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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

#ThrowbackThursday to the Second World War and this lovely photograph of some of the Brecknock Battalion. The pic is from a collection of photographs belonging to 3911391 Private S. F. Morris.

#WW2 #WorldWarTwo #archive #photography #collection #museum #history

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 2d

#BlackandWhiteWednesday - pic of three soldiers of the 11th Battalion, Welsh Regiment, (Cardiff Pals) in Salonika, in 1917. Sadly, Private Alex Johnson (right) is the only one named.

#WW1 #FirstWorldWar #soldier #armylife #photograph #history #museum #archive #GreatWar #remembrance #collection

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 4d

#MuscleMonday here are PT Instructors George Price and Joe Rees of the 6th Battalion, Welsh Regiment, flexing their muscles in 1914.

#WW1 #FirstWorldWar #fitness #physicaltraining #armylife #history #collection #archive #photograph #history

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 8d

#ThrowbackThursday to 1885 and huge cap badges! Here’s 2nd Lieutenant Charles Morton Hastings, 3rd Battalion, Welsh Regiment, modelling the oversized Glengarry cap badge consisting of plumes, coronet and the motto of the Prince of Wales.

#army #armylife #uniform #museum #archive #victoriansoldier

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

#WhatIsItWednesday? Your guess is as good as ours! This pic of three of the 2nd Bn, South Wales Borderers, definitely poses more questions than it answers! No idea what’s going on but we do know that RSM Sydney Bean is on the right and that Bandmaster Fenner is astride the lion. Taken in 1914. #WW1

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 10d

For #TravelTuesday we are on board a ship with the 2nd Battalion, 24th of Foot, heading to South Africa. Here’s A Company embarking for the Boer War, 1899-1902.

#BoerWar #armylife #travel #victoriansoldier #history #museum #archive #photograph #blackandwhite

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 14d

#FlashbackFriday to 1900 and the early khaki uniforms for home and foreign service. Here’s Captain A L Careless and the E Company musketry team of the Brecknock Battalion, South Wales Borderers, modelling their new kit.
#uniform #army #armylife #archive #photograph #history #museum #collection

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 15d

#ThrowbackThursday to a time when mules were an integral part of the army! This great photo, taken in 1932, shows the Mule Transport Company of the 2nd Battalion, Welch Regiment, in Rawalpindi, India (now part of Pakistan).
#mule #army #theyservedtoo #armylife #museum #archive #collection

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 15d

#ThrowbackThursday to a time when mules were an integral part of the army! This great photo, taken in 1932, shows the Mule Transport Company of the 2nd Battalion, Welch Regiment, in Rawalpindi, India (now part of Pakistan).

#mule #army #theyservedtoo #armylife #museum #archive #collection

Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 16d

#OnThisDay in 1918 Captain James Arthur Jones, 10th Bn, South Wales Borderers, was killed in action in France. He was one of 200 battalion casualties during the Battle of Villers Outreaux. Capt. Jones is buried in Guizancourt Farm Cemetery, Aisne, France. He was 28 years old. #WW1 #FirstWorldWar

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 17d

#NationalPoetryDay here’s a very moving poem from the remembrance card of 22515 Company Sergeant Major Henry Hopkins of the 13th Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Coy Sgt Maj Hopkins was killed in action on May 18th, 1916, at Festubert, France. He is buried in Rue-Du-Bacquerot Graveyard, Laventie. #WW1

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 20d

#WorldCardMakingDay – here's a Christmas card from 1901 made from a piece of khaki uniform and sent home by 3567 Pte W. Walters of the 2nd Battalion, the South Wales Borderers. Pte Walters was serving in South Africa during the Boer War.
#Army #armylife #victoriansoldier #victorian #BoerWar

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 21d

#FlashbackFriday to Germany in 1943. Here’s a photograph of Welch Regiment prisoners of war being held in Stalag 383, in Bavaria.

