Following on from the success of last year’s inaugural RWF Fest, the Friends of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (RWF) Museum will be holding the second annual edition at Hightown Barracks, Wrexham on Saturday, 12th October.
Tickets for this limited event are now on sale. The day will see talks, displays from the RWF Museum archives and demonstrations by Napoleonic re-enactors.
The speakers are national and International experts, such as retired surgeon Mr Mick Crumplin. An internationally recognised authority on Napoleonic Military medicine. Other speakers will cover World War I and II.
Lunch is included in the ticket price, and you can meet and talk to the presenters. You can find tickets and further information on eventbrite.com.
Welch Regiment of Fusiliers
The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Ffiwsilwyr Brenhinol Cymreig) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army and part of the Prince of Wales’s Division, founded in 1689.
In 1702, it was a fusilier regiment and became the Welch Regiment of Fusiliers. The regiment added the prefix “Royal” in 1713, and a year later, George I named it the Prince of Wales’s Own Royal Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers.
After regiment naming reforms, it became the 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welsh Fuzileers).
The regiment retained the archaic spelling of Welch instead of Welsh and Fuzileers for Fusiliers. These names were engraved on swords carried by regimental officers during the Napoleonic Wars.
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