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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.
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.
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 ...
1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 17 January 1940 – 15 May 1941 / 30 May 1941 – 11 June 1941; 2nd Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), 24 January 1940 – 22 October 1944; 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), 11 June 1941 – 25 September 1943 / 15 October 1944 – 28 October 1944
The Queen: 1976: Sat 12 June: 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards: The Queen: 1977: Sat 11 June: 1st Battalion Scots Guards: The Queen: 25th Trooping by the Queen, held as part of her nationwide Silver Jubilee celebrations 1978: Sat 3 June: 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards: The Queen: 1979: Sat 16 June: 2nd Battalion Scots Guards: The Queen: 1980 ...
The King's Regiment – 2nd Battalion; The Queen's Lancashire Regiment – 1st Battalion; The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) was formed on 6 June 2006 from: The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire – 1st Battalion; The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) – 2nd Battalion
The brigade was disbanded after the war in 1946 and reformed in 1947, as the 131st (Surrey) Infantry Brigade, in the post-war reorganisation of the Territorial Army, consisting of the 5th, 6th (Bermondsey) [31] and 7th (Southwark) battalions of the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), after amalgamating with the 2nd Line units. However, the ...
Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS .