Sport and Adventure

As a Welsh Guardsman you will regularly be able to be play almost any sport you choose at any level.

Playing sport and going on adventurous training trips such as skydiving in Arizona are a vital part of life in the Welsh Guards. Sport and adventurous training help team-building, test and develop people's courage and, just as importantly, are good fun.

The Battalion currently has a strong rugby team as well as football, boxing, athletics and skiing teams.

Thousands of pounds are spent by the Battalion each year sending Guardsmen on adventurous training expeditions. Recently, our soldiers have gone scuba diving in the Bahamas, skydiving in America, skiing in the French Alps and sailing around the world. These expeditions increase the confidence and talents of all those involved and thereby make them better and more professional soldiers for operations.

A recent adventurous expedition was Exercise Iron Guardsman. This was initiated as a challenging way of returning from Operations in Bosnia in 2007, and involved bicycling from Bosnia to Calais, Kayaking across the channel, and then running from Dover to Wellington Barracks in London, which all took 31 days.

More recently the Battalion Rugby team has obtained the enviable position of achieving a place in the final of the Army Rugby Cup over the last three years. We were runners up in 2009 and 2010 and won the event in 2011 being the current holders of the Army Cup.

The Battalion football team is the current Infantry Cup Runners Up, Divisional Cup Semi Finalists and Army Cup Quarter Finalists.

They also have a recent affiliation to Brentford Football Club.