The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a

line infantry Line infantry was the type of infantry that formed the bulk of most European land armies from the mid-17th century to the mid-19th century. Maurice of Nassau and Gustavus Adolphus are generally regarded as its pioneers, while Henri de la Tour d ...

regiment A regiment is a military unit. Its role and size varies markedly, depending on the country, military service, service, or administrative corps, specialisation. In Middle Ages, Medieval Europe, the term "regiment" denoted any large body of l ...

of the English and later the

British Army The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...

from 1661 to 1959. It was the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, behind only the

Royal Scots The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment line infantry, of the line of the British Army, having been raised in 1633 during the reign of Charles I of England ...

in the British Army line infantry

order of precedence An order of precedence is a sequential hierarchy of importance applied to individuals, groups, or organizations. For individuals, it is most often used for diplomats in attendance at very formal occasions. It can also be used in the context of ...

. In 1959, the regiment was amalgamated with the

East Surrey Regiment The East Surrey Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959. The regiment was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot, the 70th ( ...

, to form a single county regiment called the

Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment 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 Re ...

which was, on 31 December 1966, amalgamated with the

Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1961 to 1966. Its lineage is continued by the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires). History The regiment was formed ...

, the

Royal Sussex Regiment The Royal Sussex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was in existence from 1881 to 1966. The regiment was formed in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foo ...

and the

Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1966. The regiment was formed, as the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), in 1881 as part of the Childers Ref ...

to form the

Queen's Regiment 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 ar ...

. Following a further amalgamation in 1992 with the

Royal Hampshire Regiment The Hampshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot and the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot. The re ...

, the lineage of the regiment is continued today by the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires).

Titles

The regiment was raised in 1661 by

Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough (15 November 1621 – 19 June 1697) was an English soldier, peer and courtier. Early life Styled Lord Mordaunt from 1628, he was the eldest son of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough. He was educ ...

as The Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Foot on

Putney Putney () is an affluent district in southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. History Putney is an ...

Heath (then in

Surrey Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the wes ...

) specifically to garrison the new English acquisition of

Tangier Tangier ( ; , , ) is a city in northwestern Morocco, on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The city is the capital city, capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, as well as the Tangier-Assilah Prefecture of Moroc ...

, part of

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's dowry when she married King Charles II. From this service, it was also known as the Tangier Regiment. As was usual at the time, it was also named after its current

colonel Colonel ( ; abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military Officer (armed forces), officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations. In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, a colon ...

, from one of whom,

Percy Kirke Lieutenant-General Percy Kirke ( – 31 October 1691) was an English Army officer who was the son of George Kirke, a court official to Charles I and Charles II. Career In 1666 Kirke obtained his first Army commission in Lord Admiral's reg ...

, it acquired its nickname ''Kirke's Lambs''. It was withdrawn along with the rest of the

Tangier Garrison The Tangier Garrison was the land force which oversaw the defence of English Tangier between 1661 and 1684 when it was evacuated. It was part of the English Army, the de facto standing army that Charles II of England, Charles II established foll ...

when Charles II abandoned the colony. In 1685, it was given the Royal title the Queen Dowager's Regiment of Foot (after Queen Catherine, widow of Charles II) and in 1703 became The Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot. In 1715, it was renamed The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Foot after

Caroline of Ansbach Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline; 1 March 1683 – 20 November 1737) was List of British royal consorts, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and List of Hanoverian royal consorts, Electress of Hanover from 11 J ...

, then Princess of Wales, and was re-designated The Queen's Own Regiment of Foot in 1727 when the Princess became Queen. It was ranked as 2nd Foot in the clothing regulations of 1747, and was renamed 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot by Royal warrant in 1751. In the

Childers reforms The Childers Reforms of 1881 reorganised the infantry regiments of the British Army. The reforms were done by Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers during 1881, and were a continuation of the earlier Cardwell Reforms. The reorganisation w ...

of 1881 it became the county regiment of West

, named The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. In 1921, its title was slightly altered to The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey). By 1950 it was known as The Queen's Royal Regiment. In 1959, it was amalgamated with the

, to form the

History

Early years

The regiment shipped to

where it remained until the port was evacuated in 1684, when it returned to England. It took part in the suppression of the

Monmouth Rebellion The Monmouth Rebellion in June 1685 was an attempt to depose James II of England, James II, who in February had succeeded his brother Charles II of England, Charles II as king of Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland and ...

