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The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

British Army - Infantry

Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

Including

(Reflecting historic name changes)

2nd Foot (The Queen's Own Royal)

2nd Foot (The Queen's Royal)

Queen Dowager's Regiment of Foot

Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Foot

Lord Rutherford's Regiment of Foot

The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Foot

2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot

Queen's Regiment of Foot

The Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Foot

The Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot

The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

Royal West Surrey Regiment (The Queen's)

Sir R Harley's Regiment of Foot

Tangier Regiment

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8.2.1.1.1 The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a line infantry regiment of the English and later the British Army from 1661 to 1959. 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.

Active - 1661-1959

Mottos - Pristinae Virtutis Memor (Mindful of Former Valour); Vel Exuviae Triumphans (Even in Defeat Triumphant)

Uniform -

Corps March -

• Quick: The Braganza
• Slow: Scipio

Nick-name -

Timeline 1661

- raised by Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough as Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Foot, on Putney Heath (then in Surrey) to garrison the new English acquisition of Tangier, part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry when she married King Charles II; aka Tangier Regiment

1663 - a 2nd Battalion Tangier Regiment was raised as an Irish regiment. It was known as Fitzgerald's/Deputy Governer's Regiment. Disbanded.

1663 - absorbed Sir R Harley's Regiment of Foot and Lord Rutherford's Regiment of Foot.

Known by colonels' names until 1751

1663 - Andrew, Earl of Teviot WIKI
1664 - Henry Northwood WIKI
1668 - John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton
1675 - William O'Brien, 2nd Earl of Inchiquin
1680 - Sir Palmes Fairborne WIKI
1682 - Piercy Kirke
1691 - Major General William Selwyn
1701 - Sir Henry Bellasis WIKI
1703 - David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore
1710 - Piercy Kirke
1741 - Thomas Fowke

1684 - Named Queen's Regiment of Foot

1686 - Queen Dowager's Regiment of Foot

1703 - Re-designated The Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot

1714 - Re-designated The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Foot

1727 - Re-designated The Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Foot

1747 - Ranked 2nd Foot (The Queen's Own Royal)

1855 - Re-designated 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot

1857 - 2nd Battalion 2nd Foot was re-raised at Colchester.

1881 - 1st & 2nd Battalions - 2nd Foot (The Queen's Royal)

- name changed - Royal West Surrey Regiment (The Queen's)
- name changed - The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

1898 - Badge (right) introduced after 1898.

1921 Badge 1921 - (right)

1941 - 2nd Battalion was temporarily merged with 2nd battalion, Leicestershire Regiment to form The British Battalion which was captured by the Japanese in Singapore. It was re-constituted as 2nd Battalion, Leicesters, then Disbanded in 1948.

Its personnel were transferred to the 1st Battalion (which had previously been reduced to nil strength in 1947).

1948 - The 1st Battalion served in Berlin during the blockade to 1949

1949 - served Iserlohn in BAOR (British Army of the Rhine) part of 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Crossed Keys) until 1953.

1954-1957 - The 1st Battalion fought the Communist guerrillas during the Malayan Emergency

1950 - known as The Queen's Royal Regiment.

1957 - returned to Germany

1959 - Queens Royal Regiment (West Surrey) amalgamated with the East Surrey Regiment forming a single county regiment called the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment which was ...

31 December 1966 - 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.

1992 - the Queen's Regiment was amalgamated with the Royal Hampshire Regiment, forming the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires).

Battle honours

• Tangier 1662-80, Namur 1695, Ushant, Egypt, Vimiera, Corunna, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Toulouse, Peninsula, Ghuznee 1839, Khelat, Affghanistan 1839, South Africa 1851-2-3, Taku Forts, Pekin 1860, Burma 1885-87, Tirah, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902
• The Great War (25 battalions): Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917, Bullecourt, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Avre, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Soissonais Ourcq, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Rumani, Egypt 1915-16, Gaza, El Mughar, Jerusalem, Jericho, Tell 'Asur, Palestine 1917-18, Khan Baghdadi, Mesopotamia 1915-18, N W Frontier India 1916-17
• Afghanistan 1919
• The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, Villers Bocage, Mont Pincon, Lower Maas, Roer, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Syria 1941, Sidi Barrani, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, Deir el Munassib, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Medenine, Tunis, North Africa 1940-43, Salerno, Monte Stella, Scafati Bridge, Volturno Crossing, Monte Camino, Garigliano Crossing, Damiano, Anzio, Gothic Line, Gemmano Ridge, Senio Pocket, Senio Floodbank, Casa Fabri Bridge, Menate, Filo, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45, North Arakan, Kohima, Yenangyaung 1945, Sittang 1945, Chindits 1944, Burma 1943-45
• 4th, 5th Battalions: South Africa 1900-02

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

Victoria Cross

• Lieutenant (later Brigadier-General) Wallace Duffield Wright, Kano-Sokoto Expedition
• Captain (temporary Lieutenant Colonel, later Lieutenant-General) Bernard Cyril Freyberg, Great War
• 2nd Lieutenant (acting Captain) Clement Robertson, Great War
• Lance Corporal John William Sayer, Great War
• Captain (temporary Lieutenant Colonel) Christopher Bushell, Great War
• Lieutenant Alec George Horwood, Second World War

Regimental Colonels

• 30 September 1661: Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough
• 9 April 1663: Andrew Rutherford, 1st Earl of Teviot WIKI
• 10 June 1664: Henry Norwood WIKI
• 15 May 1668: John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton
• 5 March 1675: William O'Brien, 2nd Earl of Inchiquin
• 10 November 1680: Sir Palmes Fairborne (died before his commission was signed) WIKI
• 19 April 1682: Piercy Kirke
• 18 December 1691: Major General William Selwyn
• 28 June 1701: Sir Henry Bellasis WIKI

The Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot - (1703)

• 27 February 1703: David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore
• 19 September 1710: -Piercy Kirke

The Queen's Own Regiment of Foot - (1727)

• 12 August 1741: Thomas Fowke 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot - (1751)
• 12 November 1755: John Fitzwilliam
• 27 November 1760: Sir Charles Montagu
• 7 August 1777: Daniel Jones
• 20 November 1793: Alexander Stewart
• 20 December 1794: James Coates
• 22 July 1822: Sir Henry Torrens
• 25 August 1828: Sir William Keppel
• 23 December 1834: Sir James Kempt
• 7 August 1846: Alexander George Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun
• 29 August 1853: Sir John Rolt
• 9 November 1856: Sir James Holmes Schoedde
• 28 May 1857: John Spink
• 15 March 1877: Clement Alexander Edwards
• 25 March 1877: Henry Smyth

The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) - (1881)

• 6 June 1891: Robert Bruce
• 15 October 1891: Frederick Green Wilkinson
• 29 August 1893: Sir Edward Selby Smyth
• 23 September 1896: Granville George Chetwynd Stapylton
• 16 April 1902: Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny
• 27 December 1914: Sir Edmund Owen Fisher Hamilton
• 13 October 1920: Sir Charles Carmichael Monro

The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) - (1921)

• 7 December 1929: Sir Wilkinson Dent Bird
• 4 May 1939: Sir Ivo Lucius Beresford Vesey
• 1 May 1945: Sir George James Giffard
• 28 September 1954: John Yeldham Whitfield

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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)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Royal_Regiment_(West_Surrey)
  

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