#historichalfterm

 Had a great #winterofwellbeing #historihalfterm event at the Museum today. Lots of visitors. Thank you all. If you missed it today we are doing it all again tomorrow!

Prints for sale!

Officer of the 23rd Foot and Serjeant Luke O' Connor VC 23rd Foot  Prints (210 x 295mm)

1. Officer of the 23rd Foot The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1870

2. Serjeant Luke O' Connor VC 23rd Foot The Royal Welch Fusiliers Battle of Alma Crimea 1854

Price: £6.00 for the pair

Postage & Packaging: UK £3.00 (other destinations at cost)

To purchase please visit www.rwfmuseum.org.uk

Reichswald

 ON THIS DAY IN ROYAL WELCH HISTORY

RWF Territorial battalions in the Reichswald, Germany, 1945

The 53rd (Welsh) Division with the 4th, 6th and 7th Battalions were involved in this bloody and bitter battle which was one of the most unpleasant of the Second World War.  During it, the CO of the 7th Battalion, Lieut-Col Dickson, was killed.  It took many days to clear the enemy from the forest and substantial casualties were suffered in the process.

World War Two: Guard to Nazi Rudolph Hess and his propaganda artefacts

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60169376

1 RWF action at Split Hill Piquet Waziristan 1923

5th February 1923 – ON THIS DAY IN ROYAL WELCH HISTORY

1 RWF action at Split Hill Piquet Waziristan [now in Pakistan] 1923

In December 1921 the battalion joined the Waziristan Field Force to subdue the Mahsuds.  It was mainly engaged in low-level operations. On 5 February it occupied a permanent piquet on Split Hill.  It was soon under heavy attack by tribesmen. The battalion could not withdraw whilst some of the wounded lay out under enemy fire.  For their part in rescuing the wounded, four fusiliers won MMs.  The battalion withdraw after dark having lost six men.

Martinique

 30th JANUARY 1809 – ON THIS DAY IN ROYAL WELCH HISTORY

1/23rd landed on Martinique, 1809

Martinique was a French naval base in the West Indies. It was decided to capture the island.  A force landed on 30 January and Morne Bruneau was seized on 1 February followed, on the 2nd, by the heights of Des Sourier, which was taken thanks to the ‘determined bravery of the whole detachment.’  During the action the Regiment captured one redoubt for the loss of 26 men killed and wounded. The resulting French counterattack cost the Regiment a further 126 killed and wounded. The Commanding Officer Col Ellis (later killed as Waterloo) was asked to provide his Grenadier Company to storm the last redoubt. He replied “Sir, I will take the flints out of their firelocks and they shall take it.”  

The Royal Welch were awarded 'MARTINIQUE, 1809' as a Battle Honour which to this day is borne on the Regimental Colour. Furthermore, the Napoleonic Eagle standard the French equivalent of British 'Colours'-of the 82nd Regiment of Infantry, which was captured at Martinique, was presented to the Regiment.

Holocaust Memorial Day

 #HolocaustMemorialDay  Read about RWF Charlie Evan's account as he recalls Auschwitz horror

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/4207241.stm