Postcards: The Royal Welsh Fusiliers

POSTCARDS: The Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Autumn 1914.

The Royal Welch Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army and part of the Prince of Wales' Division, founded in 1689 shortly after the Glorious Revolution. Designated a fusilier regiment in 1702 it became The Welch Regiment of Fusiliers; the prefix "Royal" was added in 1713, then confirmed in 1714 when George I named it The Prince of Wales' Own Royal Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers. After the 1751 reforms that standardised the naming and numbering of regiments, it became the 23rd Foot (Royal Welsh Fuzileers).

It retained the archaic spelling of Welch, instead of Welsh, and Fuzileers for Fusiliers; these were engraved on swords carried by regimental officers during the Napoleonic Wars. After the 1881 Childers Reforms, its official title was The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, but "Welch" continued to be used informally until restored in 1920 by Army Order No.56. It should not be confused with the Welch Regiment, a different unit that recruited in South and West, rather than North Wales, and became part of the Royal Regiment of Wales or RRW in 1969. 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, Royal Welsh, with RRW as the 2nd Battalion. The 1908 reforms created reserve or Territorial Force units, attached to regular battalions; the Fusiliers had four of these, the 4th (Denbighshire), 5th (Flintshire), 6th (Carnarvonshire & Anglesey) and 7th (Merioneth & Montgomery). In addition, they raised over a dozen 'war service' battalions, informally known as Kitchener or Pals battalions, distinct from Territorial units. The 5th, 6th, 7th Territorial and 8th Kitchener battalions fought at Gallipoli as part of the 53rd (Welsh) Division; by January 1916, it contained 162 officers and 2,428 men, approximately 15% of full strength. They remained in the Middle East until the end of the war, taking part in the Mesopotamian campaign.

Dim cyfyngiadau/ No Restrictions

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Cyflwr da /Good condition

Compiled by Amanda Sweet for Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers

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Ni ddisgwylir croniadau/Accruals are not expected

Same handwriting as WSM/126, WSM/131, WSM/158 and WSM/170 - 171