The Welsh Guards (WG; Welsh: Gwarchodlu Cymreig), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. It was founded...
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Battalion, Welsh Guards 1st Battalion, London Guards (Reserve) Ypres Company, Grenadier Guards, in Kingston upon Thames No 17 Company, Coldstream Guards, in...
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1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) is a regiment in the Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army. Nicknamed The Welsh Cavalry, the regiment recruits...
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World War from elements of the Guards units, the Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Welsh Guards, and the Household Cavalry...
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In some militaries, foot guards are senior infantry regiments. Foot guards are commonly responsible for guarding royal families or other state leaders...
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of the five Foot Guards regiments of the Household Division is selected to slowly troop (carry) its colour through the ranks of guards, who stand with...
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Band of the Welsh Guards is the youngest of the five bands in the Foot Guards Regiments in the Household Division, specifically the Welsh Guards which primarily...
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fifth Guards regiment was raised, known as the Welsh Guards. In recognition of the significant contribution Welshmen had made to the Grenadier Guards, the...
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King's Guard are usually formed from one of the five regiments of foot guards: Grenadier Guards Coldstream Guards Scots Guards Irish Guards Welsh Guards In...
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Irish Guards and Welsh Guards. The Household Division also includes the following incremental companies: Nijmegan Company – Grenadier Guards, No 7 Company...
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Company, Scots Guards 1st Battalion, Irish Guards No. 9 Company, Irish Guards No. 12 Company, Irish Guards 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards 1st Battalion,...
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training units 20th Guards Brigade Group (Brigadier William Fox-Pitt) 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards 2nd Battalion, Welsh Guards 20th Guards Brigade Anti-Tank...
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Men of Harlech (category Welsh Guards)
the Welsh Guards, the quick march of the Royal Welsh, and the march of the Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal), The Governor General's Horse Guards, and...
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Ben Bathurst (category Welsh Guards officers)
Bathurst was commissioned into the Welsh Guards in September 1983. He became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards in July 2004. In 2005, he was...
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up for half the Welsh Guards to march light on the night of 2 June, whilst the Scots Guards and the second half of the Welsh Guards were to be ferried...
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The Irish Guards (IG) is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army and is part of the Guards Division. Together with the Royal Irish Regiment...
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Christopher Furness (VC) (category Welsh Guards officers)
College. Furness was 28 years old, and a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards, British Army during the Second World War Battle of France when the following...
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Simon Weston (category Welsh Guards soldiers)
caught as a passenger in a car stolen by his older friends. He joined the Welsh Guards in 1978 at the age of 16 at the insistence of his mother, after he "got...
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Infantry of the British Army (section Guards Division)
District 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards (Public Duties) Nijmegen Company, Grenadier Guards (Public Duties) No. 7 Company, Coldstream Guards (Public Duties) F Company...
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Horse Guards Parade took place on 4 June 1805. In 1895 two Troopings were performed, on consecutive days, by different battalions of the Scots Guards at...
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Rex Whistler (category Welsh Guards officers)
the army. He was commissioned into the Welsh Guards as a Second lieutenant in June 1940. He served in the Guards Armoured Division. During the war he was...
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Armed forces in Wales (redirect from Welsh military)
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards is the Cavalry Regiment of Wales and the border counties, and is commonly known as The Welsh Cavalry; it is currently...
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Y Wladfa (redirect from Welsh Patagonia)
Wladfa (Welsh pronunciation: [ə ˈwladva], 'The Colony'), also occasionally Y Wladychfa Gymreig (Welsh pronunciation: [ə wlaˈdəχva ɡəmˈreiɡ], 'The Welsh Settlement')...
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The Guards Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was formed in the Great War in France in 1915 from battalions of the Guards regiments...
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Bill Mott (British Army soldier) (category Welsh Guards soldiers)
brought up in Overpool, Cheshire, before enlisting into the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards in April 1979. He saw operational tours in Northern Ireland and during...
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Equerry from the Grenadier Guards, the Queen Mother one from the Irish Guards, the Prince of Wales one from the Welsh Guards. Look up equerry in Wiktionary...
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Jock Lewes (category Welsh Guards officers)
Hamlets Rifles, Rifle Brigade on 2 September 1939 before joining the Welsh Guards on 28 October. In 1941, Lewes was in a group of volunteers assembled...
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Rupert Thorneloe (category Welsh Guards officers)
Thorneloe was commissioned as a second lieutenant on probation in the Welsh Guards on a short service commission. His commission was later confirmed and...
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Robert Bye (category Welsh Guards soldiers)
born in Pontypridd. He was 27 years old, and a Sergeant in the 1st Bn., Welsh Guards, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took...
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Terry Richards (category Welsh Guards soldiers)
Welsh parents, he served in the Welsh Guards. After finishing his national service, in 1957 whilst working as a scaffolder, a friend from the Guards told...
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