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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 ...
However, in 1961, a reduction in the size of the TA led to the formation of 3rd and 4th Queen's Surreys: 3rd Battalion (TA) was formed of units affiliated to the Queen’s Royal Regiment: the 5th and 6th battalions and the 565th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (the successor to 4th Battalion). Its headquarters were in Guildford. [3]
There is a marble memorial plaque in the Chapel of the Queen's Royal Regiment at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford, to the 12 men of the battalion who died during the Second Boer War. [ 109 ] [ 110 ] The monument in the Chapel to the 11,000 men of the Queen's Regiment who died in World War I and World War II is a large wooden panel with a central ...
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.
3rd Green Jackets, The Rifle Brigade – 3rd Battalion [note 26] The Queen's Regiment – formed 31 December 1966 from: The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment – 1st Battalion; The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment – 2nd Battalion; The Royal Sussex Regiment – 3rd Battalion; The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) – 4th ...
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 ...
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).