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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.
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 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 2nd RSM was linked with the two battalions of the 2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot in Sub-District No 48 (County of Surrey) at Guildford. A planned second militia regiment for the sub-district, to be numbered the 4th Surrey, was never raised.
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 ...
Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 1st (The Royal) Regiment of Foot; Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot; Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 3rd (The East Kent) Regiment of Foot; King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot; Northumberland Fusiliers
The barracks became the headquarters of the 2nd Surrey Rifle Volunteers in 1859. [2] The 2nd Surrey Rifle Volunteers evolved to become the 4th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) in 1908. [1] The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to India. [3]
The Glasgow Greys – 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion East Surrey Regiment [1] [3] The Glesca Keelies – 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry [1] [3] (Regiment was mostly recruited in Glasgow ("Glesca"), allegedly from local ruffians ("Keelies").