* 1689 – The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.

A large part of the book is taken up by his experience of the First World War, in which Graves served as a lieutenant then captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, alongside his equally famous comrade Siegfried Sassoon.

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Caernarfon is also home to the regimental museum of the Royal Welch Fusiliers ( archaic English spelling of the word Welsh ).

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With the outbreak of the First World War, Jones enlisted with the Royal Welch Fusiliers and served on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918.

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The outbreak of World War II in September 1939 halted his acting career ; Llewelyn was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the British army, serving with the Royal Welch Fusiliers.

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In the Boer War and throughout the First World War, the army officially called the regiment " The Royal Welsh Fusiliers " but the archaic " Welch " was officially restored to the regiment's title in 1920 under Army Order No. 56.

As Fusilier Robert Graves reported, " the regiment retorted by inquiring on what occasion since the retreat from Corunna, when the regiment was the last to leave Spain, with the keys of the town postern in the pocket of one of its officers, had any of His Majesty's enemies seen the back of a Royal Welch Fusilier ?," and the matter remained " in abeyance throughout the war.

The full dress of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, as worn by the entire regiment until 1914, included a racoon-skin hat ( bearskin for officers ) with a white hackle and a scarlet tunic with the dark blue facings of a Royal regiment.

23rd Royal Welch Fusilier depicted guarding Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

In 1914 The Royal Welch participated in the legendary Christmas 1914 Football Game with the Germans.

However, in 2004 it was announced that, as part of the restructuring of the infantry, the Royal Welch Fusiliers would merge with the Royal Regiment of Wales to form a new large regiment, the Royal Welsh.

The Royal Welsh ( The Royal Welch Fusiliers, 23rd of Foot ) was then the name of the first battalion of the new regiment, which still recruited across Wales.

With the July 2012 announcements of further cut backs in the regiments resulting in the disbandment of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh, that left the 1st Battalion the Royal Welsh ( The Royal Welch Fusiliers ) as once more the only non-Guards based infantry regiment drawn from Wales.

The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum is located in Caernarfon, Wales, and the official headquarters are at Wrexham.

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After the First World War Montgomery commanded the 17th Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, a battalion in the British Army of the Rhine, before reverting to his substantive rank of captain ( brevet major ) in November 1919.

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The island town hosts a range of attractions including the Castle Coole Estate and Enniskillen Castle, which is home to the museum of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.

* Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Winston Churchill | Sir Winston Churchill with the Royal Scots Fusiliers near the Western Front in 1916.

* 1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

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* Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada

* Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Highland Fusiliers ( Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment )

Two poets, Irishman Francis Ledwidge, 25, of 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, in 29th Division, and Hedd Wyn, a Welsh-language poet serving with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Pilckem Ridge, were both killed in action on 31 July.

Later he claimed to have served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers.

United States Senator Royal S. Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a great white beard ; ;

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

The Royal Lao Army, on the other hand, was paid and equipped with American funds.

Last week, when Royal was informed that three Longhorns were among the conference's top four in rushing, he said: `` That won't last long ''.

But the Royal Motel in Shamrock was the only one that offered the comfort and security of a storm cellar.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

He was pressed into the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.

The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

It passed through various hands and collections into the Royal Museum at Paris, and was engraved by the Chevalier Visconti.

A Serene Highness by birth, Ena, as she was known, was raised to Royal Highness status a month before her wedding to prevent the union from being viewed as unequal.

In 1864, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In the 2000s, " Absalon " was adopted as the name for a class of Royal Danish Navy vessels, and the lead vessel of the class.

Fleming served throughout World War I as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was Mentioned in Dispatches.

* Fleming was awarded the Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

It was created by a deed which he signed on June 7, 1901, and it was incorporated by Royal Charter on August 21, 1902.

From that time until 1972 the Astronomer Royal was Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

There was also formerly a Royal Astronomer of Ireland.

The Act of Settlement was thus passed and granted Royal Assent in 1701.