South Wales Borderers
24th Regiment of Foot 24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot South Wales Borderers | |
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Rorke's Drift (22 January) | |
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Ceremonial chief | King Edward VIII |
The South Wales Borderers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for 280 years.
It came into existence in England in 1689, as Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot, and afterwards had a variety of names and headquarters. In 1782, it became the 24th Regiment of Foot, and had its depot in Warwickshire.
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History
Early history
The regiment was formed by Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet as Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot in 1689, becoming known, like other regiments, by the names of its subsequent colonels.[1] The regiment served under the Duke of Schomberg during the Williamite War in Ireland and then saw action again at the Battle of Schellenberg in July 1704 and at the Battle of Blenheim in August 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession.[2]
The regiment was part of the amphibious expedition to the
In June 1776 the regiment was sent to
The regiment was deployed to Egypt in the aftermath of the Battle of Abukir in March 1801; a 2nd Battalion was raised in 1804 which suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Talavera in July 1809 during the Peninsular War.[2] The regiment was involved in the 1806 invasion of the Cape Colony where it saw action at the Battle of Blaauwberg.[6] The vast majority of the 1st Battalion was captured at sea by the French at the action of 3 July 1810 near the Comoro Islands; they had been on the East Indiamen Astell, Ceylon and Windham when a French frigate squadron captured the last two ships. They were released the following year.[7] The 1st Battalion took part in the Anglo-Nepalese War in November 1814.[8] The regiment was deployed to Canada in 1829 and remained there until 1842.[3]
Second Sikh War and Indian Mutiny
The regiment returned to
Zulu War
Isandlwana
In 1879 both battalions took part in the
A Zulu force of some 20,000 warriors attacked a portion of the British main column consisting of about 1,800 British, colonial and native troops and perhaps 400 civilians.[10] During the battle Lieutenant-Colonel Pulleine ordered Lieutenants Coghill and Melvill to save the Queen's Colour—the Regimental Colour was located at Helpmekaar with G Company. The two Lieutenants attempted to escape by crossing the Buffalo River where the Colour fell and was lost downstream, later being recovered. Both officers were killed. At this time the Victoria Cross (VC) was not awarded posthumously. This changed in the early 1900s when both Lieutenants were awarded posthumous Victoria Crosses for their bravery.[11] The Battle of Isandlwana was dramatized in the 1979 movie Zulu Dawn.[12]
Rorke's Drift
After the battle of Isandlwana, some 4,000 to 5,000 Zulus headed for
The Zulus first attacked at 4:30 pm. Throughout the day the garrison was attacked from all sides, including rifle fire from the heights above the garrison, and bitter hand-to-hand fighting often ensued. At one point the Zulus entered the hospital, which was stoutly defended by the wounded inside until it was set alight and eventually burnt down. The battle raged on into the early hours of 23 January but by dawn the Zulu Army had withdrawn. Lord Chelmsford and a column of British troops arrived soon afterwards. The garrison had suffered 15 killed during the battle (two died later) and 11 defenders were awarded the Victoria Cross for their distinguished defence of the post, seven going to soldiers of the 24th Foot.[14] The stand at Rorke's Drift was immortalised in the 1964 movie Zulu.[15]
Childers Reforms
The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the
The 1st battalion was stationed in Egypt from 1892,[20] then moved to British India. The battalion had various postings, including at Peshawar until late 1902 when it was posted to Mian Mir outside Lahore.[21]
The 2nd Battalion was deployed to Burma and saw action in November 1885 during the Third Anglo-Burmese War.[22]
Second Boer War
2nd Battalion arrived in
The 3rd (Militia) Battalion was embodied in January 1900, and the following month embarked for service in South Africa, arriving in Cape Town on the SS Cheshire in early March 1900.[26] The 4th (Militia) Battalion was embodied for garrison duty at home.[27]
Haldane Reforms
In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally (the
First World War
Regular Army
The 1st Battalion landed at
Special Reserve
The 3rd (Reserve) Battalion served at Pembroke Dock and later at Hightown, near Liverpool in home defence while supplying thousands of reinforcements for the regular battalions overseas.[30]
