Infantry regiment. It was founded to oppose King James II and the forthcoming war with France, and saw action in many later conflicts. During World War I, several writers, including Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves saw service with the regiment. In 2006, it merged with the Royal Regiment of Wales, to become the Royal Welsh.
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23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Pilot Officer John Keith Alexander was born on 23 August 1912 in Joplin, Missouri, USA, the eldest of the five children of Ernest Earl Alexander (1890-1961) and Gladys Juanita Alexander née Burton ...
Founded as an academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. Originally located in a converted workshop of the Royal Arsenal and so popularly known as...
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Michael Graham Ruddock Sandberg was born on 31 May 1927, the youngest of the three children of Gerald Arthur Clifford Sandberg (1882-1954) and Ethel Marian Cli...
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