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	Saudi Aramco World : The Ghosts at Gallipoli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bordered on the west by the Gulf of Saros and on the east by the Dardanelles - the ancient Hellespont- the Gallipoli peninsula extends some 80 kilometers (50 miles) in a southwesterly direction.
		Below the monument is V Beach, where troops attempting to land were slaughtered by rifle and machine gun fire, their blood turning the sea red for a distance of 45 meters (50 yards) out from shore.
		Before the night was over, however, they had been forced to withdraw with the South Wales Borderers losing a third of their men, among them Private Charles A. Beresford, my grandfather.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198406/the.ghosts.at.gallipoli.htm (2860 words)

	Major-General Dudley Graham JOHNSON, V.C CB DSO & Bar MC
		The South Wales Borderers (attached 2nd Bn The Royal Sussex Regiment).
		The position was strong and the assaulting and bridging parties were halted on arrival at the waterway 100 yards from the Canal by a heavy barrage.
		Became the Colonel of the South Wales Borderers 1944-49.
	freespace.virgin.net /churchcrookham.home/people/johnson_vc.htm (300 words)

	Attractions near Brecon Mountain Railway on AboutBritain.com
		Cefn Coed Colliery is unique, standing as it does in one of the most beautiful and unspoilt valleys in the South Wales coalfield.
		South Wale's very own Forest Park boasts more than 9,000 acres of woodland, specially set aside by Forest Enterprise Wales for you to explore and enjoy.
		Centuries of Wales' tradition, culture, industry and costume are gathered together in a hundred acres of beautiful countryside.
	www.aboutbritain.com /AttractionsNearBreconMountainRailway.asp (407 words)

	Research and Remembrance - Ray Westlake - War Memorials
		Almost the last to leave Gallipoli, the 4th South Wales Borderers evacuated the Peninsula on 7 January, 1916, and after a short rest on the island of Mudros, sailed for Egypt.
		But now it was the turn of the 1st South Wales Borderers, who, having climbed from their trenches at 2 am, notes the Battalion records, would be immediately met by heavy machine gun fire.
		S.W.B. As part of "Kitchener`s New Army," the 10th Borderers fought in France and Belgium with the 38th (Welsh) Division.
	www.hellfire-corner.demon.co.uk /Westlake23.htm (3961 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Wales \| Rorke's Drift 125 year anniversary
		Ex-soldiers in the Borderers, which has since merged with other regiments to form the modern-day Royal Regiment of Wales, have flown to Africa to join Welsh First Minister Rhodri Morgan, Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi and British High Commissioner in South Africa, Ann Grant, in remembrance of their heroic predecessors on Friday.
		Links between the Zulu nation and Wales have been forged since the legendary battle and a largely Zulu regiment in the modern-day South African army awards a bravery medal named after Rorke's Drift soldier John Chard - the character played by Rhondda actor Baker in the film.
		Retired Royal Regiment of Wales soldier Rodney Ashwood, from Brecon, said the battle of Rorke's Drift had always had a prominent place in the folklore of Welsh troops, but the film had made the stand famous to the wider public.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_news/wales/3419343.stm (691 words)

	The Welch Regiment
		or generations the young men of South Wales, from the valleys and the coastal towns and cities, flocked to the colours of the Welch Regiment.
		The Regiment was formed on 11th March, 1719, and continued through 250 years until its amalgamation on 11th June, 1969, with The South Wales Borderers (24th Regiment) at a ceremony in the grounds of this castle to form The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st) Foot.
		In 1751 the Regiment of Invalids became the 41st Regiment of Foot, and in 1756 a second Battalion of the 24th Regiment (later the South Wales Borderers) was raised, which two years afterwards became the 69th Regiment of Foot.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /jj.griffiths/1024/wc/cardiff/CCWR.html (870 words)

