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Roll of Honour of Officers of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Who Died in the Great War

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Regimental Battle Honours of the Great War

The sheer scale of the Great War led to a previously unheard of number of honours being awarded and it was simply impractical to emblazon every one of them on the Regimental Colour.   In September 1922 it was ordered that Regiments should select up to 10 Honours to be emblazoned on their Regimental Colours along with previous awards, up to a total of 24.   This led to a storm of protest, since many Regiments would have had to remove previous Honours.    The order was therefore amended in the following December, to allow each Infantry Regiment to select up to 10 Honours to be emblazoned on its King's/Queen's Colour, Honours from other conflicts continuing to be displayed on the Regimental Colour.

 

                                                     Battle Honours earned by Battalions of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War (76 Battle Honours)

Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914 '17 '18, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Bullecourt, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–1918, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917–1918, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915–1918, Suvla, Sari Bair, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915–1916, Rumani, Egypt 1915–1917, Gaza, El Mughar, Jerusalem, Jericho, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Nablus, Palestine 1917–1918, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916–1918

 

Regimental Rolls of Honour of Officer Casualties of the Great War

 

 

 

Roll of Honour by Surname

Surnames - A

Surnames - B

Surnames - C

Surnames - D

Surnames - E

Surnames - F

Surnames - G

Surnames - H

Surnames - I - J - K

Surnames - L

Surnames - M

Surnames - N

Surnames - O

Surnames - P - Q

Surnames - R

Surnames - S

Surnames - T

Surnames - V

Surnames - W

After John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" was published in 1915, the poppy became the international symbol for the remembrance of those who died in battle

 

Poppy Fields

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

 

 

 

 

 

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Royal Welsh Fusiliers Officers Regimental Rolls of Honour by Surname  |

Surnames - A  |  Surnames - B  | Surnames - C  |  Surnames - D  |  Surnames - E  |  Surnames - F  |  Surnames - G  |  Surnames - H  |  Surnames - I, J, K  |  Surnames - L  |

Surnames - M  |  Surnames - N  |  Surnames - O  |  Surnames - P and Q  |  Surnames - R  |  Surnames - S  |  Surnames - T  |  Surnames - V  |  Surnames - W  |

Royal Welsh Fusiliers Officers Regimental Roll of Honour By Unit  |

1st Battalion  |  2nd Battalion  |  3rd (Reserve) Battalion  |  1/4th (Denbighshire) Battalion TF  |  1/5th (Flintshire) Battalion TF  |  1/6th (Carnarvon and Anglesey) Battalion TF  |

1/7th (Merioneth and Montgomery) Battalion TF  |  8th (Service) Battalion  |  9th (Service) Battalion  |  10th (Service) Battalion  |  11th (Service) Battalion  |

13th (Service) Battalion  |  14th (Service) Battalion  |  15th (Service) Battalion (1st North Wales )16th (Service) Battalion  |  17th (Service) Battalion (2nd North Wales)  |

19th (Service) Battalion  |  24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Battalion TF  |  25th (Merioneth and Montgomery Yeomanry) Battalion TF  |  26th (Service) Battalion  |

1st (Garrison) Battalion  |  2nd (Garrison) Battalion  |

Detached Officers  |  Non-Active List/Former Service Officers  |  Attached Officers  |

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