to infantry as 7th Battalion 1940 1st Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers (TA) – formed as duplicate of 3rd Battalion Monmouths 1939 Monmouthshire Regiment 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment (TA) – served with 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division in North West Europe 3rd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment (TA) – served with 11th Armoured Division in North West Europe 4th Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment (TA) – formed as duplicate of 2nd Battalion 1939; joined by cadre of 19 men from Cyprus and redesignated as 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers served in UK for remainder of war Postwar After postwar disbandments the regiment had the following battalions: 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers – amalgamated with 1st Battalion Welch Regiment to form Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) in 1969 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers – disbanded in 1948 Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers – converted into 638th (Brecknock) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1947 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment – became the Monmouthshire Battalion (Territorial) South Wales Borderers in the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve in 1967; became part of the Welsh Volunteers 1969 3rd (Brecknock & Monmouthshire) Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment – converted into 637th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (3rd Bn The Monmouthshire Regiment) in 1947 Notes References Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 1: The Regular British Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1934/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-38-X. Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2a: The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42–56), London: HM Stationery Office, 1935/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-39-8. Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home-Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-39-8. Col John K. Dunlop, The Development of the British Army 1899–1914, London: Methuen, 1938. J.B.M. Frederick, Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978, Vol I, Wakefield: Microform Academic, 1984, ISBN 1-85117-007-3. J.B.M. Frederick, Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978, Vol II, Wakefield: Microform Academic, 1984, ISBN 1-85117-009-X. Brig E.A. James, British Regiments 1914–18, London: Samson Books, 1978, ISBN 0-906304-03-2/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-84342-197-9. Lt-Col H.F. Joslen, Orders of Battle, United Kingdom and Colonial Formations and Units in the Second World War, 1939–1945, London: