List of battalions of the South Wales Borderers information

This is a list of battalions of the South Wales Borderers from its formation in 1881 until its final amalgamation in 1969. First formed in 1689 and originally...

The South Wales Borderers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for 280 years. It came into existence in England in 1689, as Sir...

Volunteer Battalion of the South Wales Borderers. During World War I it served in garrison at Aden, where it was engaged in the Battle of Lahej. It was amalgamated...

originally of a total of seven battalions: one of these was formed by the amalgamation of the Royal Scots and King's Own Scottish Borderers, while the others...

such as the Royal Welch Fusiliers, had battled in the Western and south-east Asian theatres, whilst the South Wales Borderers had battled in the Mediterranean...

1881 when the South Wales Borderers (SWB) was formed as the local regiment of the Regular Army. The battalion saw active service during the Second Boer...

medically fit. The provisional brigades thus became anomalous, and on 1 January 1917 the remaining infantry units became numbered battalions of appropriate...

This is a list of battalions of the Cheshire Regiment, which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 2007. When the 22nd (Cheshire)...

This is a list of pals battalions (also called "service" or "locally raised" battalions) of the British Army during the First World War. Pre-war Territorial...

transferred to the King's Own Scottish Borderers on 1 May 1887). In addition to the two regular battalions and depot, the regiment now took control of the various...

volunteer battalions of the regular South Wales Borderers. In 1885 they were redesignated as the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Volunteer battalions of the South Wales Borderers...

Brigade: 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 1st Battalion, Border...

Regular Army battalions, plus an Army Reserve battalion. The former regiments formed part of the battalion title (in brackets): 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh...

absorbed into a reserve battalion. In addition to the numbered battalions, there were two named battalions. Several regiments of Canadian Mounted Rifles...

The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), frequently known as the Yorkshire Regiment until the 1920s, was a line infantry...

Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) Lancashire Fusiliers Royal Scots Fusiliers Cheshire Regiment Royal Welsh Fusiliers South Wales Borderers King's...

together the four volunteer battalions of the Welsh Regiment, previously scattered among several brigades. The composition of the new South Wales Brigade...

of multi-battalion regiments. In England, Wales and Scotland, each regiment was to have two regular or "line" battalions and two militia battalions....

the 36th Army Tank Brigade shortly after that. 212th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) 6th Battalion, The South Wales Borderers 9th Battalion, The Royal...

immediately after the battle: It was full of dead Prussian Guards, big men, and dead Royal Welch Fusiliers and South Wales Borderers, little men. Not a...

7th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland 3rd Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) 4th Battalion, The Princess...

Browne was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 24th Regiment of Foot (later The South Wales Borderers) on 23 September 1871, and promoted to lieutenant...

as part of the 3rd Militia Brigade, training alongside the militia battalions of the Gloucestershire Regiment and the South Wales Borderers. The operations...

scheduled to each lose a battalion. Three new single battalion regiments were created out of this process - the South Wales Borderers and the Welch Regiment united...