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The 2nd Royal Surrey Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) was an auxiliary [a] regiment raised in Surrey in the Home counties of England. From its formal creation in 1797 the regiment served in home defence in all of Britain's major wars.
But the Peace of Amiens broke down in 1803 before the 1st Surreys could be disembodied and the regiment remained in service; the 2nd Surreys were embodied again on 11 March 1803. On 23 April 1804 both the Surrey militia regiments were granted the title 'Royal', becoming the 1st and 2nd Royal Surrey Militia (1st and 2nd RSM).
The Surrey Trained Bands were a part-time military force in Surrey in the Home counties of England from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Surrey Militia in 1662. They were periodically embodied for home defence, for example in the army mustered at Tilbury during the Armada Campaign of 1588, and they saw some active service during the English Civil War.
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 3rd Royal Surrey Militia, later the 4th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment was an auxiliary [a] regiment raised 1853 in Surrey in the Home counties of England. The regiment's role was to serve in home defence, but it saw active service during the Second Boer War, and trained thousands of reinforcements during World War I, one of its new officers winning a Victoria Cross.
The Childers Reforms of 1881 took Cardwell's reforms further, and the Volunteers were formally affiliated to their local Regular regiment, the 6th Surrey RVC becoming the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) in March 1883. Battalion HQ moved back to Bermondsey in 1884.
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.
The training staff retained their Sussex badges. On 24 October 1917 the battalion transferred to the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) as 53rd (Young Soldier) Battalion, remaining in 5th Reserve Bde. After the war ended it was converted into a service battalion on 8 February 1919 and was absorbed into 2/4th Bn, Queen's, in April 1919.
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