, fighting at the

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, where it earned a widespread (but probably exaggerated) reputation for brutality. After the

Glorious Revolution The Glorious Revolution, also known as the Revolution of 1688, was the deposition of James II and VII, James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II, Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange ...

, it fought in Ireland for the new king, William III, defending the besieged Derry in 1689 and at the

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in 1690. From 1692 to 1696 it fought in

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in the

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, at the

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and the recapture of Namur in 1695. During the

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it served in the Iberian campaign, at Cadiz,

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, the sieges of Valencia de Alcantara,

Alburquerque, Badajoz Alburquerque () is a town in the province of Badajoz (province), Badajoz in Spain. It has 5,340 inhabitants, as of 2018. The town is close to the border with Portugal and was an ancient dominion of the kings of that country. The titles of ''Lord ...

Alcantara Alcantara, Alcântara ( Portuguese), Alcántara (Spanish), Alcàntara, Alcàntera, El-Qantarah and (El) Kantara are all transliterations of the Arabic word ''al-qantara'' (القنطرة), meaning "the bridge". Alcantara may refer to: People * ...

and

Ciudad Rodrigo Ciudad Rodrigo () is a small cathedral city in the province of Salamanca (province), Salamanca, in western Spain, with a population in 2016 of 12,896. It is also the seat of a judicial district. The site of Ciudad Rodrigo, perched atop a rocky r ...

, and was virtually destroyed in the disastrous

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. In the campaign in the

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in 1703, it defended

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against overwhelming odds, giving Lord Overkirk time to re-group his forces, until it was eventually captured. It was for this action that it was awarded its Royal title and its mottoes. It spent most of the remainder of the 18th century on garrison duty, being one of the regiments involved in putting down the

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French and Napoleonic Wars

Lord Howe on the deck of HMS Queen Charlotte 1 June 1794

On the outbreak of the

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, detachments were in the West Indies and acting as marines in the Channel Fleet, notably at the battle of the

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in 1794, where they served on Howe's flagship, ''Queen Charlotte'' and also on board ''Russell'', ''Defence'', ''Royal George'' and ''Majestic''. In recognition of the regiment's service, it was granted the distinction of wearing a

Naval Crown The Naval Crown () was a gold crown surmounted with small replicas of the prows of ships. It was a Roman military award, given to the first man who boarded an enemy ship during a naval engagement. In heraldry a naval crown is mounted atop t ...

superscribed ''1 June 1794'' on its colours. The regiment was then reunited and sent to the West Indies where it took part in the capture of Guadeloupe in 1794, although the occupation was short-lived owing to outbreaks of disease, particularly yellow fever, among the troops, and the capture of Trinidad in 1797. A second battalion was formed in 1795 and stationed in

Guernsey Guernsey ( ; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; ) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It is the largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited isl ...

before being shipped to

Martinique Martinique ( ; or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It was previously known as Iguanacaera which translates to iguana island in Carib language, Kariʼn ...

, where it was disbanded in 1797, its personnel being absorbed by 1st Battalion. The regiment was transferred to

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

in 1798 where it helped put down the Irish rebellion and then took part in the unsuccessful 1799

Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland The Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland (or Anglo-Russian expedition to Holland, or Helder Expedition) was a military campaign from 27 August to 19 November 1799 during the War of the Second Coalition, in which an expeditionary force of British and ...