Territorial Force
The 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion sailed to India attached to the 44th (Home Counties) Division in October 1914. After arriving at Bombay in December it immediately moved to Aden. After seeing action at the Battle of Lahej in July 1915 it returned to Bombay. It remained in garrison at Mhow until October 1919, supplying reinforcement drafts to the 4th (Service) Bn, SWB, in Mesopotamia and to the units involved in the Third Anglo-Afghan War.[30][31][32]
2/1st and 3/1st Brecknockshire Battalions were formed in September 1914 and April 1915 respectively to provide TF reinforcements. Both were absorbed into other Welsh reserve units as the war progressed.[29][30]
New Armies
The 4th (Service) Battalion was formed at Brecon in August 1914 as part of Kitchener's 1st Army ('K1'). It landed in Gallipoli as part of the 40th Brigade in the 13th (Western) Division on 15 July 1915; it was evacuated from Gallipoli in January 1916 and moved to Egypt and then to Mesopotamia.[17][30][31] The 5th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), formed as a K2 unit in September 1914, landed at Le Havre as part of the 58th Brigade in the 19th (Western) Division in July 1915 for service on the Western Front.[17][30][31] The 6th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), a K3 unit formed in September 1914, landed at Le Havre as part of the 76th Brigade in the 25th Division in September 1915 for service on the Western Front.[17][30][31] The 7th (Service) Battalion and the 8th (Service) Battalion, both formed as K3 units in September 1914, landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 67th Brigade in the 22nd Division in September 1915 for service on the Western Front but moved to Salonika in October 1915.[17][30][31]
The 9th (Service) Battalion was formed in K4 at Pembroke Dock alongside 3rd (Reserve) Bn at the end of October 1914, but was then converted into the 9th (Reserve) Battalion to supply reinforcements to the 4th–8th (Service) Bns.[17][30][31]
The 10th (Service) Battalion (1st Gwent), 11th (Service) Battalion (2nd Gwent) and 12th (Service) Battalion (3rd Gwent) were raised by the Welsh National Executive Committee as K5 or '
Also formed were the 13th and 14th (Reserve) Battalions in 1915, the shortlived 15th (Service) Battalion in June 1918, and the 52nd and 53rd (Graduated) and 54th (Young Soldier) Battalions, which were all training units.[17][30][31]
Inter-War
The 1st Battalion embarked for Ireland in June 1920 to maintain order during the Irish War of Independence. The 1st Battalion was in County Meath from September 1920 to February 1922, deployed at Dunshaughlin.[34] Company-sized detachments would also serve in the nearby settlements of Navan, Nobber, Kells and Oldcastle, County Meath.[35] Having arrived on the Indian subcontinent in 1934, it was sent to Waziristan in February 1937 in connection with disturbances on the frontier.[36]
Meanwhile, the 2nd Battalion was sent overseas to Barrackpore in India in 1919, being present in Jhansi in 1921,[37] redeploying to Delhi in 1925, Aden in 1927 then returning to garrison Portsmouth in February 1929.[38] The 2nd Battalion's next tour of duty overseas was Malta in September 1935, followed by Palestine in 1936, returning home at the end of the year.[39]
Second World War
1st Battalion
The 1st Battalion, as part of the 10th Indian Infantry Division, was sent to Iraq to quell a German-inspired uprising in Iraq in November 1941.[40] The battalion saw subsequent service in Iran. The battalion sustained enormous casualties in Libya near Tobruk when they lost around 500 officers and men captured or killed during a general retreat.[40] The battalion found itself cut off when the German forces outflanked them, the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Matthews, decided to attempt to escape around the enemy and break through to British lines. It turned into a disaster with only four officers and around one hundred men reaching Sollum.[40] To the surprise of the survivors the battalion was ordered to disband in Cyprus and the remnants of the battalion were transferred, with the exception of a small cadre that returned to the United Kingdom, to the 1st Battalion of the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). A few months later the battalion was re-formed from the cadre and the 4th Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment.[40]
2nd Battalion
Upon the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, the 2nd Battalion was serving in
The 2nd Battalion returned to the United Kingdom and, on 7 December 1941 (the day the United States entered the war), transferred to the
6th Battalion
The 6th Battalion, South Wales Borders served in the
7th Battalion
This was formed in May 1940 as 50th Holding Battalion, South Wales Borderers, becoming a normal infantry unit on 9 October as 7th Battalion.