	Western Front Association Contributed Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But the Germans, forewarned by the Hawthorn Ridge explosion, quickly prepared for the attack and the advancing South Wales Borderers were hit by intense machine gun fire and shrapnel shells as they reached the outer edge of their own barbed wire.
		Attack on left (by the 1st Border Regiment) observed to be equally unsuccessful.' At 08.45 the attack ceased.
		The South Wales Borderers may have been misled by the extreme accuracy of the well-trained German machine gunners firing from this direction and may have overestimated the number of machine guns in the position indicated on the sketch map.
	www.westernfront.co.uk /thegreatwar/articles/research/newfoundlandpark.htm (2575 words)

	Glamorgan Antiques \| Famous Regiments
		These silver wreaths were borne by both battalions of The South Wales Borderers, and the original wreath with which the Queen decorated the colour of the 1st battalion is preserved in the Officer's mess.
		An ancient regiment steeped in history.The title Earl of Carrick, was extant in the 12th century, and Carrick was one of the 7 earldoms(mentioned in the charter of Scone in 1114) by whose sanction the King of Scotland governed.The Carrick territory covered much of South Ayrshire and part of the adjoining counties.
		Raised in South Wales in September,1914,the 6th service Battn went to France a year later as the Pioneer Battn of the 25th Division, and spent the winter in the Armentieres sector doing heavy work in flooded trenches.
	www.glamorganantiques.co.uk /famousregiments.htm (837 words)

	Army, SAS & Military Training in the Brecon Beacons National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1969 two of the regiments of Wales, the South Wales Borderers and the Welch regiment were amalgamated to form The Royal Regiment of Wales which is based at Brecon formally the base of the South Wales Borderers.
		The South Wales Borderers which had a long association with Brecon had a distinguished military history and participated in the American War of Independence, the Sikh Wars, and the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough.
		of the South Wales Borders Museum which is open to the public and located in the barracks in Brecon contains a variety of interesting exhibits from this period in the regiments history.
	www.brecon-beacons.com /army-military-training.htm (809 words)

	Page Two Brecon: A Border Town
		At an encampment on fields at Defynnog, to the south of the Black castle at Sennybridge, the king empowered a one Sir John Oldcastle to grant pardons to all the rebels in the surrounding lordships from Builth to Brecon
		It houses the Infantry Training Centre for Wales and the Old Barracks is home to both 160 Wales Brigade and the South Wales Borderers Military Museum.
		Do please click the insignia to the left to get to the South Wales Borderers museum at Brecon, so that you may 'feel' the affinity that the people of Wales have with the South Wales Borderers, the 24th of foot.
	www.red-dragon-wales.com /PlacesofIntrest/BreconPageTwo.htm (566 words)

	GENUKI: Wales
		National Synod of Wales The National Synod of Wales of the United Reformed Church, is one of thirteen Synods that cover England, Wales and Scotland.
		Maps of England and Wales in 1643 (808k) and Maps of England and Wales 1660-1892 (479k) which were obtained courtesy of Ancestry, who retain copyright and reserve all rights in them.
		The Royal Regiment of Wales was formed in 1969 by the amalgamation of two of Wales' most famous and distinguished regiments, namely The South Wales Borderers (24th Foot) and The Welch Regiment (41st/69th Foot).
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/wal (6531 words)

	R.Regiment of Wales
		The Royal Regiment of Wales was formed by the amalgamation of the South Wales Borderers (24th of Foot) and the Welch Regiment (41st of Foot) in 1969.
		The South Wales Borderers were raised in 1689 as Dering's Regiment becoming the 24th of Foot in 1751.
		The 2nd Battalion Worcester Regiment and South Wales Borderers arriving in the grounds of the Chateau at Gheluvelt after their historic counter attack on 31st October 1914.
	regimental-art.com /royal_regiment_wales.htm (2249 words)

