• The Glamorganshire Militia, later the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised in the county of Glamorganshire in South Wales...
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    Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) – from infantry, converted to 638th Infantry Regiment January 1945 54th (Durham Light Infantry) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery...
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    author unknown, 'The History of The Welch Regiment 1919 – 1951' Wikimedia Commons has media related to Welch Regiment. Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry...
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    the arrival at Merthyr Tydfil of the permanent staff of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia (RGLI), and the mob dispersed. The Cardiff Troop and...
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  • The Royal Welsh (R WELSH) (Welsh: Y Cymry Brenhinol) is an armoured infantry regiment of the British Army. It was established in 2006 from the Royal Welch...
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  • actions gained it the 'Royal' title. Militia historically were regarded as light infantry regiments. In recognition of its Light Infantry ancestry the regiment...
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    (his father, also Charles Kemeys-Tynte, was colonel of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia). However, the position of colonel in the militia was...
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    into the Royal Artillery). It had the following organisation: HQ at Dumfries Place, Cardiff 325 (Glamorgan) Bty 326 (Glamorgan) Bty 327 (Glamorgan) Bty 328...
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  • Charles Kemeys-Tynte (1800–1882) (category Glamorgan Militia officers)
    the West Somerset Yeomanry and was appointed Colonel of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry militia on 4 January 1849. He commanded the regiment until his...
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  • the privilege of styling itself the Royal Glamorgan Artillery Militia (following the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia). However, recruitment from...
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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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  • Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales, at Battlesbury Barracks, Warminster (Light Infantry) – infantry demonstration unit at the School of Infantry 3rd (Volunteer)...
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    initial training was given by the permanent staff of the Swansea-based Royal Glamorgan Artillery Militia (RGAM). In 1860 a pair of 18-pounder muzzle-loading...
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    John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (category Lord-Lieutenants of Glamorgan)
    representatives at elections. In 1825 he became the Colonel of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia, and used this authority to instruct the militia to...
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  • Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 11th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company 12th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, 12th Infantry Brigade & Signal Section, Royal Corps of...
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  • Battle of Two Sisters (category History of the Royal Marines)
    assaulting British force consisting of Royal Marines of 45 Commando and an Argentine Company drawn from 4th Infantry Regiment (Regimiento de Infantería 4...
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    Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (category Glamorgan Yeomanry officers)
    grandfather in 1800. He served in the Glamorgan Yeomanry and later in the militia (the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry, commissioned as Major on 3 April 1849)...
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    Yeomanry were re-roled as infantry and together with the 1/1st Glamorgan Yeomanry were converted into 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry) Battalion, Welsh...
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  • part-time air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army converted from an infantry battalion just before World War II. It served in Anti-Aircraft Command...
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    Tasker Watkins (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
    the British Army, initially as a private in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, in October. After serving for over a year as a private he was sent...
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    in March 1942, and later converted into an infantry battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry—KOYLI. Volunteers from the Yeomanry served in...
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  • 623rd Infantry Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by 67th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (TA). (to 307th Infantry Brigade 11 March 1945) 628th Infantry Regiment...
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    given to the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment when it relieved the 1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry at Sarawak, Borneo in May 1966...
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    units of "assault pioneers" belonging to infantry regiments and separate pioneer units (as in the former Royal Pioneer Corps). The United States Marine...
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    The 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that fought in both the First and Second World Wars. Originally raised...
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    Royal Welch Fusiliers (left 21 June 1918) 25th (Montgomery and Welsh Horse Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry)...
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    10/11th (Service) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (joined and left February 1918) 13th (Service) Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (converted from...
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  • Yeomanry) Battalion, Shropshire Light Infantry 24th (Denbigh Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry) Battalion, Welch...
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    The 3rd Infantry Brigade was a Regular Army infantry brigade of the British Army, part of the 1st Infantry Division. Originally formed in 1809, during...
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  • the regimental district of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, and Montgomeryshire in that of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers The Army - Restoration of old facings...
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