Denbighshire Hussars The Denbighshire Hussars was a unit of the British Army from 1794 to 1921 . It saw service in the First World War before being merged into a unit of the Royal Artillery . Early history . Formed as a volunteer cavalry unit in 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars , the Regiment became the Denbighshire Hussars in 1876 . It trained at Hightown barracks in Wrexham for the Boer War and the two World Wars . In 1830 it was used to quell colliery workers in Rhosllannerchrugog . The colliery workers were angered by the truck shop system that forced them to spend their wages in shops owned by their employers . They planned to destroy a truck shop owned by the British Ironworks Company . The Regiment was ordered out on patrol to ' terrify the mob . ' At an incident in Rhosllannerchrugog , known as the Battle of Cinder Hill , overzealous troops had to be brought under control after a demonstrator threw a firework at the soldiers . In 1911 the Regiment had the honour of being the escort to the Prince of Wales to his Investiture at Caernarfon Castle . World War I . The Denbighshire Hussars , like other Yeomanry Regiments formed second and third line regiments in September 1914 , the 2 / 1st Denbighshire Hussars remained in the United Kingdom throughout the war and were converted into a cyclist unit in 1916 . The 3 / 1st Denbighshire Hussars was formed in 1915 and also remained in the United Kingdom before being disbanded in 1917 . The 1 / 1st Denbighshire Hussars in 1914 , were in the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade , which in September 1914 was attached to the 1st Mounted Division . In 1916 the 1 / 1st , together with the rest of the Brigade and the South Wales Mounted Brigade , became a dismounted unit . In November 1915 it became a dismounted unit and moved to Egypt , forming the 4th Dismounted Brigade . In February 1917 it went through another change . This time the unit was re - roled as infantry to become the 24th ( Denbighshire Yeomanry ) Battalion , Royal Welsh Fusiliers , attached to the 231st Brigade , 74th ( Yeomanry ) Division . As part of the 74th ( Yeomanry ) Division , the Battalion / Regiment was involved in the Second and Third Battles of Gaza , the Battle of Beersheba and the Battle of Epehy . Amalgamation . After World War I , it had become clear that cavalry was obsolete and in 1922 it was announced that some Yeomanry Regiments were to become Royal Artillery units . The Denbighshire Yeomanry were one of these Regiments ; it was re - roled as a medium artillery formation , and amalgamated with the 61st Medium Brigade Royal Garrison Artillery ( the former Carnarvonshire Artillery Volunteers ) , to form 61 Medium Regiment R . A . ( Caernarvon and Denbigh Yeomanry ) . In 1939 it formed a duplicate unit , 69 Medium Regiment R . A . ( Caernarvon & Denbigh Yeomanry ) . It would see service in France during the phoney war ( 1939 - 1940 ) ; after the Dunkirk evacuation , it would remain in the United Kingdom until returning to Europe in June 1944 with 21st Army Group . In 1947 the regiment reformed as an artillery formation as 361st ( Carnarvonshire and Denbigh Yeomanry ) Medium Regiment . In 1956 this was merged with the 384th Light Regiment ( formerly 5th Battalion , Royal Welch Fusiliers ) to become the 372nd ( Flintshire and Denbighshire Yeomanry ) Regiment . The Regiment effectively ceased to exist in 1968 , although it continued in name as a cadre until it was amalgamated in 1971 with the Welsh Volunteers to become the 3rd ( V ) Bn Royal Welch Fusiliers , in which form its lineage was continued until 1999 as a unit of the Territorial Army . In 1969 , Cadre members formed part of the military route - lining party for the Investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon .