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The Royal Regiment of Wales (7267 words) |
 | The 38th Division was sent in again from 17th-23rd August to hold trenches by Langemarck, which had been captured by the 20th Division and where the 2nd Battalion had so greatly distinguished themselves in 1914. |
| In the 38th Division the 10th and 16th Welch were broken up and their men transferred to strengthen the four remaining Welch Battalions in the Division, while the 17th Welch was amalgamated into the 18th Welch. |
| The 38th Division were holding the line at Albert and to the north of it and the first task of the 114th (Welch) Brigade was to cross the River Ancre, a tributary of the River Somme, which they did gallantly on the night of the 21stAugust. |
| Fact Sheet of the 38th Infantry Division (946 words) |
| The division was overseas for six months, but during that period it was skeletonized and its personnel were sent to other units. |
| On 9 March 1942, the 38th came under the control of the Army Ground Forces and was assigned to the IV Corps of the Third Army at Camp Shelby. |
| While one division regimental combat team made an amphibious landing at Mariveles, on the tip of the Peninsula, another force struck swiftly down the east coast through Balanga, Pilar and across the neck of land to Bagac the March of Death route – - to gain control of the entire peninsula. |
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