§ Sir H. Morris-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for War whether he will specify all units in the Army which are classified as Welsh units, in corps, divisions or regiments; whether any attempt has been made in the war to form additional units of Welsh troops specified as such, in any branch of the Army; and whether he can give the figures in total of Welsh troops serving at home and abroad in English, Scottish or Irish units and, approximately the number of soldiers from Wales who served in such units or any branch of the Army between El Alamein and the completion of the Tunisian campaign?
§ Sir J. GriggI regret that much of the information asked for by my hon. Friend cannot for security reasons be made public. I am, however, most grateful for this opportunity to emphasise the great part which Welshmen are playing in the British Army. There are a number of Welsh divisions and brigades in the British Army which at present contains 58 Welsh units. These include Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Royal Corps of Signals, Guards, Infantry, Parachute Regiment, Royal Army Service Corps and Royal Army Medical Corps. Nine of these units have been formed since the beginning of the war. Welshmen serve as far as possible in Welsh units but very many are of course serving in other units of the British Army at home and overseas and Welshmen bore their full share of the campaign which ended in triumph in Tunisia.