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Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, founder of the regiment. The regiment was raised in 1661 by Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough as The Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Foot on Putney Heath (then in Surrey) specifically to garrison the new English acquisition of Tangier, part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry when she married King Charles II. [4]
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 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.
The barracks became the depot for the two battalions of the 2nd (West Surrey) Regiment of Foot. [3] Following the Childers Reforms , the regiment evolved to become the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) with its depot in the barracks in 1881.
The 1st and 3rd RSM were linked with the 31st (Huntingdonshire) and 70th (Surrey) Regiments of Foot in Sub-District No 47 (County of Surrey) with a shared depot at Kingston. 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 ...
63rd (Queen's) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery; 69th Provisional Battalion (Territorial Force) 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot; 70th Provisional Battalion (Territorial Force) 98th (Surrey & Sussex Yeomanry Queen Mary’s) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; 127th (Queen's) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery; 131st Infantry Brigade ...
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 ...
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").