Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Regiment).
Comprising Volume 1 (1689-1815), compiled by A. D. L. Cary and S. McCance 1921, 324pp, with index; Volume III (1914-1918 France and Flanders), compiled by C. H. Dudley Ward 1928, 498pp, with index; and Volume IV (1915-1918 Turkey, Bulgaria, and Austria), compiled by C. H. Dudley Ward 1929, 406pp, with index, all published by Forster Groom, London, black and white images and maps within, all bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering, note Volume II (1816-1914) not present, generally good condition

Historical Record of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
Compiled by Major R. Broughton-Mainwaring, covering the period 1689 to 1889, 372pp, with coloured plates, published by Hatchards, London, 1889, bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering, scuffing to covers, generally good condition

A Short History of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
By Major E. O. Skaife, 69pp, with coloured plates, published by Gale & Polden, London, 1927, bound in blue cloth with red embossed dragon on cover, the inside page inscribed ‘To the Colonel of the Royal Welch from the Author. April 16th 1928’; together with an earlier even shorter history of the Regiment, published in 1913; and a bound set of Regimental Journals from 1933, the inside page inscribed ‘Lt. General Sir Charles Dobell, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Colonel The Royal Welch Fusiliers. A memento of his Visit to the 2nd Battalion in Gibraltar, 27th February 1934 to 12th March 1934.’, good condition (7) £100-£140

Provenance: Ex Libris Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Dobell, Colonel of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.

Sold together with the programme for the Visit of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Caernarvon Castle, 15 July 1937, with two named admittance tickets, named to ‘Lt. Gen. Sir C. Dobell’ and ‘Lady Dobell’; and a separate Luncheon Invitation for the same event.