. In 1800, it was part of the abortive expedition to Belle Isle, from which it sailed to

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where it fought at the Battle of Alexandria, the Siege of Fort Julien and the Siege of Alexandria. During the

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, the regiment first fought in the

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at the battles of Vimeiro and Corunna. It then took part in the disastrous

Walcheren Campaign The Walcheren Campaign () was an unsuccessful United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British expedition to the Kingdom of Holland in 1809 intended to open another front in the Austrian Empire's struggle with First French Empire, France ...

before returning to the Peninsula to fight at the

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, the second Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, the

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and the unsuccessful

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. By the winter of 1812, the regiment was so depleted by casualties and disease that four companies were amalgamated with the equally weakened 2nd Battalion, 53rd Foot, to form the 2nd Provisional Battalion. Six cadre companies returned home to re-form. As part of the 4th Division, the Provisional Battalion took part in the Wellington's triumph at the

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on 21 June 1813, followed by the

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and, 1814, the battles of Orthes and

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The Victorian era

The regiment was on garrison duty in

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when the

First Afghan War The First Anglo-Afghan War () was fought between the British Empire and the Emirate of Kabul from 1838 to 1842. The British initially successfully invaded the country taking sides in a succession dispute between emir Dost Mohammad Khan ( Bara ...

broke out in 1839. It formed part of the force that attacked the previously impregnable city of

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, taking the city by storm because the army lacked siege equipment, and opening the way to

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. It returned to India in November 1839, storming the city of Khelat ''en route'', and avoiding destruction along with the rest of Elphinstone's army. The regiment was shipped to the

Cape Colony The Cape Colony (), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British Empire, British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope. It existed from 1795 to 1802, and again from 1806 to 1910, when it united with three ...

during the Eighth Xhosa War in 1851. On 25 February 1852 a detachment of 51 men under the command of Ensign Boyland were aboard HMS ''Birkenhead'' travelling from

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when the ship struck rocks. The troops were assembled on deck and remained at attention to afford the embarked women and children time to take their place in the lifeboats. Shortly after this the ship broke up and the vast majority of the troops on board were either drowned or fell victim to sharks. The bravery of the troops, made up of cadres from ten different regiments, led to the naming of the Birkenhead Drill. It once again became the 1st Battalion when the 2nd Battalion was reformed in 1857, and went to China in 1860 at the time of the

Second Opium War The Second Opium War (), also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War or ''Arrow'' War, was fought between the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and the United States against the Qing dynasty of China between 1856 and 1860. It was the second major ...

, fighting at the Third Battle of Taku Forts and the capture of

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. It was stationed in the

Imperial fortress Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Lord Salisbury described Malta, Gibraltar, Bermuda, and Halifax as Imperial fortresses at the 1887 Colonial Conference, though by that point they had been so designated for decades. Later histor ...

colony of

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from 1864 to 1866. Although too far North for yellow fever to establish itself in perpetuity, the disease was introduced to Bermuda several times during the 19th century by mail boats from the West Indies, causing endemics that resulted in many deaths, most particularly among members of the armed forces. Under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel F. L. O. Attye, the battalion arrived at the

Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda HMD Bermuda ( Her/His Majesty's Dockyard, Bermuda) was the principal base of the Royal Navy in the Western Atlantic between American independence and the Cold War. The Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda had occupied a useful position astride ...

(aboard HMS ''Orontes'' from Gibraltar, via Madeira) on 15 July 1864, in the midst of one of these epidemics and its losses in Bermuda included Assistant Surgeon James Murray Chalk at St. George's Garrison on 8 February 1865 and Douglas James Mounteny Rose, the five-year-old son of Lieutenant-Colonel Rose, who died the following day. The battalion lost fifty-two officers and men in the epidemic. The battalion departed Bermuda for Cork, Ireland, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Werge, aboard HMS ''Orontes'' on 3 November 1866. The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the

Cardwell Reforms The Cardwell Reforms were a series of reforms of the British Army undertaken by Secretary of State for War Edward Cardwell between 1868 and 1874 with the support of Liberal prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone paid little attentio ...

of the 1870s, which gave it a depot at Stoughton Barracks in

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from 1873, or by the Childers reforms of 1881 – as it already possessed two battalions, there was no need for it to amalgamate with another regiment. Under the reforms it became The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment on 1 July 1881. In 1897–98, a battalion took part in the Tirah Expedition on the North-West Frontier. The 1st battalion was stationed at Malta from 1891, then in

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where it was posted at

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until late 1902 when it moved to

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near the historic

Khyber Pass The Khyber Pass (Urdu: درۂ خیبر; ) is a mountain pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on the border with the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. It connects the town of Landi Kotal to the Valley of Peshawar at Jamrud by tr ...

