer Hunters)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/103rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(King%27s_Irish_Infantry)" title="103rd Regiment of Foot (King's Irish Infantry)">103rd Regiment of Foot (King's Irish Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/103rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="103rd Regiment of Foot (1794)">103rd (Loyal Bristol Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/103rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1806)" title="103rd Regiment of Foot (1806)">103rd (1809-1816)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/103rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Bombay_Fusiliers)" title="103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers)">103rd (Royal Bombay Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/104th_Regiment_of_Foot_(King%27s_Volunteers)" title="104th Regiment of Foot (King's Volunteers)">104th (King's Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/104th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1782)" title="104th Regiment of Foot (1782)">104th (1782-1783)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/104th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Manchester_Volunteers)" title="104th Regiment of Foot (Royal Manchester Volunteers)">104th (Royal Manchester Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/104th_(New_Brunswick)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot">104th (New Brunswick )</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/104th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="104th Regiment of Foot">104th Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/105th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Queen%27s_Own_Royal_Regiment_of_Highlanders)" class="mw-redirect" title="105th Regiment of Foot (Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Highlanders)">105th (Queen's Own Royal Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volunteers_of_Ireland" title="Volunteers of Ireland">105th (Volunteers of Ireland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/105th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="105th Regiment of Foot (1794)">105th (1794-1796)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/105th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Madras_Light_Infantry)" title="105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry)">105th (Madras Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/106th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Black_Musqueteers)" title="106th Regiment of Foot (Black Musqueteers)">106th (Black Musqueteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/106th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="106th Regiment of Foot (1794)">106th (1794-1796)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/106th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Bombay_Light_Infantry)" title="106th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Light Infantry)">106th (Bombay Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/107th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Queen%27s_Own_Royal_Regiment_of_British_Volunteers)" title="107th Regiment of Foot (Queen's Own Royal Regiment of British Volunteers)">107th (Queen's Own Royal Regiment of British Volunteers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/107th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="107th Regiment of Foot (1794)">107th 1794-1795</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/107th_(Bengal_Infantry)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment of Foot">107th (Bengal Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/108th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1761)" title="108th Regiment of 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