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    The Welch Regiment (or "The Welch", an archaic spelling of "Welsh") was an infantry regiment of the line of the British Army in existence from 1881 until...
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    The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Welsh: Ffiwsilwyr Brenhinol Cymreig) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, and part of the Prince of Wales's Division...
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  • The 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1719. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 69th...
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  • Look up Welch or welch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Welch, Welch's, Welchs or Welches may refer to: Welch (surname) Welch, Oklahoma, a town, US...
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    amalgamation of the South Wales Borderers and the Welch Regiment. The 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) had a short existence...
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  • and 7th Battalions of the Welch Regiment. The 6th and 7th Battalions were amalgamated as the 6th/7th Battalion, Welch Regiment and the 4th Battalion, King's...
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    Company of the 1/5th Battalion, Welch Regiment was awarded the Victoria Cross, the first and only to be awarded to the regiment and division during the war...
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  • Royal Welsh (redirect from Royal Welch)
    armoured infantry regiment of the British Army. It was established in 2006 from the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot) and the Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st...
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  • Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1756. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 41st (Welch) Regiment...
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    Cheshire Regiment 1/4th Battalion, Welch Regiment 1/5th Battalion, Welch Regiment 160th Brigade 2/4th Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment 1/4th...
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    World War II. In 1969 the regiment was amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales. The regiment was formed by Sir Edward Dering...
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    Regiment The Royal Hampshire Regiment The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) The Welch Regiment The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)...
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    David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore (category Welch Regiment officers)
    solicitor in 1929. Commissioned into the 6th (Territorial Army) Battalion, Welch Regiment, he was promoted Captain in 1936 and Major in 1938, by which time his...
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  • The Swansea Rifles, later the 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion of the Welch Regiment, was a Volunteer unit of the British Army from 1859 to 1954. It fought on...
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    The Welch Regiment War Memorial, also known as the Maindy Monument is a First World War memorial at Maindy Barracks in the Cathays area of Cardiff in Wales...
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  • Guards Museum, which had been based at Bowness-on-Windermere, and of the Welch Regiment Museum, which had been based in the Black and Barbican Towers of Cardiff...
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    Brooke, Welch Regiment 1954 Lt Col Michael Osborn, West Yorkshire Regiment 1955 Lt Col George Lea, Lancashire Fusiliers and Parachute Regiment 1957 Lt...
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    Welsh 1918* First World War Royal Welch Fusiliers Ronssoy, France Tasker Watkins Welsh 1944 Second World War Welch Regiment Barfour, France Henry Weale Welsh...
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    Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare (category Welch Regiment officers)
    of his status in the nobility, was started early: he served in the Welch Regiment and became a major of the 3rd Battalion in 1899. A year later he was...
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    the battalions were raised (the Dorsetshire Regiment raised eleven battalions, whilst the London Regiment managed to raise eighty-eight battalions). Regular...
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    the First World War, in which Ford had served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life he vividly depicts. The individual novels are Some Do Not ....
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    John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon (category Welch Regiment soldiers)
    of his national service, he was stationed with the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the Welch Regiment, and the South Wales Borderers. In 1959, Morris married Margaret...
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    Division, 7th (Service) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment; and 8th (Service) Battalion, Welch Regiment, both of the 13th (Western) Division. The troops...
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    Tasker Watkins (category Welch Regiment officers)
    battalion was one of three (the others being the 4th Welch Regiment and the 2nd Monmouthshire Regiment) which formed part of the 160th Infantry Brigade,...
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  • Cyril Lomax (category Welch Regiment officers)
    as a second lieutenant into the Welch Regiment of the British Army in September 1912. He was posted to the regiment's 2nd Battalion, then serving in Bordon...
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    Bombardier Billy Wells (category Welch Regiment soldiers)
    World War I. In May 1915, Wells joined up for military service (in the Welch Regiment) and was later made a sergeant. He continued to box until the end of...
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    first occupied by the Welch Regiment in 1965. On 9 December 2005 the barracks was taken over by the Duke of Wellington's Regiment on their return to the...
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    Anthony Powell (category Welch Regiment officers)
    Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Lionel William Powell (1882–1959), of the Welch Regiment, and Maud Mary (died 1954), daughter of Edmund Lionel Wells-Dymoke,...
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  • battalion regiments were created out of this process – the South Wales Borderers and the Welch Regiment united to form the Royal Regiment of Wales in...
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    William Grant Stairs (category Welch Regiment officers)
    Engineers and trained in Chatham, England. In 1891 he transferred to the Welsh Regiment. Captain Stairs was appointed to the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition led by...
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