on the border to Afghanistan. The 2nd Battalion fought in the

Third Anglo-Burmese War The Third Anglo-Burmese War (), also known as the Third Burma War, took place during 7–29 November 1885, with sporadic resistance continuing into 1887. It was the final of three wars fought in the 19th century between the Burmese and the Br ...

from 1886 to 1888 and in South Africa from 1899 to 1904 including during the

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(1899–1902). From October 1910 until October 1912, it was stationed in the

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. From October 1912 through 1914 it was stationed in the Imperial fortress colony of

, as the regular infantry battalion of the

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. While in Bermuda, the

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filmed

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and For Valour there, and was provided extensive support from the garrison, with parts of Prospect Camp providing sets, and personnel from the 2nd Battalion appearing as extras. A 3rd (

Militia A militia ( ) is a military or paramilitary force that comprises civilian members, as opposed to a professional standing army of regular, full-time military personnel. Militias may be raised in times of need to support regular troops or se ...

) Battalion was formed from the former 2nd Royal Surrey Militia, with headquarters at Guildford. The Battalion was embodied in December 1899 to provide troops for the

, 550 men embarked for

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in February 1900; and returned to the United Kingdom in May 1902, when it received a public welcome and reception at Guildford. Under the Childers Reforms, two battalions of the

Volunteer Force The Volunteer Force was a citizen army of part-time rifle, artillery and engineer corps, created as a Social movement, popular movement throughout the British Empire in 1859. Originally highly autonomous, the units of volunteers became increa ...

were attached to the regiment in 1883. These had originally been raised in 1859–60 in response to an invasion scare. The 1st Volunteer Battalion (VB) was formed from the 2nd Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC), at the

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, Mitcham Road,

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, while the 2nd VB was formed from the 4th Surrey RVC at

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Haswell, pp. 122–4. Both Volunteer Battalions contributed to service companies of volunteers who served alongside the regulars during the

, and received the battle honour for the campaign. Under the

Haldane Reforms The Haldane Reforms were a series of far-ranging reforms of the British Army made from 1906 to 1912, and named after the Secretary of State for War, Richard Burdon Haldane. They were the first major reforms since the " Childers Reforms" of the e ...

of 1908 the Militia became the

Special Reserve The Special Reserve was established on 1 April 1908 with the function of maintaining a reservoir of manpower for the British Army and training replacement drafts in times of war. Its formation was part of the military reforms implemented by Ri ...

and the Volunteers became part of the

Territorial Force The Territorial Force was a part-time volunteer component of the British Army, created in 1908 to augment British land forces without resorting to conscription. The new organisation consolidated the 19th-century Volunteer Force and yeomanry in ...

(TF). The regiment now had the 3rd Battalion (Special Reserve), with the 4th Battalion (TF) at the

and the 5th Battalion (TF) at Sandfield Terrace in Guildford (since demolished).

The First World War

Regular Army

The 1st Battalion landed at

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as part of the 3rd Brigade in the 1st Division in August 1914, and spent the entire war on the Western Front. The battalion saw action at the

Battle of Mons The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (World War I), British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies of World W ...

, the Battle of the Marne, the Battle of the Aisne, the

Battle of Ypres The Battle of Ypres was a series of engagements during the First World War, near the Belgian city of Ypres, between the German and the Allied armies (Belgian, French and British colonial forces). During the five engagements, casualties may have su ...

, the

Battle of Aubers Ridge The Battle of Aubers (Battle of Aubers Ridge) was a British offensive on the Western Front on 9 May 1915 during the First World War. The battle was part of the British contribution to the Second Battle of Artois, a Franco-British offensive int ...

