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The Childers Reforms of 1881 restructured the infantry regiments of the British Army . The reforms were undertaken by Secretary of State for ___MASK41___ Hugh Childers in 1881 , and were a continuation of the earlier Cardwell Reforms . The Welch Regiment ( or " The Welch ", an archaic spelling of " Welsh ") was an infantry regiment of the line of the British Army in ___MASK89___ from 1881 until 1969 . The regiment was created in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 41st ( Welch ) Regiment of Foot and 69th ( South Lincolnshire ) Regiment of Foot to form the Welsh Regiment , which it was known as until 1920 when it was renamed the Welch Regiment . In 1969 the regiment was amalgamated with the South Wales Borderers to form the Royal Regiment of Wales . A tetralogy ( from Greek  - "", " four " and -  "- logia ", " discourse ") is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works . The name comes from the Attic ___MASK30___ , in which a tetralogy was a group of three tragedies followed by a satyr play , all by one author , to be played in one sitting at the Dionysia as part of a competition . The ___MASK31___ Review was an ___MASK31___ - language literary magazine published in ___MASK99___ from 1908 to 1937 . At its peak , the journal published some of the leading writers of its day . Satyr plays were an ancient Greek form of tragicomedy , similar in spirit to the bawdy satire of burlesque . They featured choruses of satyrs , were based on ___MASK7___ , and were rife with mock drunkenness , brazen sexuality ( including phallic props ), pranks , sight gags , and general merriment . Infantry is the general branch of an army that engages in military combat on foot . As the troops who engage with the enemy in close - ranged combat , infantry units ___MASK70___ the largest brunt of warfare and typically suffer the greatest number of casualties during a military campaign . Historically , as the oldest branch of the combat arms , the infantry are the tip of the spear of a modern army , and continually undergo training that is typically more physically demanding and psychologically stressful than that of any other branch of the combat arms . Common representations of infantry fighting forces include the U . S . Army Infantry Branch , U . S . Marine Corps Infantry , Royal Canadian Infantry Corps , Infantry of the British Army , and the Royal Australian Corps of Infantry . The South Wales Borderers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in ___MASK89___ for 280 years . It first came into ___MASK89___ , as the 24th Regiment of Foot in 1689 . Based at Brecon the regiment recruited from the ___MASK79___ counties of Monmouthshire , Herefordshire and Brecknockshire , but was not called the South Wales Borderers until the Childers Reforms of 1881 . The regiment served in a great many conflicts , including the American Revolutionary War , various conflicts in India , the Zulu War , Second Boer War , and ___MASK33___ and World War II . In 1969 the regiment was amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales . Ford Madox Ford ( born Ford Hermann Hueffer ; 17 December 1873  26 June 1939 ) was an ___MASK31___ novelist , ___MASK93___ , critic and editor whose journals , " The ___MASK31___ Review " and " The Transatlantic Review ", were instrumental in the development of early 20th - century ___MASK11___ . The Dionysia was a large festival in ancient Athens in honor of the ___MASK59___ Dionysus , the central events of which were the theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies and , from 487 BC , comedies . It was the second - most important festival after the Panathenaia . The Dionysia actually consisted of two related festivals , the Rural Dionysia and the ___MASK100___ Dionysia , which took place in different parts of the year . They were also an essential part of the Dionysian Mysteries . The Royal Regiment of Wales ( 24th / 41st Foot ) was an infantry regiment of the British Army , part of the Prince of Wales ' Division . It was formed in 1969 by the amalgamation of the South Wales Borderers and the Welch Regiment . The 1st Battalion , The Royal Regiment of Wales ( 24th / 41st Foot ) had a short ___MASK89___ in military terms , just over 36 years . Within two months of amalgamation , the battalion was one of the first units to be deployed to Northern Ireland . Parade ' s End is a tetralogy ( four related novels ) by the ___MASK31___ novelist and ___MASK93___ Ford Madox Ford published between 1924 and 1928 . It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in the First World War , in which Ford had served as an officer in the Welch Regiment , a life vividly depicted in the novels . In December 2010 , John N . Gray hailed the work as `` possibly the greatest 20th - century novel in ___MASK31___ '' and Mary Gordon labelled it as `` quite simply , the best fictional treatment of war in the history of the novel '' . The work is a complex tale written in a modernist style ( `` it is as modern and modernist as they come '' ) , does not concentrate on detailing the experience of war . Robie Macauley , in his introduction to the Borzoi edition of 1950 , described it as `` by no means a simple warning as to what modern warfare is like ... ( but ) something complex and baffling ( to many contemporary readers ) . There was a love story with no passionate scenes ; there were trenches but no battles ; there was a tragedy without a denouement . '' The novel is about the psychological result of the war on the participants and on society . In his introduction to the third novel , A Man Could Stand Up -- , Ford wrote , `` This is what the late war was like : this is how modern fighting of the organized , scientific type affects the mind '' . The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the ___MASK76___ . The force was initially administered by the War Office from London , which in 1964 was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence . The professional head of the British Army is the Chief of the General Staff .