	Independent Catholic News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A Service of Reconciliation was held at St Augustine's Mission, near Rorke's Drift, South Africa, on Saturday, to mark the 125th anniversary of the battles of Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift.
		The next day 145 South Wales Borderers held off a massive army of Zulu warriors at the Swedish Lutheran mission station of Rorke's Drift.
		The curator of the Royal Regiment of Wales (RRW) museum Major Martin Everett, said: "At the chapel service Welsh hymns were sung and the dead of both sides remembered.
	www.indcatholicnews.com /zull.html (302 words)

	Newport South Wales UK from 1890 to 1899
		On the occasion of his 25th appearance for Wales a song was written in his honour.
		A meeting of ratepayers was held at the Pantheon to discuss the proposal to close public houses in the County on Sundays.
		To-add to the gloom New Year's Eve was a Sunday and in Newport on the borders of Wales it was not the liveliest place at the best of time, particularly on a Victorian Welsh Sabbath.
	www.newportpast.com /nfs/y90t99/chapter8.htm (3000 words)

	We Have Moved - 1/24th South Wales Borderers platoon in open-order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		From possibly the most well-known regiment of the period, companies of the 24th South Wales Borderers regiment of foot were involved in the famous defeat at Isandlwana, and later that day, the heroic defense of Rorke's Drift.
		This platoon of 20 men have dyed their sun-helmets in tea, a practise that was becoming popular in other parts of the Empire, which created a less dazzling and obvious target for Boer marksmen and the like.
		One of their number is a sergeant, indicated by three chevrons on his right arm.
	aa.1asphost.com /endeavours/unit.asp?unit=1 (100 words)

	Dudley G. Johnson VC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The position was strong and before the bridge could be thrown, a steep bank leading up to the lock and a waterway about 100 yards short of the canal had to be crossed.
		His VC is held at the regimental museum of the South Wales Borderers, at Brecon in Powys, who often claim this award!
		Their objective was to cross an area of fields, bordered with high hedges, and then cross the canal at a point where their was a Lock House.
	battlefields1418.50megs.com /dudley_g__johnson_vc.htm (599 words)

	Centre for First World War Studies
		He was commissioned in the South Wales Borderers on 19 November 1892.
		When the war broke out he was serving with 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers in the rank of major.
		After eight months in command of 1st South Wales Borderers, Reddie was promoted to brigade command as GOC 1st Brigade, 1st Division.
	www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk /donkey/reddie.htm (423 words)

	swaleswfa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The South Wales Borderers The Welsh Regiment The Monmouthshire Regiment
		The South Wales Branch, the oldest of the Welsh branches, was formed at Cardiff in January 1982 with 9 members.
		The Division consisted of battalions from the three Welsh regiments, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, The South Wales Borderers and The Welsh Regiment.
	www.powell76.freeserve.co.uk (915 words)

	2nd Battalion, The Monmouthshire Regiment [UK]
		The Monmouthshire (Territorial) Battalion, The South Wales Borderers,
		South Wales Borderers and Monmouthshire Regiment Museum, Brecon (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		Hunter, David J. The regiments of Wales : the Welsh Guards, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st), the Monmouthshire Regiment.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/volmil-wales/vinf/mm-2.htm (396 words)

	UWA Museum & Galleries at the School of Art: Exhibition of work by John Roberts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He studied at Cardiff School of Art (1939-42), served with the South Wales Borderers and Indian Signal Corps (1942-47) and then attended the Royal College of Art (1947-51) where he studied printmaking, at first under Robert Austin (etching and engraving) and then Edwin la Dell (lithography).
		He returned to Wales where he taught at Cardiff School of Art (1951-60) and afterwards at Liverpool Polytechnic where he became Head of the Faculty of Art and Design.
		His work is in several public collections; his commissioned etched portraits of 1978 are represented in the National Museum of Wales, and the National Library of Wales holds a small number of his pastel portraits.
	www.aber.ac.uk /museum/exhibitions/johnroberts.shtml (316 words)

