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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.
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 ...
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.
2nd Battalion Scots Guards: The Queen: 1962: Sat 2 June: 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards: The Queen: 10th Trooping by the Queen. The Duke of Edinburgh was in North America [34] 1963: Sat 8 June: 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards: The Queen: Seven Guards on parade; the Queen rode a grey horse named "Doctor" 1964: Sat 13 June: 1st Battalion ...
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.
1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment (1962–1964) 1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (1963-1965) 3rd Battalion, Green Jackets (The Rifle Brigade) (February to June 1965, 4 month acclimatisation before Jungle Warfare School training in Malaya.) 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment (1965-1966, Gun Club Hill Barracks)
Also that year the 2nd Battalion was presented with new colours by the Queen at Hopeton House, Edinburgh In 1989 the 1st Battalion deployed on an emergency tour of East Tyrone, NI, a tour that lasted for about 4 months. The 2nd Battalion also deployed abroad, to Canada where they took part in 6-week exercises at the BATUS.
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 ...