, the

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, The

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, the Battle of Bellecourt, the

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, the

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and the Battle of Arras. The 2nd Battalion was in

when war broke out and landed at

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as part of the 22nd Brigade in the 7th Division in October 1914 for service on the Western Front. It fought at the Battle of Ypres, Battle of Aubers Ridge, Battle of Festubert, Battle of Loos and the

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until November 1917, when it was sent to the Italian Front, taking part in the battles of the Piave and

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Territorial Force

The 1/4th Battalion moved to

as part of the Surrey Brigade in the

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in October 1914 and remained there throughout the war, serving on the North West Frontier, and was afterwards involved in the

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in 1919.The Queen's Shrine, Croydon Parish Church, at Queen's Royal Surreys
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in December 1915. As soon as the 1st-Line Territorials had gone overseas, the Territorial Associations started raising 2nd- and 3rd-Line battalions, designated the 2/4th, 2/5th ''etc''. The 4th Queen's was unusual in sending its 3rd-Line battalion overseas, so a 4/4th Bn was raised to train recruits; eventually it absorbed the 3/5th Bn as the 4th Reserve Battalion. The 2/4th Battalion saw more varied service than any of the other Queen's TF battalions, in the Gallipoli Campaign, in Egypt#British protectorate .281882.E2.80.931952.29, Egypt, and Sinai and Palestine Campaign, Palestine, all as part of the 53rd (Welsh) Division, before being sent back as reinforcements to the Western Front where it served in 34th Division (United Kingdom), 34th Division under French command before taking part in the final advance to victory in November 1918. The 4th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), 3/4th Bn was sent to the Western Front as reinforcements in August 1917, where it joined 21st Division (United Kingdom), 21st Division and fought at Battle of Broodseinde, Broodseinde and Battle of Cambrai (1917), Cambrai. It was broken up to provide drafts in February 1918. There were also 19th and 20th TF Battalions formed from the Home Service men of the regiment.

New Army

The Queen's also formed a number of battalions of the New Army, or 'Kitchener's Army' * 6th (Service) Bn – served in 12th (Eastern) Division on the Western Front * 7th (Service) Bn – served in 18th (Eastern) Division on the Western Front * 8th (Service) Bn – served in 24th Division (United Kingdom), 24th Division on the Western Front * 9th (Reserve) Bn – served in the UK training recruits * 10th (Service) Bn (Battersea) – formed by the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and served in 41st Division (United Kingdom), 41st Division on the Western FrontBecke, Pt 3b, pp.109–15. * 11th (Service) Bn (Lambeth) – formed by the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth and also served in 41st DivisionBecke, Pt 3b, pp.109–15. * 12th (Reserve) Bn – served in the UK training recruits

Other battalions

* 13th (Labour) Bn – served on the Western Front * 14th (Labour) Bn – served in Macedonian front, Salonika * 15th (Labour) Bn – served on the Western Front * 16th (Home Service) Bn – served in the UK * 17th (Labour) Bn – served in the UK * 18th (Labour) Bn – served in the UK Returning prisoners of war were awarded a "Welcome Home Medal" at a reception in Guildford in January 1919. The medal has the regimental badge on one side and the inscription, "Prisoners of War The Queens Regiment Welcome Home" on the reverse and is dated MCMXVIII.

Between the wars

The 1st Battalion spent the inter-war years on garrison duty, both in Britain and overseas. The 2nd Battalion took part in the Waziristan campaign (1919–20), Waziristan campaign of 1919–1920, attempting to pacify the tribal areas during the unrest following the

. It was in Mandate Palestine, Palestine during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, Insurgency of 1936–1939. The 4th and 5th Battalions were both reformed in the Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Territorial Army, assigned to the 131st Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), 131st (Surrey) Infantry Brigade, alongside the 5th and 6th battalions of the East Surrey Regiment. However, in the reorganisation of the Territorial Army's infantry in the late 1930s, the 4th Queen's was transferred to the Royal Artillery and converted into the 4th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), 63rd (Queen's) Searchlight Regiment. The regiment was also reassigned the 22nd (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (The Queen's), 22nd and 24th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (The Queen's), 24th (County of London) battalions of the London Regiment (1908-1938), London Regiment, which disbanded in 1938. These battalions became the 22nd (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (The Queen's), 6th (Bermondsey) and 24th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (The Queen's), 7th (Southwark) battalions of the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) and joined the 5th Battalion in 131st Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), 131st Brigade.

