1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, British Army

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1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, British Army
Years active:	unknown – unknown
Country:	United Kingdom
Service:	British Army
Branch:	Regular Army (British Army)
Type:	Infantry
Specific type:	Infantry battalion
Full size:	1,000
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Created:	unknown.
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Name1:	1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Name1 Start:	unknown
Name1 End:	unknown
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Disbanded:	unknown.
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For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war.

Command structure
Relationship type:	Administrative
Parent unit:	Royal Welsh Fusiliers, British Army
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Start date:	unknown
End date:	unknown
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Command structure
Relationship type:	Tactical
Parent unit:	22nd Infantry Brigade, British Army
Parent level:	Brigade
Start date:	01/10/1914
End date:	30/11/1917
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Command structure
Relationship type:	Tactical
Parent unit:	9th Indian Infantry Brigade
Parent level:	Brigade
Start date:	01/02/1923
End date:	31/03/1923
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Theatre of war
Theatre name:	France, Belgium and Germany
Date entered:	01/10/1914
Date left:	30/11/1917
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Theatre of war
Theatre name:	Italy
Date entered:	01/12/1917
Date left:	31/01/1919
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Theatre of war
Theatre name:	India and East Persia
Date entered:	01/02/1923
Date left:	31/03/1923
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Personal narratives

Siegfried Sassoon

The famous poet Siegfried Sassoon served in these units:

• 1/1st Sussex Yeomanry, British Army
• 3rd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, British Army
• 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, British Army
• 25th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, British Army in Palestine, early 1918
• 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, British Army

Siegfried Sassoon's journals are online at Cambridge Digital Library (but note that his Memoirs of an Infantry Officer is a fictionalised novel, not his own memoirs).

Official sources

Unit war diaries

• The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/1665/1 (01/10/1914–30/11/1917)
• The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/4226 (01/12/1917–31/01/1919)
• The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/5400 (01/02/1923–31/03/1923)

References

This page contains data imported from the UK National Archives Discovery catalogue, licensed under Open Government Licence v2.0.