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The Royal Welsh Museum @RW_Museum

Our museum tells the long and proud story of the regiment of The Royal Welsh with over 300 years of history. Check out our website for more information! linktr.ee/royalwelshmuse… Brecon, Powys Joined November 2019
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16 hours ago

#FlashbackFriday to not being properly dressed without your spurs! These field spurs belonged to Lt Coghill VC, Ist Bn, 24th of Foot. Coghill, along with Lt Melvill VC, was killed while trying to save the Queen’s Colour at the battle of Isandlwana on Jan 22 1879.

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3 days ago

Welsh language bible dating from #WW1 presented to Watkin Morgan Watkins when he joined the Brecknock Battalion, SWB, in Feb 1916. The message inside reads: “This bible is presented to you on joining the British Army by Bryn Seion Chapel, Abercrave, with very warm wishes..."

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4 days ago

#TriviaTuesday – confiscated from a communist terrorist in Malaya, in 1956, this is a homemade compass. This handy tool fitted into the end of a torch and was brought back to the UK by a soldier of the South Wales Borderers. #history #collection

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a week ago

#FridayFind – here's a pom-pom shell, mounted on a miniature gun carriage, from the Boer War (1899-1901). 7562 Pte W J Davies, of the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, found the shell at the Battle for Ladysmith. He later made the little carriage to display it on.

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a week ago

We are holding a bonus Curator #Coffee Morning on Wednesday 1st May, 10am, where you can discover all things #Zulu! Here’s a glimpse of one exciting artefact, not usually on display, that we will have on show - don’t miss out!

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a week ago

#WeaponWednesday this is the time fuse shrapnel of the first shell fired by the Germans on the 2nd Bn, the South Wales Borderers at Tsingtao, China, on the outbreak of #WW1 in September 1914.

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2 weeks ago

#Worldbookday - Rorke’s Drift bible gifted to each Defender. This bible belonged to 1186 Pte Samuel Pitt from Monmouthshire. He said of the #Zulus: “we pounded away at them, raining bullets amongst them, but on they came not fearing death." Pte Pitt died in 1926, aged 71.

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2 weeks ago

#VolunteerRecognitionDay - we're saying a huge thank you to our amazing volunteers, without whom we would struggle to keep the museum going! If you’d like to join our team, get in touch. In the meantime, here’s a photograph of officers of the 1st (Volunteer) Bn, Mons Reg in 1910.

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2 weeks ago

#FlashbackFriday to the final months of #WW1. This flag was found on the body of a dead signaller of the 8th Bn, SWB, at Pip Ridge, Sept 1918. The Bn were part of an unsuccessful British/Greek assault on a Bulgarian stronghold in North Macedonia (modern-day Greece).

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2 weeks ago

#onlineartexchange image from the sketchbook of Lt Coghill VC, drawn ‘on location’ as he travelled with the 24th Regiment to South Africa. Killed trying to save the Queen’s Colour at the Battle of Isandlwana 22/1/1879. His #VC will go on display this summer – watch this space!

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2 weeks ago

#WeaponWednesday this Malayan Parang, used traditionally for cutting through dense jungle, was presented to Corporal Gwyn Harris MM during the Malayan emergency, 1955-58, by a Sarawak Ranger - one of four Iban members of the South Wales Borderers’ tracking team.

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3 weeks ago

Here we have a Prussian Guard Pickelhaube (meaning ‘pointed hat’) helmet from #WW1. Made from black leather, it has a brass Prussian Guard helmet plate and spike on it and was found at Ypres in April 1915.

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3 weeks ago

Here’s a vibrant and colourful painting from our collection for #WorldArtDay. Wales-based artist Robert Macdonald was inspired to paint ‘Dancing Zulus’ after seeing Zulus performing during a visit to Brecon in 2017. #art #painting #localart #artist #artappreciation #history

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3 weeks ago

#FridayFind - here’s a 24th of Foot shako hat plate found on the battlefield at Isandlwana. The plate’s crown, usually sitting on top of the wreath, has been broken off. It is highly unlikely its original owner survived the battle, which took place on January 22nd, 1879.

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3 weeks ago

Happy #NationalPetDay! Here's Taffy, the mascot of the 2nd Bn, Welsh Regiment, 1899. The Ruler of Tirah, in modern-day Pakistan, gifted him to the battalion after their goat died. He was the largest to serve the regiment - his handler was known to be well over six feet tall!

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3 weeks ago

We have just one more day to help with fundraising for our Zulu Festival! July 2024 - 30 Zulu travelling to Brecon to take part in Music, Dancing, Singing, Theatrical Performances & Heritage &Sports Day. We really appreciate any support you can give! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-zulu-fes…

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3 weeks ago

#Blackandwhitewednesday – portrait of Pte John Evans, 10th Bn, SWB. On the back reads: “The SWB perhaps have caught the trick of modesty...which is so extraordinarily inarticulate in its own praise, no troops who talk less and work more gallantly than they.” Daily News, 14/9/16

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4 weeks ago

#OTD 1916, Mesopotamia, 2nd Lt Edgar Kinghorn Myles, 8th Bn, Welsh Reg, went out in front of British advanced trenches to assist wounded men on the battlefield. Under heavy rifle fire, and at great personal risk, he carried in a wounded officer to safety. He received the VC. #WW1

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4 weeks ago

#OTD, 1916, Capt Angus Buchanan, 4th Bn, SWB, was awarded the VC in Mesopotamia. He had already been awarded the Military Cross in Jan 1916 at Gallipoli. On 13th Feb 1917, he was shot in the head, leaving him blind. He died on March 1st, 1944, as the result of old wounds. #WW1

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4 weeks ago

#ThrowbackThursday to a victorious football tournament! Here’s a photograph of the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers’ football team posing with their silverware! The name of the cup is sadly unclear, but the games were played in Legong, West Bengal, India in 1924. #armyhistory

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