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Save the Welsh Cavalry campaign 23 May 2012
‘Save The Welsh Cavalry’ Campaign Launch
Jessica joined with Owen Smith MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, and other Welsh Labour MPs, today to launch ‘Save The Welsh Cavalry’, a campaign to protect Welsh military heritage.
As part of the imminent Government announcement on Army spending cuts, it is reported that 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards, otherwise known as The Welsh cavalry, is set to be decommissioned as a separate regiment, resulting in the loss of one of the three last remaining Welsh ‘Cap Badges’ in the British Army.*
*1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) is the Cavalry Regiment of Wales and the Border Counties (Shropshire, Herefordshire and Cheshire). It is the senior Regiment of the Line in the British Army and has 324 years of distinguished history. It is one of the most operationally experienced Regiments in the Army having seen action as the reconnaissance force during the First Gulf War in 1990/91, the Second Gulf War in 2003 and in Afghanistan in 2008/09.
Serving soldiers in the Welsh Cavalry are today being presented with their campaign medals after their recent tour of duty to Afghanistan and will be welcomed back to Wales in homecoming parades to be held in Swansea and Cardiff on the 30th May and 2nd June respectively.
The other remaining Welsh Cap Badge Regiments are the The Royal Welsh Regiment (1st and 2nd Battalions) and the Welsh Guards.
Jessica joined with Owen Smith MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, and other Welsh Labour MPs, today to launch ‘Save The Welsh Cavalry’, a campaign to protect Welsh military heritage.
As part of the imminent Government announcement on Army spending cuts, it is reported that 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards, otherwise known as The Welsh cavalry, is set to be decommissioned as a separate regiment, resulting in the loss of one of the three last remaining Welsh ‘Cap Badges’ in the British Army.*
*1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) is the Cavalry Regiment of Wales and the Border Counties (Shropshire, Herefordshire and Cheshire). It is the senior Regiment of the Line in the British Army and has 324 years of distinguished history. It is one of the most operationally experienced Regiments in the Army having seen action as the reconnaissance force during the First Gulf War in 1990/91, the Second Gulf War in 2003 and in Afghanistan in 2008/09.
Serving soldiers in the Welsh Cavalry are today being presented with their campaign medals after their recent tour of duty to Afghanistan and will be welcomed back to Wales in homecoming parades to be held in Swansea and Cardiff on the 30th May and 2nd June respectively.
The other remaining Welsh Cap Badge Regiments are the The Royal Welsh Regiment (1st and 2nd Battalions) and the Welsh Guards.