24th Regiment of Foot 24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot South Wales Borderers
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Active
1689–1969
Country
Kingdom of England (1689–1707) Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) United Kingdom (1801–1969)
Branch
British Army
Type
Infantry
Role
Line infantry
Garrison/HQ
The Barracks, Brecon
Nickname(s)
Howard's Greens
March
Men of Harlech
Anniversaries
Rorke's Drift (22 January)
Commanders
Ceremonial chief
King Edward VIII
Military unit
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 Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot, and afterwards had a variety of names and headquarters. In 1782, it became the 24th Regiment of Foot, and had its depot in Warwickshire.
Based at Brecon from 1873, the regiment recruited from the border counties of Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire, and Herefordshire. It was not called the South Wales Borderers until the Childers Reforms of 1881. The regiment served in a great many conflicts, including the American War of Independence, various conflicts in India, the Zulu War, Second Boer War, and World War I and World War II. In 1969 the regiment was amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales.
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Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh, formerly the SouthWalesBorderers Museum, is located at Brecon in Wales. The museum's collection is made up of artefacts...
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1969 by the amalgamation of the SouthWalesBorderers and the Welch Regiment. The 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) had a short...
January 1879, Bourne was part of the garrison at Rorke's Drift, Natal, South Africa, which held off a Zulu army. Bourne, who was now an NCO in B Company...
Colonel of the SouthWalesBorderers from 1944 to 1949. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the SouthWalesBorderers Museum, Brecon, Powys, Wales. He was married...
forces. First raised in 1859, it became a Volunteer Battalion of the SouthWalesBorderers. During World War I it served in garrison at Aden, where it was...
(1914). During the First World War, Blore enlisted and served in the SouthWalesBorderers and later joined the Royal Flying Corps, before being assigned to...
In 1969 the regiment was amalgamated with the SouthWalesBorderers to form the Royal Regiment of Wales. The regiment was created in 1881 under the Childers...
the militia battalions of the Gloucestershire Regiment and the SouthWalesBorderers. The operations included a visit to Fort Popton for an instruction...
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