Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Sunday, June 30, 2013, 02:16 (4244 days ago) @ Roger Griffiths

Thanks Roger for mentioning the Royal Monmouthshire R.E. Militia who have long been based at Monmouth Castle. I'm sure you already know this Roger, but it may hopefully interest others to know this venerable Regiment still exists as the most Senior unit of the Territorial Army.
For more current information see
http://www.rfca-wales.org.uk/unit10.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Monmouthshire_Royal_Engineers

Since the C16th the Regiment has been based at Monmouth Castle where a fine Museum and Archive is also housed.
http://www.monmouthcastlemuseum.org.uk/index.html

The Regiment also has this excellent website which includes records of almost 7000 soldiers dating from 1786. These may be searched/browsed free-of-charge to hopefully find ancestors. Most of the pre-WW1 records are quite detailed often giving each man's enlistment details such as appearance, home address, etc. Even if you don't have a specific target soldier the "Quick Search" line allows easy and interesting browsing. For example, entering my home town "Cinderford" gave records for forty men most from the 1880s era, ditto for "Lydbrook", and so on.

http://www.monmouthcastlemuseum-archives.org.uk/regsearch.php