Second World War

The 1st Battalion was serving in British Raj, British India on the outbreak of the World War II, Second World War but did not see action until 1942 against the Imperial Japanese Army. The 1st Queens fought in the Burma Campaign throughout the war as part of the 33rd Indian Infantry Brigade, 7th Indian Infantry Division, of the Fourteenth Army (United Kingdom), British Fourteenth Army under Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant General William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, William "Bill" Slim. The British Army in Burma 1945 SE4340

The 2nd Battalion, initially commanded by Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom), Lieutenant Colonel Robert Knox Ross (British Army officer), Robert Ross until April 1940, spent the early years of the war in the Middle East and Syria-Lebanon Campaign, Syria before also going out to the Far East. They were part of the 16th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), 16th Brigade, 6th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), 6th Infantry Division which was later redesignated as the 70th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), 70th Infantry Division and were involved in Chindits, Operation Thursday, the second Chindits campaign. The Chindits were the creation of Brigadier (United Kingdom), Brigadier Orde Wingate. After suffering heavy casualties in the Chindits campaign, 2nd Queen's reverted to being an ordinary infantry battalion, nicknamed PBI (Poor Bloody Infantry), and served with 29th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), 29th Infantry Brigade, part of 36th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), 36th Infantry Division from May 1945 onwards. The British Army in Italy 1943 NA7706

The 1/5th, 1/6th, and 1/7th were all 1st Line Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Territorial Army battalions that were serving in the 131st Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), 131st Infantry Brigade, which was a part of the 44th (Home Counties) Division, 44th (Home Counties) Infantry Division, a 1st Line Territorial Army division. The brigade was sent, along with the rest of the division, to France in 1940 to join the British Expeditionary Force (World War II), British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and were quickly involved in the Battle of France and subsequent Dunkirk evacuation. They arrived in England and the division was led for a while by Major-General Brian Horrocks. The division was later sent to North African Campaign, North Africa in mid-1942 to join the Eighth Army (United Kingdom), British Eighth Army and fought in the Battle of Alam el Halfa and later in the Second Battle of El Alamein where the 131st Brigade was assigned to the 7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom), 7th Armoured Division and would remain with them for the rest of the war. The brigade participated in the Tunisian Campaign, Tunisian and Italian Campaign (World War II), Italian Campaigns and the North West Europe Campaign. In December 1944, due to heavy casualties and a shortage of infantrymen in the British Army, the 1/6th and 1/7th Battalions were replaced by 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment and 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, both from the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division. The 1/6th and 1/7th would spend the rest of the war as training units with the 50th Infantry Division. Meanwhile the 1/5th were detached from 131 Brigade to 22nd Armoured Brigade mounted in Kangaroos in April 1945 for the final weeks of the war and the fighting towards Hamburg. The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H14688

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The regiment also raised the 2/5th, 2/6th, and 2/7th which were all 2nd Line Territorial Army battalions serving in the 35th Brigade (United Kingdom), 35th Infantry Brigade of the 12th (Eastern) Division, 12th (Eastern) Infantry Division, a 2nd Line Territorial Army duplicate of the 44th (Home Counties) Division. They were also sent to France in 1940 and were involved in the Battle of Dunkirk where they suffered heavy casualties due to the men having very little training. The division was disbanded shortly after returning to England and the 35th Brigade was later redesignated the 169th (3rd London) Brigade, 169th Infantry Brigade. The 169th Brigade was to serve with the 56th Division for the rest of the war in the Italian Campaign in battles at Salerno landings, Salerno, Battle of Anzio, Anzio and in the final Allied offensive in Italy, Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, Operation Grapeshot. In January 1944 Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), Lieutenant Alec George Horwood of the 1/6th Battalion was awarded the Victoria Cross whilst fighting in the Burma Campaign 1944–45, Burma Campaign whilst attached to the 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. The British Army in Italy 1943 NA10138

63rd (Queen's) Searchlight Regiment served in Anti-Aircraft Command during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, then converted into 4th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), 127th (Queen's) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery and manned Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60, Bofors guns to protect the Mulberry harbour after D-Day, and then defended Antwerp late in the war. The regiment raised many other battalions during the war, mainly for home defence or as training units. None of these units saw active service, they remained in the United Kingdom for the duration of war. They fulfilled a role of supplying the battalions overseas with trained infantrymen or were converted into other roles. For example, the 13th Battalion, raised in 1940, was assigned–in an infantry capacity–to the 80th Infantry (Reserve) Division (United Kingdom), 80th Infantry (Reserve) Division. The 14th Battalion was raised in Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester in early July 1940 commanded by Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom), Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Wilkinson. and in October the battalion was assigned to the 201st Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) and commenced anti-invasion duties. On 1 December 1941 the battalion was converted into the 99th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, and it subsequently served in Italy.

