Welsh regiments

[Mickytom]

Hi

Apologies if this is a very basic question, and one which may well have been covered elsewhere, but could anyone tell me which regiments would have recruited principally from the counties of Brecon, Radnor and Monmouthshire? South Wales Borderers? I'm thinking of WWI in the first instance, but have been notified of a distant ancestor who is detailed as a soldier on one of the Radnorshire censuses for the mid-C19.

Mike 

[manchester regt]

micky,it would be any of the welsh regts,in particular the welsh regt,and one of the cheshire battalions,what was his name,mack

[Mickytom]

Hi

Thanks for that. The more distant ancestor I know of was a Thomas EVANS, who is detailed as aged 25 and as being a soldier on the 1851 Radnorshire census.

My grandfather, Alfred Ernest THOMAS, and great uncle, Theophilus Powell THOMAS, were also born in Radnorshire in 1886 and 1880 respectively, so would have been of an age to have served in WWI.

Mike

[neil1821]

Looking at the MICs, there is a Private Theophilus Thomas in the Monmouthshire Regiment and another in the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry.

Then looking at Alfred, the more common name, there are certainly candidates in these two regiments again.

Neil

[Wendi]

Hi Mike

Your post has kinda got 3 questions in one, but I wondered if Alfred Ernest THOMAS, Theophilus Powell were known to survive World War One?

Wendi

[Mickytom]

Wendi

Yup! Grandad Alfred Ernest died in 1933. Don't know when Theo died, but according to my Dad he lived on into his eighties (apparently still riding his motorbike!), so that would mean he died some time in the early 1960s.

Neil

Not done any military research as yet (but plenty of other stuff!), so how would I go about finding out if either of the Theophilus Thomases you quote were, in fact, my uncle Theo? National Archives? Or is there an alternative route?

Mike