Welsh regiment shoulder title

[Holmzey]

Hi just picked this Welsh regiment padded shoulder title .

[Holmzey]

Rear

[Postwarden]

Nice unusual, locally made title.

Could be 1st Bn in Italy or 2nd Bn in India/Burma.

Jon

[Holmzey]

This is from a Burma group I've just picked up 2rd battalion Welsh .

[Home Guard]

Not to steal this thread, but it brings a question to mind. Why the spelling "WELCH" instead of "WELSH"?

Thanks,

Terry

[bobanodised]

The Welch Regiment 1881-1969

Welsh Brigade

Royal Regiment of Wales

Royal Welsh Regiment

[49lassiepen]

1881 -1920 THE WELSH
Post 1920 THE WELCH
Post 1/3/2006 back to Welsh -The ROYAL WELSH

[JerryBB]

very unusual and as already stated, must be locally made whilst abroad

[sapper533]

I have a Royal Engineers one very similar manufacture, but with 'SEAC' below
Regards
Sean

[BROOKIES]

There are also locally made titles for the 1st battalion but are white on black background.

Jonathan

[Postwarden]

Some white on black titles for the 1st Bn Welch Regiment.

Such titles owe their existence to a November 1944 Italian theatre order which gave formation commanders discretion to permit UK troops serving there to wear ‘regimental designations printed on cloth or worsted embroidered’, a decision contrary to the policy in Britain where only printed titles were now officially permitted.

The order noted that there were no official stocks of such items so units which could afford to pay for them simply bought and wore new cloth designations of their own devising, the Welch Regiment’s one such example. It has been suggested that the wire version was worn by officers, the embroidered by ORs

Jon

[41st]

The "C" spelling was preferred by the regiment throughout a large part of the 19thC. It is found on a lot of buttons and shoulder belt plates etc. from that period. It was later used, unofficially, by one or two service battalions in the 1st World War on their cap badges and shoulder titles.
Also in common use by Vols on their helmet plates before 1908.
It is just an historic/archaic way of spelling Welch.