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Papers, [1950]-[1999], relating to Bryn Owen's research on the history of the Welsh militia.

A group of submissions from the War Office to Queen Victoria relating to the Royal Anglesey Militia, 1867; the Denbighshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, 1876; the militia regiments of Denbighshire and Merioneth, 1876; the militia regiments of Radnorshire and Brecknockshire, 1876; the Royal Carnarvon Regiment of Militia, 1876; the Royal Cardigan (Rifle) Militia, 1877; the Royal Anglesey (Light Infantry) Militia and the Royal Anglesey Engineers Militia, 1877; etc. All the submissions carry notes of approval in the hand of theQueen. Also included in the group are a schedule of establishments of Welsh militia regiments [c. 1867], and an explanatory memorandum, 1867, by J[onathan] Peel, secretary at war, touching the wish of the lords lieutenant of the Welsh counties to return to the old system of independent corps.