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23rd Foot

23rd Regiment of Foot
Welch Regiment of Fusiliers
Royal Welch Regiment of Fusiliers
Royal Welch Fusiliers
Royal Welsh Fusiliers Cap Badge.jpg
Regimental cap badge of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
Active 16 March 1689 – 28 February 2006
Allegiance

 Kingdom of England (to 1707)
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)

 United Kingdom (1801–2006)
Branch  British Army
Type Infantry
Role Line infantry
Size 1–2 Regular battalions
4–12 Volunteer and Territorial battalions
Up to 25 hostilities-only battalions
Garrison/HQ Hightown Barracks, Wrexham
Motto(s) Ich Dien
Anniversaries St. David's Day (1 March)
Engagements Williamite War in Ireland
Nine Years' War
War of the Spanish Succession
War of the Austrian Succession
Seven Years' War
American War of Independence
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
Crimean War
Second China War
Indian Mutiny
Third Anglo-Burmese War
Second Boer War
First World War
Second World War
The Troubles
Yugoslav Wars
Commanders
Ceremonial chief HM The Queen
Colonel of
the Regiment
Major-General Brian Plummer

 Kingdom of England (to 1707)
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)

The Royal Welch Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. It was founded in 1689 to oppose James II and to take part in the imminent war with France. The regiment was numbered as the 23rd Regiment of Foot, though it was one of the first regiments to be granted the honour of a fusilier title and so was known as The Welch Regiment of Fusiliers from 1702. The "Royal" accolade was earned fighting in the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713.

It was one of the oldest infantry regiments in the British Army, hence the archaic spelling of the word Welch instead of Welsh. In the Boer War and throughout the First World War, the army officially called the regiment "The Royal Welsh Fusiliers", but the archaic "Welch" was officially restored to the regiment's title in 1920 under Army Order No.56. During those decades, the regiment itself unofficially used the "Welch" form. The regiment was amalgamated with the Royal Regiment of Wales (RRW) on 1 March 2006, to become the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh (RRW becoming the 2nd Battalion).


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