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- The Swansea Rifles, later the 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion of the Welch Regiment, was a Volunteer unit of the British Army from 1859 to 1954. It fought on the Western Front in the First World War. As a searchlight unit in the Second World War it defended South Wales against air raids. It continued in the postwar Territorial Army (TA) as a heavy anti-aircraft artillery regiment until amalgamated with other Welsh units in 1954. (en)
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- *First World War:
**Hohenzollern Redoubt
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*Second World War:
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- Christchurch , Oystermouth Road (en)
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- Better death than shame (en)
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- 'Dilwyn's' (en)
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- The Swansea Rifles, later the 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion of the Welch Regiment, was a Volunteer unit of the British Army from 1859 to 1954. It fought on the Western Front in the First World War. As a searchlight unit in the Second World War it defended South Wales against air raids. It continued in the postwar Territorial Army (TA) as a heavy anti-aircraft artillery regiment until amalgamated with other Welsh units in 1954. (en)
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- 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion, Welch Regiment (en)
- 3rd (Swansea Rifles) Glamorganshire RVC (en)
- 602 (Welch) HAA Regiment, RA (en)
- 67th (Welch) Searchlight Regiment, RA (en)
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- 'The Prince of Wales's Own' (en)
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