Nick Lock, OBE, Chair of The Management Committee of the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum in Wales* recently took a group to Gallipoli.
Nick very kindly purchased a poppy cross in order to remember Arthur Walderne St. Calair Tisdall, VC (1890 – 1915). My grateful thanks to Nic.
*Cyrnol (wedi ymddeol) / Colonel (Retd) Nick Lock OBE
Cadeirydd y Pwyllgor Rheoli / Chair of The Management Committee
Amgueddfa'r Ffiwsilwyr Brenhinol Cymreig / The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum, Castell Caernarfon / Caernarfon Castle
https://forgottenpoets ofww1.blogspot.com/2021/09/arthur-walderne-st-clair-tisdall-vc.html
Photographs taken by Nick in Gallipoli, May 2023:
*The Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum
The Castle,
Caernarfon,
Gwynedd,
North Wales,
LL55 2AY
The Royal Welch Fusiliers (In Welsh: Ffiwsilwyr Brenhinol Cymreig) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army and part of the Prince of Wales' Division, founded in 1689 shortly after the Glorious Revolution. In 1702, it was designated a fusilier regiment and became The Welch Regiment of Fusiliers; the prefix "Royal" was added in 1713, then confirmed in 1714 when George I named it The Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers. After the 1751 reforms that standardised the naming and numbering of regiments, it became the 23rd Foot (Royal Welsh Fuzileers).
The Regiment retained the archaic spelling of Welch, instead of Welsh, and Fuzileers for Fusiliers; these were engraved on swords carried by regimental officers during the Napoleonic Wars. After the 1881 Childers Reforms, its official title was The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, but "Welch" continued to be used informally until restored in 1920 by Army Order No.56.
From Jonathon Riley: http://generalship.org/military-history-articles/llewellyn-wyn-griffith.html
