Nine typescript volumes compiled by Meirion Ellis, principally relating to the activities of the Welsh Guards during the Second World ...,

Nine typescript volumes compiled by Meirion Ellis, principally relating to the activities of the Welsh Guards during the Second World War. The material primarily derives from personal recollection, the regimental war diaries and published sources. The volumes comprise a transcript of the Roll of Honour, including an index of cemeteries, 1939-1945 (NLW ex 1574); an account of the 1st Battalion's war in Europe, 1944-1945 (NLW ex 1575); an account of the 1st Battalion's actions in Palestine, 1945-1948; (NLW ex 1576); an account of the 2nd Battalion's battle in Normandy, entitled 'Armoured reconnaissance', June 1944-May 1945 (NLW ex 1577); an account of the formation and training of the 2nd Battalion, 1939-1945 (NLW ex 1578); a volume entitled 'The little iron men', being a personal history of Meirion Ellis, and his part in the war as a soldier in 3 Company, 1st Battalion (NLW ex 1579); a volume of anecdotes, principally derived from the archives of the Welsh Regiment of Foot Guards, 1939-1945 (NLW ex 1580); a volume entitled 'Honour and glory', being an account of the heroic actions, during the Second World War, of Lt the Hon. C. Furness, Major J. C. Windsor Lewis, Sir Richard Powell, Major A. H. S. Coombe-Tennant, Capt. Hamish Stewart Forbes, Lt D. C. M. Mather and Lt J. S. Lewes (NLW ex 1581); and a volume of citations of those officers and other ranks, serving in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions, who were honoured between 1939 and 1945 (NLW ex 1582).

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Preferred citation: NLW ex 1574-1582.

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