Post-war service and amalgamation

The 2nd Battalion was disbanded in 1948 and its personnel transferred to 1st Battalion (which had previously been reduced to nil strength in 1947). The 1st Battalion served in Berlin during the blockade to 1949 then Iserlohn in BAOR (British Army of the Rhine) part of 5th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom), 2nd Infantry Division (Crossed Keys) until 1953. The 1st Battalion fought the Malayan Races Liberation Army, Communist guerrillas during the Malayan Emergency from 1954 to 1957. In 1957, it returned to Germany, where, in 1959, it was amalgamated with 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, to form the 1st Battalion,

(less Territorials). When the QRSs merged into the new larger

, the battalion became the 1st (Queen's Royal Surreys) Battalion, but this subtitle was omitted on 1 July 1968. Today the regiment's successors can be traced to the 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.

Regimental museum

The Surrey Infantry Museum was based at Clandon Park House, near Guildford until it was destroyed in a fire in April 2015.

Battle honours

The regiment's battle honours were as follows: *Tangier 1662–80, Namur 1695, Ushant, Egypt, Vimiera, Corunna, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Toulouse, Peninsula, Ghuznee 1839, Khelat, 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

Victoria Cross

The following members of the Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross: * Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), Lieutenant (later Brigadier (United Kingdom), Brigadier-General) Wallace Duffield Wright, Battle of Kano, Kano-Sokoto Expedition * Captain (British Army and Royal Marines), Captain (temporary Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom), Lieutenant Colonel, later Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-General) Bernard Cyril Freyberg, Great War * Second lieutenant, 2nd Lieutenant (acting Captain) Clement Robertson, Great War * Lance corporal, Lance Corporal John William Sayer, Great War * Captain (temporary Lieutenant Colonel) Christopher Bushell, Great War * Lieutenant Alec George Horwood, Second World War

Regimental Colonels

References

Sources

* J.B.M. Frederick, ''Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978'', Volume I, 1984: Microform Academic Publishers, Wakefield, United Kingdom. . *Maj A.F. Becke,''History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2a: The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42–56)'', London: HM Stationery Office, 1935/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, . * Maj A.F. Becke,''History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home-Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions,'' London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, . * Maj A.F. Becke,''History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 3a: New Army Divisions (9–26)'', London: HM Stationery Office, 1938/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, . * Maj A.F. Becke,''History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 3b: New Army Divisions (30–41) and 63rd (R.N.) Division'', London: HM Stationery Office, 1939/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, . * Ian F.W. Beckett, ''Riflemen Form: A study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859–1908'', Aldershot: Ogilby Trusts, 1982, . * * Col John K. Dunlop, ''The Development of the British Army 1899–1914'', London: Methuen, 1938. * Gen Sir Martin Farndale, ''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: The Years of Defeat: Europe and North Africa, 1939–1941'', Woolwich: Royal Artillery Institution, 1988/London: Brasseys, 1996, . * Jock Haswell, ''Famous Regiments Series: The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (The 2nd Regiment of Foot)'', London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967. * * N.B. Leslie, ''Battle Honours of the British and Indian Armies 1695–1914'', London: Leo Cooper, 1970, . * Brig N.W. Routledge, ''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Anti-Aircraft Artillery 1914–55'', London: Royal Artillery Institution/Brassey's, 1994, . * Edward M. Spiers, ''The Army and Society 1815–1914'', London: Longmans, 1980, . * Ray Westlake, ''British Regiments at Gallipoli'', Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1996, . * Ray Westlake, ''Tracing the Rifle Volunteers'', Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2010, .

External links

The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment
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The Queen's Royal Regiment Living History GroupQueen's Royal West Surrey Regiment Re-enactment Society
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The World War One Letters of Major Hugh J.C. Peirs, 8th Battalion, The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment

Stepping Forward: A Tribute to the Volunteer Military Reservists and Supporting Auxiliaries of Greater London
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