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Saint David's Day
The Royal Welch Fusiliers do
not celebrate battle honours but the national day of Wales, St
David's Day (1st of March) is celebrated wherever there are
Royal Welch Fusiliers. In Battalions the ceremony 'Eating the
Leek' is observed by the youngest soldier in each company, and
by newly-joined officers and guests at dinner in the Officers'
Mess, whilst drummers and fifers, led by the Regimental Goat,
march round the table.
It is only on St David's Day
that the Loyal Toast is drunk. Shortly after the 1797 Nore
Mutiny when dining with the Regiment, King George IV expressed
his wish that the Loyal Toast should be dispensed with as 'the
loyalty of the Royal Welch is never in doubt'
1st March 1775: "This being St.
David's Day, the Officers of the 23rd Regiment, or Royal
Welch Fusiliers, dined together according to the Custom.
All the General & Staff Officers, The Admiral, and several
other persons were invited to dine with the Regiment..."
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