Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum

Amgueddfa Ffiwsilwyr Brenhinol Cymreig Caernarfon, Cymru - Wales, UK

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#GwylAmgueddfeydd yn dechrau heddiw! #WelshMuseumsFest starts today! http://thndr.me/5yASSm

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Welsh Museums Festival

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A false tree used by the British as an observation post in No Man’s Land.

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At y dyddiadau canlynol yn Ebrill 2017

8, 9,10, 14,15, 17,18, 19, 20,21, 22, 23

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On the following dates

8th April 9th April 10th April 14th April 15th April 17th April 18th April 19th April 20th April 21st April 22nd April 23rd April

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Royal Welsh Fusilier 1915 by Paul Reed

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Our poet at Passchendaele 1917

Hedd Wyn (born Ellis Humphrey Evans, 13 January 1887 – 31 July 1917) was a Welsh language poet who was killed near Ypres, Belgium, during the Battle of Passchendaele in World War I. He was a Royal Welsh Fusilier.

He was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod. Evans, who had been awarded several chairs for his poetry, was inspired to take the bardic name Hedd Wyn (Welsh: blessed peace) from the way sunlight penetrated the mist in the Meirionydd valleys.

His style, which was influenced by romantic poetry, was dominated by themes of nature and religion. He also wrote several war poems following the outbreak of war on the Western Front.

For more information - see

http://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/1123

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Henry, 4th Lord Herbert of Chirbury commissioned to raise a regiment of foot, 1689

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Our Regiment is born!

16th March 1689 – ON THIS DAY IN RWF HISTORY

Henry, 4th Lord Herbert of Chirbury commissioned to raise a regiment of foot, 1689 On 16 March 1689 King William III authorised nine of his supporters to raise regiments of infantry. Lord Herbert of Chirbury was allocated the counties of Montgomery, Radnor and Shropshire. Pressure of political business soon forced him to resign and he was succeeded by his cousin Charles Herbert. The new Regiment, known as Herbert’s Regiment, assembled at Ludlow.

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Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum turned 3 today on Tumblr!!!

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Book review

Book Review

Michael Crawley "The Unknown Grandfather"

Cawley, Michael Robinson, The Unknown Grandfather. ( Greyhound Self-Publishing: Worcester, 2015). 121p 81 illus 1map. ISBN 978-1-909219-25-0 As the title suggests this is the biography of the author’s grandfather, Robert Robinson Cawley, a Lancashire man, who served with 1 RWF in India, the Boer War and in the UK between 1890 and 1906. He was the battalion Drum Major before leaving the Army. At the outbreak of the First World War he was recalled to the Colours and posted to the 8th (Service) Battalion RWF which formed at Wrexham. As an ex-regular his experience would have been in high demand in this brand new Battalion with very few men with prior military service. He served with 8 RWF in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia before being awarded a Quartermaster’s commission and posted to India to assist in the training of Indian Army units. Tragically he died of Malaria on 30 June 1918 aged 41. This is a useful book as little has been written about 8 RWF and the author makes good use of existing service records and some personal papers to tell his grandfather’s story. A worthwhile addition our knowledge of the Old Contemptibles who fought in both the Boer and First World Wars.

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