Post-War
The 1st Battalion was deployed to Palestine to deal with the volatile uprising in Palestine there in October 1945 and then moved to Cyprus in April 1946.[49] The 2nd Battalion was disbanded in May 1948 as a consequence of defence cuts implemented shortly after the Second World War.[49]
The regiment deployed to the Sudan in March 1949 and became part of the occupation force in Eritrea, a former Italian colony that was ruled by a British military administration, in January 1950.[49] The regiment arrived in Brunswick, West Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine in January 1953 and was then deployed to Malaya in December 1955, as part of the response to the Malayan Emergency.[49] The regiment's conduct during the war compelled Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, a distinguished British officer and a man instrumental in the defeat of the communist terrorists during the Emergency, to state that, "there has been no better regiment in Malaya during the ten years of the emergency and very few as good".[50]
The regiment was posted to Minden, Germany in June 1959 and returned home three years later.[49] It arrived at Stanley Fort in Hong Kong in November 1963 to perform internal security duties.[49] It returned home to Lydd in Kent in June 1966 before deploying to Aden in January 1967.[49]
The regiment was amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) in June 1969.[49]
Regimental museum
The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh (Brecon) is at The Barracks, Brecon, South Wales.[51]
Battle honours
The regiment's battle honours were as follows:[1]
- Early wars: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, [Egypt]1, Cape of Good Hope 1806, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Peninsula, Chillianwallah, Goojerat, Punjaub, South Africa 1877-8-9, Burma 1885–87, South Africa 1900-02
- The Great War: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, Ypres 1914 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917, Messines 1917 '18, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915–18, Helles, Landing at Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Sari Bair, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915–16, Egypt 1916, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916–18, Tsingtao
- The Second World War: Norway 1940, Normandy Landing, Sully, Caen, Falaise, Risle Crossing, Le Havre, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, Scheldt, Zetten, Arnhem 1945, North-West Europe 1944–45, Gazala, North Africa 1942, North Arakan, Mayu Tunnels, Pinwe, Shweli, Myitson, Burma 1944-45
Uniforms
As the 24th Foot the regiment wore first "willow green" and later "grass green"
Victoria Cross recipients
- Corporal William Wilson Allen(2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Private David Bell (2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Lieutenant Edward Stevenson Browne (1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Burges (7th (Service) Battalion, South Wales Borderers)
- Lieutenant Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill(1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead (2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Temporary Captain Angus Buchanan (4th (Service) Battalion, South Wales Borderers)
- Private James Cooper (2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Assistant Surgeon Campbell Mellis Douglas (2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Lieutenant Edric Frederick, The Lord Gifford(2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Private James Henry Fynn(4th (Service) Battalion, South Wales Borderers)
- Private William Griffiths (2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Private Frederick Hitch (2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Private Alfred Henry Hook(2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Acting Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Graham Johnson (2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers)
- Private Robert Jones (2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Private William Jones (2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Lieutenant Teignmouth Melvill (1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Private Thomas Murphy (2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
- Sergeant Ivor Rees (11th (Service) Battalion (1st Gwent), South Wales Borderers)
- Sergeant Albert White (2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers)
- Company Sergeant-Major John (Jack) Henry Williams(10th (Service) Battalion (1st Gwent), South Wales Borderers)
- Private John Williams (2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot)
Colonels of the Regiment
The colonels of the regiment were as follows:[54]
- 1689: Col Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet
- 1689–1691: Col Daniel Dering
- 1691–1695: Col Samuel Venner
- 1695–1701: Col Louis James le Vasseur, Marquis de Puisar
- 1701–1702: Lt-Gen William Seymour
- 1702–1704: Gen John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough KG
- 1704–1708: Lt-Gen William Tatton
- 1708–1717: Major-Gen Gilbert Primrose
- 1717–1737: Lt-Gen Thomas Howard
- 1737–1745: Lt-Gen Thomas Wentworth
- 1745–1747: Brig-Gen Daniel Houghton
- 1747–1752: Gen The Earl of Ancram
The 24th Regiment of Foot
- 1752–1776: Lt-Gen Hon. Edward Cornwallis
24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
- 1776–1793: Lt-Gen William Taylor
- 1793–1807: Gen Richard Whyte
- 1807–1829: Gen Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet GCB KC
- 1829–1842: Lt-Gen Sir James Frederick Lyon KCB GCH
- 1842–1856: Gen Robert Ellice
- 1856–1861: Lt-Gen Hon. John Finch CB
- 1861–1884: Gen Pringle Taylor KH
The South Wales Borderers
- 1884–1888: Gen. Sir Charles Henry Ellice, GCB
- 1888–1898: Gen. Edmund Wodehouse
- 1898–1900: Lt-Gen. Richard Thomas Glyn, CB, CMG
- 1900–1902: Maj-Gen. Henry James Degacher, CB
- 1902–1922: Maj-Gen. George Paton, CMG[55]
- 1922–1931: Gen. Sir Alexander Stanhope Cobbe, VC, GCB, KCSI, DSO
- 1931–1944: Maj-Gen. Llewellyn Isaac Gethin Morgan-Owen, CB, CMG, CBE, DSO
- 1944–1950: Maj-Gen. Dudley Graham Johnson, VC, CB, DSO, MC
- 1950–1954: Gen. Sir Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen, KCSI, CB, OBE, MC
- 1954–1961: Maj-Gen. Francis Raymond Gage Matthews, CB, DSO
- 1961–1969: Maj-Gen. Sir David Peel Yates, DSO, OBE
Alliances
- 18th Battalion (The Kurung-Gai Regiment) (1929–1944)
- 17th/18th Infantry Battalion (The North Shore Regiment) (1948–1960)
- 24th Battalion (The Kooyong Regiment) (1929–1951)
- / 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian African Rifles (1957–1965)
See also
- Charles Ancliffe
- List of battalions of the South Wales Borderers
- Gonville Bromhead (Fought in the 24th regiment of foot, a progenitor of the Welsh Borderers)
- Battle of Rorkes Drift
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Further reading
- Adams, Jack (1968). Famous Regiments: The South Wales Borderers. Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 978-0241913888.