Risca Male Choir sang O Iesu Mawr and service personnel from all three armed services in Wales attended, including 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, 3rd Battalion The Royal Welsh, 104 Regiment Royal Artillery,
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers, 53 Signal Squadron and 101 Battalion REME.
Lisa, or Sapper Wride as she is known by her fellow soldiers in the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers, was one of the hundreds of reservists called up to serve in Iraq.
Few of the hundreds of Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers on exercise in Germany are from the Echo circulation area because of recruitment problems.
On Friday, 12 volunteer
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) soldiers from Swansea, Bridgend, Maerdy, Newport and Caerphilly were called up for action in the Gulf.
The troop forming the parading contingent in Mametz Wood were from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh and 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, as well as those from the Reserve units in Wales, including the 104 Regiment Royal Artillery, the 101 Battalion Royal Mechanical Electrical Engineers, Wales University Officer Training Corps, 53 Signal Squadron and the
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers.
Armed with just his name, the fact he served in 1st siege company
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers, and died in France on April 14, 1915, I set about finding out some more.
That to the dead of the
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers Militia in St Mary's, Monmouth also features St George, slaying a dragon(!), alongside "Monmouth's greatest warrior son" Henry V (presented as King of both England and France).
Although Godfrey's active military career was now over, he did serve as a major in the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry, later becoming honorary colonel of the
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers and president of the Monmouth Territorial Force Association.
The
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) - the only remaining militia unit in Britain - exercised their right to march through Monmouth after returning from a six-month operation.
They include: 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards - two tours
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Territorial Army) 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales (now 2nd Battalion, The Royal Welsh) - three tours 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers (now 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh) - two tours 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards Hutton hails British forces in Basra DEFENCE Secretary John Hutton admitted that he did not believe 12 months ago that Basra would be as safe as it is now.
The reservists from the
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers militia left their bases in South Wales and the West Midlands yesterday for a month-long period of special-ist training before their deployment to the Gulf.