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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.
The Queen's Regiment (QUEENS) was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1966 through the amalgamation of the four regiments of the Home Counties Brigade.Then, until 1971 the regiment remained one of the largest regiments in the army, with 10 battalions, however these were reduced to just six, and later five battalions.
4th and 5th Bns Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 19th Bn, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) [59] [60] [61] 70th 5th and 6th Bns, East Surrey Regiment: 15th Bn, Royal Sussex Regiment [22] [62] [63] 71st 4th and 5th Bns, Buffs (East Kent Regiment); 4th and 5th Bns, Royal West Kent Regiment: Amalgamated with 69th Provisional Bn 5 June 1916 ...
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.
Following the formation of the 4th (Volunteer) Battalion, Queen's Lancashire Regiment on 1 April 1975, Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters Company were based at the barracks. [13] After the battalion's disbandment and subsequent absorption into the Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers in 1999, the new regiment established its Regimental ...
5th Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 1st VB, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 4th Bn, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 5th Bn, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) Raised 1908: 6th (Cyclist) Bn, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 1910 redesignated: The Kent Cyclist Battalion. Kincardineshire
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8th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Fusiliers (City of London) (8 QF [3]) -> formed in 1988 as hybrid TA unit between Queen's Regiment and Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Following the reorganisation of the TA in 1999, the Queen's Division was reduced to just six regular battalions (two in each regiment) and just three TA battalions (one in each).