#WW2 #SecondWorldWar #archive #photograph #prisoners #POW #history #museum

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 23d

#BlackandWhiteWednesday here’s a great photograph of the 12th Battalion, Welsh Regiment rugby team preparing to play a match against London Welsh in February 1915.
#WW1 #FirstWorldWar #rugby #sport #armylife #archive #history #museum #photograph #collection

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 25d

Fancy cuppa?
☕ Coffee, Welsh cakes & stories from the past… what more could you want?
Don’t forget to join us for our Curator Coffee Morning this Wed 1 Oct, 10am – we can’t wait to see you!

#CoffeeMorning #MeetTheCurator #Community #LocalEvents #MuseumLife

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · 28d

#FlashbackFriday to 1914. Men of the 11th Bn, Welsh Regiment, (Cardiff Pals), wearing their privately purchased brown uniforms, earning them the nickname ‘chocolate soldiers’. They bought it at Jotham’s Ltd in Cardiff and, in the early days, wore Bakelite ‘Cardiff Commercial Battalion’ cap badges.

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 24

#OnThisDay in 1944 4080467 Pte Wilfred Lewis Green, 3rd Bn, Mons Reg, died of wounds in Holland. Wilfred, from Mountain Ash, had fought in the Battle of Normandy and in Belgium before arriving in Holland. He is buried at Mierlo War Cemetery, in the Netherlands. He was 28 years old. #WW2 #OTD

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 20

OnThisDay 1854: The Battle of the Alma marked the opening engagement of the Crimean War.

The 41st Regiment of Foot (later Welch Regiment) advanced with British, French & Ottoman forces, driving Russian defenders toward Sebastopol.

Image: Chas Stadden, Private of the 41st at Alma.

#Crimea #OTD

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 19

#FlashbackFriday to 1942 in Burma. Here is the ‘Health Memoranda’ issued to all soldiers serving in the Pacific. This one belonged to 3914137 Pte C Proll of the 6th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, and is packed full of useful information for surviving in the tropics!
#WW2 #archive #history

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 18

#OnThisDay in 1918 19341 Cpl Evan Lewis Morgan, 11th Battalion, Welsh Regiment, was killed in action during the Third Battle of Doiran on the Macedonian Front. Col Morgan, from Tonyrefail in Wales, is buried at Doiran Military Cemetery. He was 26 years old.
#WW1 #FirstWorldWar #lestweforget

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 17

#BlackandWhiteWednesday, here’s a pic of the officers’ mess of the 1st Battalion, Welch Regiment during the battle of Crete in 1941. The strategically important island was lost to the Germans, despite heavy losses, after they mounted the first major parachute attack of #WW2.

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 14

#OnThisDay in 1914, 7753 L/Cpl William Fuller of the 2nd Bn, Welsh Regiment earned the Victoria Cross for extraordinary bravery. Under heavy fire, he carried a mortally wounded officer 100 yards to safety and dressed his wounds.

#WW1 #VC #Bravery #Gallantry #FirstWorldWar

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 12

#FlashbackFriday - the 6th Bn, SWB, during the battle for the Mayu Tunnels, Burma 1944. They were a key stronghold—packed with ammunition & fiercely guarded by the Japanese. After days of heavy fighting, the battalion broke through with a Sherman tank… setting off some spectacular explosions!

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 11

#ThrowbackThursday to the dinner held to mark the amalgamation of the 3rd and 4th battalions, Royal Regiment of Wales in 1993. The event, held at Cardiff Castle, was immortalised in this painting by Richard A Wills.

#art #painting #army #armylife #collection #history #museum

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Royal Welsh Museum @rwmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 9

It’s #trophytuesday and here is a lovely example from our collection of Regimental silver. This trophy was awarded to the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment Lewis Gun Team – champions of the inter-company Lewis Gun competition from 1922 to 1966!

#Armylife #army #sport #competition #shooting

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