Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum

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The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum is a museum dedicated to the history of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, a historic regiment of the British Army. The museum is located within Caernarfon Castle in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, North Wales. Admission is included with entry to the castle.The museumThe Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum has a collection and displays containing links to the regiment's fourteen Victoria Crosses and the writers and poets who have served their country when enlisted in the regiment; men such as Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Hedd Wyn, David Jones and Frank Richards and extensive displays relating the long history of the Royal Welch Fusiliers over the centuries.The regiment can trace its history back to 1689 and the campaigns of William III of England, the Duke of Marlborough, the American War of Independence, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the Boer War, conflict with China, the First World War, Second World War and recent peacekeeping duties in Bosnia in 1995 following the Bosnian War.