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The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army which existed from 1959 to 1966. In 1966, it was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) to form the Queen's Regiment, which later merged with the Royal Hampshire Regiment in September 1992 to form the ...
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a line infantry regiment of the English and later the British Army from 1661 to 1959. [1] It was the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, behind only the Royal Scots in the British Army line infantry order of precedence.
When the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot became The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, [1] it became the county regiment of West Surrey, and one pre-existent militia and four volunteer battalions of West Surrey were integrated into the structure of the Queen's Royal Regiment.
The 10th (Service) Battalion, Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (Battersea) (10th Queen's) was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I.It was raised in the summer of 1915 by the Mayor and Borough of Battersea in the suburbs of South London.
Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 10th (Service) Battersea Battersea, 3 June 1915 Mayor and Borough of Battersea: 124th Brigade, 41st Division [35] [36] 11th (Service) Lambeth Lambeth, 16 June 1915 Mayor and Borough of Lambeth: 123rd Brigade, 41st Division [35] [36] 12th (Reserve) Brixton, October 1915 Depot companies of 10th and 11th Battalions
The Queen's & Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Regimental Museum is based at Dover Castle [40] The Queen's Own Hussars Museum is based at Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick [41] The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum is based at Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery in Maidstone [42] The Rifles Museum is based at Peninsula Barracks in ...
Queen Elizabeth II’s Evolution From Princess to the Longest-Reigning British Monarch Read article When Her Majesty, who died at age 96 on Thursday, September 8, married Prince Philip in 1947 ...
The 4th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (4th Queen's) was a volunteer unit of the British Army from 1859 to 1961. Beginning from small independent units recruited in the South London suburbs, it was attached to the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) and served in the Second Boer War, the First World War, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War.