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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.
On 15 March 41st Division was redesignated 'London Division', and 10th Queen's was moved to 123rd Bde, joining 11th Queen's and 2/4th Queen's. As men were progressively demobilised, 51st (Service) Bn, Queen's, previously a training unit, arrived from England and was absorbed into 11th Queen's on 1 April, maintaining the battalion at full strength.
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.
However, the 7th Queen's, after absorbing the duplicate 2/7th Battalion, was converted into 622nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (7th Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment). [31] The 6th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment [ 32 ] replaced it but was disbanded in 1961 when the divisions amalgamated with the districts, and the 44th ...
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - 1 + 2 battalions [14] The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Yorkshire Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Welsh - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Mercian Regiment - 1 ...
King's Own Royal Border Regiment; 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 ...
The Royal Marines, as the descendant of the old Army marine regiments of the 17th and 18th centuries, were included in the Order of Precedence after the descendant of the 49th Foot (the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry (RGBWLI)), which was the last line regiment of foot formed prior to the formation of the Royal ...