Editing Royal Welch Fusiliers (section)

====First World War; Regular Army====
The 1st and 2nd battalions served on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] from 1914 to 1918 and took part in some of the hardest fighting of the war, including [[Mametz Wood Memorial|Mametz Wood]] in 1916 and [[Battle of Passchendaele|Passchendaele or Third Ypres]] in 1917.<ref name=James>James, pp. 66–8.</ref><ref name=trail>{{cite web|url=http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/royal-welsh-fusiliers/|title=Royal Welch Fusiliers|publisher=The Long, Long Trail|access-date=3 July 2016}}</ref> Claims in 2008 they participated in the semi-mythical [[Christmas truce|Christmas 1914 Football Game]] with the Germans have since been disproved.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christmastruce.co.uk/frelinghien.html |title=Frelinghien |publisher=Christmas Truce |access-date=3 July 2016 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091228090201/http://www.christmastruce.co.uk/frelinghien.html |archive-date=28 December 2009 }}</ref>

A number of writers fought with the regiment in France and recorded their experiences; [[David Cuthbert Thomas|David Thomas]] (killed 1916), [[Robert Graves]] and [[Siegfried Sassoon]] all served with the 1st Battalion. [[Bernard Adams (writer)|John Bernard Pye Adams]], a captain with the 1st Battalion, was wounded in 1916, and while on medical leave, wrote ''Nothing of Importance'', his recollections of trench life. Adams did not live to see its publication — after returning to the front in January 1917, he died in action a month later.<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.beckenhamhistory.co.uk/world-war-one-archive/item/7-adams-john-bernard-pye | title =Adams, John Bernard Pye | website =Beckenham History | access-date =2022-05-03}}</ref> His book, published a few months after his death, was the only memoir of trench experiences published in Great Britain during the war<ref name=cas>{{cite web | url =http://www.stanwardine.com/cgi-bin/malvernww1.pl?id=2Adams | title =Captain John Bernard Pye Adams  | website =Malvern College First World War Casualty  | access-date =2022-05-03}}</ref> and was well received by both ''[[The Times]]'' and the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]''.<ref name=malvernian>{{cite journal | title =Nothing of Importance by Bernard Adams | journal =The Malvernian | issue =364 | pages =572 | publisher =[[Malvern College]] | date =November 1917 | url =https://www.malverniansocietyarchives.co.uk/Filename.ashx?systemFileName=Malvernian1917_0364.pdf&origFilename=Malvernian1917_0364.pdf | access-date = 2022-05-03}}</ref>

[[J. C. Dunn|J C Dunn]], a medical officer with the 2nd Battalion who had also served in the [[Second Boer War|1899–1902 Boer War]], published ''The War the Infantry Knew'' in 1931. A collection of letters and diary entries from over 50 individuals, it is considered a classic by military historians for its treatment of daily life and death in the trenches.<ref>{{cite web |title=The War the Infantry Knew: 1914–1919, by Captain J.C. Dunn |url=https://www.educationumbrella.com/curriculum-vital/book-review-the-war-the-infantry-knew-by-captain-jc-dunn |website=Educationumbrella |access-date=16 July 2019}}</ref>

''[[Good-Bye to All That]]'' by Robert Graves was first published in 1929 and has never been out of print; in one anecdote, he records the Regimental Goat Major being charged with 'prostituting the Royal Goat' in return for a [[Stud (animal)|stud fee]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Graves |first1=Robert |title=Goodbye to All That |date=1929 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0141184593 |page=71}}</ref> Graves also edited ''Old Soldiers Never Die'', published in 1933; a rare example of the war seen by an ordinary soldier, it was written by [[Francis Philip Woodruff|Frank Richards]], a pre-war regular recalled in 1914, who served on the Western Front until the end of the war.<ref>{{cite book|last=Richards|first=Frank|title=Old Soldiers Never Die|publisher=Naval & Military Press|date=2001|isbn=978-1843420262}}</ref> The poets [[David Jones (artist-poet)|David Jones]] and [[Hedd Wyn]], killed at Passchendaele in 1917, were members of Kitchener battalions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/article/1920/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090820074913/http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/article/1920/|archive-date=2009-08-20|title=Welsh bard falls in the battle fields of Flanders |publisher=Museumwales.ac.uk |date=2007-04-25 |access-date=2014-05-19}}</ref>

[[File:Hedd Wyn Grave at Artillery Wood Cemetery 7.jpg|thumb|upright|left|150px|The grave of Welsh poet [[Hedd Wyn]], killed at Passchendaele in 1917]]