Authors and Contributors this page: Wienand Drenth, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 20.12.2004
 
Welsh Volunteers,
and
The Royal Welsh Regiment
1967-1971, 1999-present
cap badge, 1967-1971
United Kingdom 
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons

  Badges and Uniforms
  Colonels
 Traditions
 Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage Welsh County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles
1967.04.01 Welsh Volunteers
formed in TAVR II with HQ at Maindy Barracks, Cardiff, with companies serving as successors to TA battalions of the Welsh Brigade
 
1969.01.01

D Company (Royal Welch Fusiliers) formed at Caernarvon and Aberystwyth from 6th/7th (T) Bn The Royal Welch Fusiliers upon its reduction to cadre

1970

A Coy formed platoon at Prestayn from 208 Battery 103 Regiment RA (V)

1971.04.01 battalion disbanded and companies reorganised to form new battalions: HQ Coy, B Coy and C Coy redesignated as HQ Company, B Company and C Company 3rd (V) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales respectively; A Coy and D Coy redesignated as A Company and D Company 3rd (V) Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers
1999.07.01 The Royal Welsh Regiment
formed with HQ at Maindy Barracks, Cardiff, by amalgamation of 3rd (V) Bn, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, and 2nd (V) Bn, The Royal Regiment of Wales (support plns of RWF companies share a Recce and an Assault Pioneer Platoon, of the RRW companies share Mortar and Anti-Tank Platoons)
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Volunteers
History:
The Royal Welsh Regiment (Army site)
The Royal Welsh Regiment (Regimental site)
The Royal Welsh Regiment (Reserve and Cadet Forces in Wales)
Welsh TA Companies (Regimental site)
Territorial Companies, The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Regimental site)
   
Deployment and War Service of Units:
 
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
[no external sites have been found]
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
[no external sites have been found]
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
[no external sites have been found]
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Presentation of New Colours (Army site)
Record of Colours:
2003.07.05 First stand of Colours presented by HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales at Cardiff Castle
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges:
Cap badges (1999): companies wear badge of their parent regiments [q.v.].
Uniform:
   
   
     
   
   
  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
1967.04.01 Col. Sir William R. Crawshay, DSO, ERD, TD, ADC, DL
 
  Note: from 1999 Honorary Colonels of the companies [q.v.] are also Deputy Honorary Colonels of the regiment.
     
1999.07.01 Capt. Norman Lloyd-Edwards, KStJ, RD, LLB, JP, RNR [Lord Lt of South Glamorgan]
2003.07.05 Lt-Col. R.L. Traherne
     
  Deputy Honorary Colonel (1):
  1999.07.01 Col. J.C.W. Williams, MC
     
  Deputy Honorary Colonel (2):
  1999.07.01 Col. N.A. Jones, TD
  Traditions
 
Motto: Nerth Mewn Undod (1999) – Strength through Unity
Nicknames:
Anniversaries: St. David's Day (1 Mar.)
Freedoms:
Marches:
Musicians: Band formed 1999 by redesignation of The Wales Territorial Army Band.
Mascot: Goats: Billy (North Wales), Shenkin (South Wales)
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Bibliography How To Find Books