The
Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum is a
museum dedicated to the history of the
Royal Welch Fusiliers, an historic
regiment of the
British Army.
Location
The museum
is located within Caernarfon Castle
in Caernarfon
, Gwynedd
, North Wales
.
The museum
The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum has a collection and displays
containing links to the regiment's 14
Victoria Crosses and the writers and poets
who have served their country when enlisted in the regiment; men
such as
Siegfried Sassoon,
Robert Graves,
Hedd Wyn,
David
Jones and
Frank Richards
and extensive displays relating the long history of the Royal Welch
Fusiliers over the centuries.
The
regiment can trace its history back to 1689 and the campaigns of
William III of England, the
Duke of Marlborough, the
American War of
Independence, the Napoleonic
Wars, the Crimean War, the Boer War, conflict with China, the First World War, Second World War and recent peacekeeping duties
in Bosnia
in 1995
following the Bosnian War.
Now the regiment is part of the
Royal
Welsh, forming the 1st Battalion.
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