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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 ...
2/5th Bn, Queen's – 155; 2/5th Bn, Buffs – 105; Small drafts from 8 different battalions of the Queen's – 216; Total– 931 men; 41st Division was now sent to the Flanders Coast, with 10th Queen's at Ghyvelde. Here it reorganised, did spells in the coast defences, and provided large working parties for an RE tunnelling company and to ...
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 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.
King's Regiment; Queen's Lancashire Regiment; Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 2 + 1 battalions; Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions; Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) - 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of: Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire; The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own ...
From Kent to Kohima: being the history of the 4th Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment (T.A.), 1939–1947. Aldershot: Gale & Polden. — Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment; Cooper, John P. (1953). The History of the 110th Field Artillery. Baltimore: War Records Division Maryland Historical. — 110th Royal Artillery Field Regiment
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.