The Royal Welsh is an armoured infantry regiment of the British Army. It was established in 2006 from the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the Royal Regiment of Wales.
Soldiers from the Mobility Reconnaissance Force of 1 Royal Welsh take up a defensive position north of Patrol Base Wahid, Nad-E' Ali, Helmand during a patrol.
The Royal Welch Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, and part of the Prince of Wales's Division, that was founded in 1689, shortly after the Glorious Revolution. In 1702, it was
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Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Chirbury, founder of the regiment
Minden, 1 August 1759, an action still celebrated as Minden Day
Monument to Royal Welch Fusiliers who died in the Invasion of Martinique (1809), St. George's (Round) Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia