The South Wales Borderers

The Welsh Regiment

1689: Edward Dering’s
Regiment of Foot
1689: Daniel Dering’s
1691: Samuel Venner’s
1695: Louis James le Vasseur’s
1701: William Seymour’s
1702: John Churchill’s
1704: William Tatton’s
1708: Gilbert Primrose’s
1717: Thomas Howard’s
1719:
Edmund Fielding’s Invalids
1737: Thomas Wentworth’s

1743:
Tomkyn Wardour’s Invalids
1745: Daniel Houghton’s

1747: William Henry Kerr’s

Tomkyn Wardour’s
Royal Invalids
1751: 24th Regiment of Foot

41st or Invalids
Regiment of Foot

1756: 2nd Bn raised

2nd Bn, 24th Regiment of Foot
1758: 2nd Bn → 69th Foot →

69th Regiment of Foot

24th-Foot

41st-Foot

69th-Foot
1782: 24th (2nd Warwickshire)
Regiment of Foot

41st (Royal Invalids)
Regiment of Foot

69th (South Lincolnshire)
Regiment of Foot

1787:
41st Regiment of Foot

1795:

2nd Bn raised
1796:

2nd Bn disbanded
1803:

2nd Bn raised
1804: 2nd Bn raised


1813:
2nd Bn raised

1813:
2nd Bn disbanded

1814: 2nd Bn disbanded


1816:

2nd Bn disbanded
1831:

41st (Welsh)
Regiment of Foot



1847:

Reserve Bn raised
1848:

Reserve Bn disbanded
1858: 2nd Bn raised


24th Foot
41st Foot
69th Foot
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
layout layout
1881: 1st Bn,    2nd Bn, 1st Bn, 2nd Bn,
The South Wales Borderers The Welsh Regiment
South-Wales-Borderers
The-Welsh
SWB
WR
1922: The Welch Regiment
layout
WR
1948: 2nd Bn disbanded
2nd Bn disbanded
1948:
part of
The Welsh Brigade
part of
The Welsh Brigade
1958: Welsh
Welsh
1968:
part of
The Prince of Wales’s Division
part of
The Prince of Wales’s Division
layout layout
1969: 1st Battalion,
The Royal Regiment of Wales
(24th/41st Foot)

1975: RRW
2006: 2nd Battalion,
The Royal Welsh
(Royal Regiment of Wales)
WELSH
2014: merged into
1st Battalion,
The Royal Welsh