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Founded in 1689, the 24th Regiment of Foot was a British infantry regiment which recruited primarily from the counties of Monmouthshire, Herefordshire and Brecknockshire. The regiment would participate in many conflicts including the Second Boer War, the American Revolutionary War, the First and Second World Wars, and the Second Anglo-Sikh War; however, perhaps their most well-known engagements were during the Anglo-Zulu War. Twelve companies (six each from the 1st and 2nd Battalions) of the 24th Foot were part of the British force destroyed at the Battle of Isandlwana. More fortunate were the men of B Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Foot in their engagement with the Zulu forces. Numbering ~140 men, these soldiers, under the command of Lt. Gonville Bromhead as well as Lt. John Chard of the Royal Engineers, successfully defeated an assault and siege by a 3,000-4,000 strong Zulu force.
The 24th Regiment of Foot would be renamed as the South Wales Borderers in 1881 and then amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales in 1969.
The rifle carried by the Welsh infantryman is the Martini-Henry, a single-shot rifle firing a .577/450 cartridge. It replaced the Snider rifle, an Enfield percussion rifle converted to fire metallic cartridges. The Martini-Henry would eventually be replaced with the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield rifles which provided better ballistic performance and a greater rate of fire than the old single-shot weapon.
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