The 1st Flintshire Rifle Volunteers, later 5th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, was a Welsh unit of the British Army's auxiliary forces. First raised in 1860, it fought as infantry at Gallipoli, in E
Cap badge of the Royal Welch Fusiliers
Player's cigarette card showing a pioneer of the 5th (Flintshire) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 1908 in full dress uniform.
The Prince of Wales's feathers formation badge of the 53rd (Welsh) Division in the First World War
The former drill hall of the 5th (Flintshire) Bn, RWF, at Connah's Quay in 2014.
The 158th Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army that served in both the First and Second World Wars, before being disbanded in 1968. Throughout its existence the brigade was ass
1st Flintshire Rifle Volunteers
…H Company at Connah's Quay The battalion was jointly administered by the Denbighshire and Flintshire TF Associations. It formed part of the North Wales Brigade of the TF's Welsh Division. On 3 August 1914 the Welsh Division's infantry brigades were at their annual camps when all training was cancelled and the…
A Universal Carrier of the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment being pulled across the Meuse-Escaut (Maas-Schelde) canal on a raft, near Lommel, 19 September 1944.