	Goodbye by Alun Lewis (listen online mp3) -- ASHING THE PENCIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Wales there are those who think his greater versatility and finer intelligence place him above his contemporaries Dylan Thomas and R.S. Thomas.
		Born and brought up near Aberdare in South Wales, the son of teachers, Lewis read history at Aberystwyth and Manchester.
		Becoming a soldier had a stimulating effect on Lewis's writing: Raiders' Dawn, a collection of forty-seven poems, appeared in 1942 and early in 1943, The Last Inspection, a book of short stories, was published, both to considerable critical acclaim.
	www.voy.com /95470/46.html (1006 words)

	British Empire: Armed Forces: Units: British Infantry: The South Wales Borderers
		The title was chosen because the regiment was based in Brecon and the recruitment area was in the counties bordering England.
		When peace came the wartime battalions were reduced but by 1929 they were officially recognised as the Corps of The South Wales Borderers, incorporating two regular battalions and the three battalions of the Monmouthshire Regiment.
		In 1969, the South Wales Borderers amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot).
	www.britishempire.co.uk /forces/armyunits/britishinfantry/swb.htm (553 words)

	Aylwin Frederick James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		During this time he was a Reserve Soldier with the 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers, based at Bordon, near Aldershot.
		On 16th August 1913 Frederick was a witness with Nora Cumber at the marriage of William Rose to Margaret Povey at the Church of St Peter and St Paul's, Ewhurst.
		Sir Douglas Haig, at that period the Corps Commander, wrote of the battalion:"The conduct of the South Wales Borderers in driving back the strong attack made on them is particularly deserving of praise" and subsequently visited the Battalion in order to thank them personally for saving the situation on the Aisne.
	www.ewhurstfallen.co.uk /Men-research/aylwin/Aylwin_F.htm (861 words)

	blitzbath
		(9) Son of Sgt.Clifford Ford, The South Wales Borderers and Frances Emily Ford.
		Wife of Sgt.Clifford Ford, The South Wales Borderers.
		(7) Son of Sgt.Clifford Ford, The South Wales Borderers and Frances Emily Ford.
	hometown.aol.com /k2m3/blitzbath.html (2461 words)

	Cemetery Commemorative Plaques & Flagholders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The flag was in a generic holder beside the tombstone of a man born in Wales and his wife, born in England.
		The insignia of the South Wales Borderers was inscribed in the tombstone with the Egypt designation in the wreath above the S.W.B. initials.
		There is also a strong USA/Welsh connection WW2, Burma 6th Btn SWB along with others, forming the 36th Division, were under the comamd of Gen. Stilwell.
	www.rootsweb.com /~srgp/flaghold/flag057.htm (353 words)

	The Royal Regiment of Wales
		The South Wales Borderers Museum is located at Brecon in mid-Wales, the Regiment's home for over 120 years.
		Located in Cardiff, the museum commemorates the services of the infantry in South Wales, namely the Welch Regiment (1719-1969) and, more recently, the Royal Regiment of Wales.
		In addition to the services of the regular battalions of the regiment, the museum commemorates the history of the Glamorgan militia, and the auxiliary land forces of South Wales (1757-1969), including the Infantry and Rifle Volunteers and Yeomanry Cavalry.
	www.rrw.org.uk /museums (168 words)

	CSM J H Williams VC - A Welsh Victoria Cross winner
		The most decorated Welsh non-commissioned officer of all time, Company Sergeant Major John (Jack) Henry Williams was born in Nantyglo Monmouthshire in 1886 and, givng up his employment as a colliery flsmith, enlisted in the 10th South Wales Borderers in November 1914.
		At the time of the investiture CSM Williams had not recovered from his severe wounds and during the presentation, the wound in his arm opened up with the result that medical attention had to be given before he could leave the palace.
		A month after his 50th birthday, CSM Williams is presented to Edward VIII during the kings "Something must be done" visit to South Wales in November 1936.
	www.willys-mb.co.uk /vc.htm (386 words)

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