1689: Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot

1747: ranked as 24thFoot

1751: 24th Regiment of Foot

1782 24th (the 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot

1881: The South Wales Borderers, (re-organised as the county regiments of Cardiganshire, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire and Radnor

1969: amalgamated with The Welch Regiment to form The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41stFoot)

Word War One - 18 Battalions

Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, Ypres 1914 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Pozières, Flers Courcelette, Morval, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917, Messines 1917 '18, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Helles, Landing at Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Sari Bair, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915-16, Egypt 1916, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-18, Tsingtao

Battle Honours WW2

Norway 1940, Normandy Landing, Sully, Caen, Falaise, Risle Crossing, Le Havre, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, Scheldt, Zetten, Arnhem 1945, North-West Europe 1944-45, Gazala, North Africa 1942, North Arakan, Mayu Tunnels, Pinwe, Shweli, Myitson, Burma 1944-45

 

Museum

The Royal Regiment of Wales Museum

Deployment

1st Battalion

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The South Wales Borderers
1881 England: Colchester
1883 Ireland: Kilkenny
1885 Curragh
1887 Ireland: Dublin
1889 England: Aldershot
1893 Egypt
1895 Gibraltar
1897 India: Chakratta
1903.01 Dalhousie
1905.03 Karachi
1909.03 Quetta
1910.12 England: Chatham
1913.09 Bordon 3 Bde
1914.08 France and Flanders 1 Div
1919 Ireland: Dunshaughlin
1922.02 Blackdown
1923.09 England: Devonport
1927.02 Lichfield
1928.09 Egypt
1930.11 Hong Kong
1934.12 India: Rawalpindi
1937 Iraq (temp)
1938.10 NW Frontier: Landi Kotal
1940 India
1940.11 Iraq/Persia 10 Ind Div
1942 Libya
1942.08.29 disbanded in Cyprus after heavy casualties (personnel to 1st Bn, The King's Own Royal Regiment, less cadre to UK)
1942.12.12 re-formed in UK from cadre
1942.12 UK 38 Inf Div
1944.09 UK 61 Div
1945 Palestine
1946 Cyprus
1949.01 Sudan
1950.01.04 Eritrea Occupation force
1952.09.16 at sea
1952.10 Wales: Brecon
1953.01 Germany: Brunswick 11 Armd Div
1955.10 Malaya
1958.05 Wales: Brecon
1960.06 Germany: Minden
1962.11 England: Worcester
1963.06 Hong Kong
1966.06 England: Dover/Lydd
1967.01 [Aden]
1967.11 England: Dover/Lydd
1969.06.11 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Welch Regiment, to form 1st Bn, The Royal Regiment of Wales

2nd Battalion

1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Welsh Regiment
1881 England: Sheffield
1883 Ireland: Mullingar
1888 Cork
1891 England: Devonport
1892.09.04 at sea
1892 India: Secunderabad
1897 Bellary
1899 Ahmednagar
1901 Subathu
1904 Quetta
1906 South Africa
1910 England: Pembroke Dock
1912 Bordon 3 Bde
1914.08 France and Flanders 1 Div
1919 England: Pembroke Dock
1920.01 Ireland: Dublin
1921.01.01 2nd Battalion, The Welch Regiment
1922.12 England: Colchester
1925 England: Tidworth
1927 Shanghai
1928 Singapore
1931.03 India: Rawalpindi
1933 Landi Kotal
1935 NW Frontier
1936.03 Agra
1937 Delhi
1939 Bombay
1942.08 Burma 19 Ind Div
1945 Burma
1947 UK
1948.06.14 amalgamated with 1st Battalion