Great Britain

The South Wales Borderers

The Welsh Regiment

Kingdom of England
 
1689: Edward Dering’s
Regiment of Foot
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1689: Daniel Dering’s
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1691: Samuel Venner’s
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1695: Louis James le Vasseur’s
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1701: William Seymour’s
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1702: John Churchill’s
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1704: William Tatton’s
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1707: Kingdom of Great Britain
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1708: Gilbert Primrose’s
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1717: Thomas Howard’s
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1719: │
│		 Edmund Fielding’s Invalids
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1737: Thomas Wentworth’s
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1743: │
│		 Tomkyn Wardour’s Invalids
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1745: Daniel Houghton’s
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1747: William Henry Kerr’s
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│		 Tomkyn Wardour’s
Royal Invalids
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1751: 24th Regiment of Foot
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│		 41st or Invalids
Regiment of Foot
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1756: 2nd Bn raised
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│		 2nd Bn, 24th Regiment of Foot
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1758: 2nd Bn → 69th Foot →
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│		 69th Regiment of Foot
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24th-Foot
│		 │
41st-Foot
│		 │
69th-Foot
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1782: 24th (2nd Warwickshire)
Regiment of Foot
│		 41st (Royal Invalids)
Regiment of Foot
│		 69th (South Lincolnshire)
Regiment of Foot
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1787: │
│		 41st Regiment of Foot
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1795: │
│		 │
│		 2nd Bn raised
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1796: │
│		 │
│		 2nd Bn disbanded
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1801: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1803: │
│		 │
│		 2nd Bn raised
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1804: 2nd Bn raised
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1813: │
│		 2nd Bn raised
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1813: │
│		 2nd Bn disbanded
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1814: 2nd Bn disbanded
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1816: │
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│		 2nd Bn disbanded
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1831: │
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│		 41st (Welsh)
Regiment of Foot
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│
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1847: │
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│		 Reserve Bn raised
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1848: │
│		 │
│		 Reserve Bn disbanded
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1858: 2nd Bn raised
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24th Foot
│		 41st Foot
│		 69th Foot
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The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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layout layout
1881: 1st Bn,    2nd Bn, 1st Bn, 2nd Bn,
The South Wales Borderers The Welsh Regiment
South-Wales-Borderers
│		 The-Welsh
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SWB
│		 WR
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1922: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1922: │ The Welch Regiment
layout
│		 WR
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1948: 2nd Bn disbanded
│		 2nd Bn disbanded
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1948:
part of
The Welsh Brigade
│
part of
The Welsh Brigade
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1958: Welsh
│		 Welsh
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1968:
part of
The Prince of Wales’s Division
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part of
The Prince of Wales’s Division
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layout layout
1969: 1st Battalion,
The Royal Regiment of Wales
(24th/41st Foot)
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1975: RRW
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2006: 2nd Battalion,
The Royal Welsh
(Royal Regiment of Wales)
WELSH
│
2014: merged into
1st Battalion,
The Royal Welsh
 

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2024-08-24