British Military South Wales Borderers Overseas Helmet RARE
South Wales Borderers Overseas Sun Hat/Helmet, with brass
chin scales. Size 7 1/8in excellent conditions. Brass spike and
brass helmet plate. You wont find many of these around
today, so grab a bargain. Any questions just ask.
The South Wales Borderers was a line of an infantry regiment of
the British Army in existence for 280 years. It first came into
existence, as the 24th Regiment of Foot in 1689. Based at
Brecon the regiment recruited from the border counties of
Monmouthshire, Herefordshire and Brecknockshire, but was
not called the South Wales Borderers until the Childers
Reforms of 1881. The regiment served in a great many
conflicts, including the American Revolutionary War,
various conflicts in India, the Zulu War, Second Boer War, and
World War I and World War II. In 1969 the regiment was
amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form the Royal
Regiment of Wales.