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Image right - Princess of Wales Royal Regiment, all ranks beret Courtesy of Military Badge Collection- Niels Pedersen (adapted)

Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
British Army - senior English line infantry regiment

Active 9 September 1992 – present

Cover page

Links to sub-projects are/will be listed below in the body of the project.

Please link profiles of those who served in Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (POST 1992), as well as those in the following list***, (take note of the dates), to this project regardless of rank, conflict or nationality. People of note can be individually listed in Alphabetical Order below. These regiments do not have individual projects
Note that the following Regiments existed for the periods stated.

Including
(Reflecting historic name changes)

The Queen's Regiment*** (1966-1992)

Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment***(1959-1966)

Queen's Own Buffs, Royal West Kent Regiment ***(1961-1966)

The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (PWRR, known as ‘The Tigers’) is the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen’s Division. It was formed in 1992 by the amalgamation of The Queen’s Regiment and The Royal Hampshire Regiment and holds the earliest battle honour in the British Army (Tangier, 1662) which was not awarded until 1784. Through its ancestry via the Queen’s Regiment to the Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey), the PWRR is the most senior English line infantry regiment. The current regiment was named in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Upon its creation, HRH The Princess of Wales and HM The Queen of Denmark were Allied Colonels-in-Chief of the PWRR. When the Princess divorced HRH The Prince of Wales, she resigned as Colonel-in-chief and the Queen of Denmark has remained its Colonel-in-Chief since.

Active - 9 Sepot 1992 - present

Motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" "Shame on him who thinks ill of it"

March

• Quick - The Farmer's Boy/Soldiers of the Queen
• Slow - The Minden Rose

Nickname - The Tigers

Colonel in Chief - HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
Colonel of the Regiment - Brigadier Richard William Dennis OBE

Ancestry

8.2 Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

formed in 1992 by the amalgamation of ...

8.2.1 The Queen's Regiment*** (1966-1992)

1958 - Home Counties Brigade Regiments - amalgamation of ...
8.2.1.1 - Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment***

1958/59 amalgamation of ...
8.2.1.1.1 - Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
and
8.2.1.1.2 - East Surrey Regiment

8.2.1.2 - The Royal Sussex Regiment
8.2.1.3 - Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
8.2.1.4 - Queen's Own Buffs, Royal West Kent Regiment*** (1961-1966)

1958/61 amalgamation of ...
8.2.1.4.1 - The Buffs Royal East Kent Regiment
and
8.2.1.4.2 - Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

and
8.2.2 Royal Hampshire Regiment

Illustrated

8.2.1.1.18.2.1.1.28.2.1.4.18.2.1.4.2

8.2.1.18.2.1.28.2.1.38.2.1.4

Home Counties Brigade Regiments

The Queen's Rgt8.2.2

Battle honours

(combined battle honours of the Queen's Regiment, and the Royal Hampshire Regiment, with the following emblazoned:)

• Regimental Colours [1]: Tangier 1662-80, Namur 1695, Gibraltar 1704-5, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Minden, Louisburg, Guadeloupe 1759, Quebec 1759, Belleisle, Tournay, Barrosa, Martinique 1762, Seringapatam, Maida, Corunna, Talavera, Albuhera, Almaraz, Vittoria, Peninsula, Punniar, Moodkee, Sobraon, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Lucknow, Taku Forts, Pekin 1860, New Zealand, Afghanistan 1879-80, Nile 1884-85, Burma 1885-87, Relief of Ladysmith, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902, Korea 1950-51
• Queen's Colours: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Hill 60, Festubert 1915, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Cambrai 1917 '18, Hindenburg Line, Italy 1917–18, Doiran 1917-18, Landing at Helles, Gaza, Jerusalem, Palestine 1917–18, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Mesopotamia 1915–18, North West Frontier India 1915 1916-17, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Caen, Rhine, North-West Europe 1944-45, Abyssinia 1941, El Alamein, Tebourba Gap, Hunt's Gap, Longstop Hill, North Africa 1940–43, Sicily 1943, Salerno, Anzio, Cassino, Gothic Line, Italy 1943-45, Malta 1940–42, Malaya 1941–42, Hong Kong, Defence of Kohima, Burma 1943–45
  

[1]. also emblazoned:

• The Naval Crown superscribed "1st June 1794" - from the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
• The Sphinx superscribed "Egypt" - from the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) & Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
• The Royal Tiger superscribed "India" - from the Royal Hampshire Regiment

Notable Personnel

Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles. Other links take you to external biographical web pages.

A total of thirty-seven medals and awards were awarded to the regiment's 1st Battalion for their service during operations in Iraq in 2004, including a Victoria Cross, two Distinguished Service Orders, two Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, one Member of the Order of the British Empire for gallantry, ten Military Crosses, and seventeen were Mentioned in Despatches, making the regiment the most highly decorated serving regiment in the British Army at that time.[Mills, Dan (2007). Ref. Sniper One: The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-7181-4994-9.]

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• Private Johnson Beharry of the 1st Battalion, PWRR was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during his unit's deployment to Amarah, near Basra.[20]

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• Whilst attached to the 1st Battalion, Michelle Norris of the Royal Army Medical Corps became the first woman to be awarded the Military Cross following her actions on 11 June 2006. WIKI

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Sources, References and Further Reading

• Brereton, J M A Guide to the regiments and Corps of the British Army on the Regular Establishment (Bodley Head) 1985
• Griffin, P D Encyclopedia of Modern British Army Regiments (Sutton Publishers) 2006
• Lumley, Goff Amalgamations in the British Army 1660-2008 (Partizan Press 2009)

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