The Monmouthshire Regiment of the nice struggle used to be a Territorial strength regiment, shaped in 1908 while the TF got here into lifestyles and in 1914 it consisted of 3 battalions. As relating to the opposite TF regiments moment and 3rd line battalions have been raised in 1914/1915 and the 1/2nd Battalion was once the 1st to visit France, touchdown on 7 November 1914 therefore changing into one of many few TF devices to put on the 1914 superstar. On arrival in France the battalion joined twelfth Brigade, 4th department yet in might 1915, as a result of heavy casualties sustained through 1/1st and 1/3rd Battalions which arrived out in February, the 3 battalions have been mixed for a short spell. In July 1915 1/2nd resumed its identification and lower back to twelfth Brigade. In might 1916 the battalion was once switched over to pioneers and from then on served because the pioneer battalion for the twenty ninth department (just back from Gallipoli).This heritage is of specific curiosity in that it's the tale of a battalion that fought as infantry in 1914/15 after which, for the remainder of the struggle, as pioneers, and there should not too many histories of pioneer battalions. The twenty ninth department was once a kind of chosen to march into Germany and its pioneer battalion went with it. Appendices supply the record of Honours and Awards (they did good with twenty DCMs) and the Roll of Honour (540 lifeless) with names indexed alphabetically through ranks. there's additionally the succession of Honorary Colonels, COs and Adjutants going again to 1861and different details. the 1st 3 chapters inform the tale of the Monmouths from 1859, while the Volunteer strength, the predecessor of the TF, was once shaped, to the outbreak of warfare in 1914.