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Authors
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T.F.
Mills |
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created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
14.07.2006
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1661.10.01 |
Earl of Peterborough's
Regiment of Foot
also known as the Tangier
Regiment; also known until 1751 by names of other colonels |
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1663 |
absorbed
Sir Robert Harley's Regiment of Foot, and Lord Rutherford's
Regiment of Foot |
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1685 |
Queen Dowager's
Regiment of Foot
(named for Queen
Catherine, widow of Charles II) |
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1703 |
The Queen's
Royal Regiment of Foot |
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1715 |
The Princess
of Wales's Own Regiment of Foot
(re-named for the future Queen
Caroline) |
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1727 |
The Queen's
Own Regiment of Foot
(redesignated when the Princess of Wales became
Queen) |
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1747 |
The Queen's
Own Royal Regiment of Foot
ranked as 2nd Foot |
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1751.07.01 |
2nd (The Queen's
Royal) Regiment of Foot |
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1881.07.01 |
The Queen's
(Royal West Surrey Regiment)
reorganised as the county regiment of West Surrey,
encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] |
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1889 |
parts
of Essex absorbed into new County of London |
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1908.04.01 |
3rd
Vol Bn and 4th Vol Bn
transferred to The London
Regiment upon creation of T.F. |
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1916.07.07 |
22nd
Bn
and 24th Bn of The
London Regiment re-affiliated |
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1921.01.01 |
The Queen's
Royal Regiment (West Surrey) |
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1959.10.14 |
amalgamated
with The East Surrey Regiment,
to form The Queen's Royal
Surrey Regiment |
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History
of The Queen's Royal Regiment, by F.A. Mason. |
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Kirke's
Lambs: History and Origins, by Ben Levick (L'Âge d'Or
and Kirke's Lambs) |
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The
2nd (Queen's) and the Napoleonic Wars, by Jon Holmes. |
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The
Queen's Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great
War). |
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The
Queen's Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath
1914-1918) |
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The
Queen's Regiment (Royal West Surreys) 1914-18, by Paul Reed |
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RHQ and
Depot: |
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? Depot Battalion
[1856-1871]
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48th Brigade
Depot, at Guildford [1873-1881] |
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2nd Regimental
District at Guildford [1881-1905] |
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Home Counties Grouped Regimental District,
at Hounslow [1905-1907] |
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No. 10 District, at Hounslow [1907-1921] |
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South East Area, at Hounslow [1921-1946] |
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C Group,
at Shorncliffe [1946-1948] |
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Home
Counties Brigade, at Canterbury [1948-1959] |
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Regulars: |
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1st
Battalion [1661-1959] |
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2nd
Battalion [1663-16??, 1794-1797, 1857-1948] |
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Militia
and Special Reserve: |
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3rd Battalion (2nd Royal Surrey
Regiment of Militia) [1881-1953] |
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Territorials
and Volunteers: |
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1st
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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2nd
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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3rd
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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4th
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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4th
Battalion [1908-1940] |
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5th
Battalion [1908-1961] |
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6th
(Bermondsey) Battalion [1937-1961] |
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7th
(Southwark) Battalion [1937-1947] |
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22nd
London Regiment [1916-1937] |
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24th
London Regiment [1916-1937] |
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Hostilities-Only
Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
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2/4th Battalion [1914-1915]
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2/4th Battalion [1915-1919]
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3/4th Battalion [1915-1918]
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4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
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2/5th Battalion [1914-1917]
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5th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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2/5th Battalion [1939-1946]
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6th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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9th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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10th (Battersea) (Service) Battalion
[1915-1920]
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11th (Lambeth) (Service) Battalion
[1915-1920]
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11th (Home Defence) Battalion
[1939-1940]
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12th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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13th (Labour) Battalion [1916-1917]
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14th (Labour) Battalion [1916-1917]
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14th Battalion [1940-1941]
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15th (Labour) Battalion [1916-1917]
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15th Battalion [1940-1943]
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16th (Home Service) Battalion
[1916-1919]
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17th (Labour) Battalion [1916-1917]
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18th (Labour) Battalion [1916-1917]
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19th Battalion [1917-1919]
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20th (Service) Battalion [1918-1918]
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20th Battalion [1940-1940]
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30th Battalion [1943-1945]
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31st Battalion [1941-1946]
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50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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51st (Service) Battalion [1917-1919]
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52nd (Service) Battalion [1917-1919]
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53rd (Service) Battalion [1917-1919]
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70th (Young Soldier) Battalion
[1940-1942]
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No. 1 Independent Company [1940-1943]
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No. 2 Independent Company [1940-1943]
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71st Independent Company [1943-1945]
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Cadets:
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1st Cadet Battalion [1890- ] |
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2nd Cadet Battalion [1890-1894] |
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2nd Cadet Battalion [1901-1908] |
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Tangier
1662-80, Namur
1695, [Ushant]1,
[Egypt]2,
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
6th Battalion: see 22nd
London Regiment
7th Battalion: see 24th
London Regiment
1. the Naval
Crown badge superscribed "1st June 1794".
2. the Sphinx badge superscribed "Egypt".
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
?-1748:
scarlet; facings: sea green
1748-1953: scarlet; facings: blue
1953-1959: blue; facings: blue; piping:
scarlet
headdress:
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1661.09.30 |
Col. Henry (Mordaunt), 2nd Earl of Peterborough,
KG [also 3rd Horse;
Capt. Gen. Tangier] |
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1663.04.09 |
Col. Andrew (Rutherford), 1st Earl of Teviot
[killed at Tangier] |
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1664.06.10 |
Lt-Gen. Henry Norwood |
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1668.05.15 |
Lt-Gen. John (Middleton), 1st Earl of Middleton |
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1675.03.05 |
Col. William (O'Brien), 2nd Earl of Inchiquin |
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1680.11.10 |
Col. Sir Palmes Fairbourne [d.
of wounds at Tangier] |
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1682.04.19 |
Lt-Gen. Piercy Kirke (senior)
[also 4th Foot] |
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1691.12.18 |
Maj-Gen. William Selwyn
[also 22nd Foot] |
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1701.06.28 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Bellasis
[also 6th Foot, 22nd
Foot] |
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1703.02.27 |
Gen. Sir David (Colyear), 1st Earl of Portmore,
KT [also 2nd Dgns,
Portmore's Foot]
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1710.09.19 |
Lt-Gen. Piercy Kirke (junior) |
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1741.08.12 |
Lt-Gen. Thomas Fowke [also
14th Foot, 43rd Foot] |
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1755.11.12 |
Gen. Hon. John Fitzwilliam
[also 2nd Horse] |
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1760.11.27 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Charles Montagu, KB
[also 59th Foot] |
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1777.08.07 |
Lt-Gen. Daniel Jones |
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1793.11.20 |
Maj-Gen. Alexander Stewart |
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1794.12.20 |
Gen. James Coates |
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1822.07.26 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Henry Torrens, KCB [also
2nd West India Regt; AG 1820-28] |
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1828.08.25 |
Gen. Sir William Keppel, GCB
[also 1st Bn 60th Foot, 67th
Foot, 3rd West India
Regt] |
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1834.12.23 |
Gen. Sir James Kempt, GCB, GCH
[also 1st Foot, 40th
Foot, 8th Bn 60th Foot, 81st
Foot, 3rd West India
Regt; MGO 1830-34; Gov. Gen. Canada 1828-30] |
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1846.08.07 |
Lt-Gen. Alexander George (Fraser), 16th
Lord Saltoun, KT, KCB, GCH [also 55th Foot] |
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1853.08.29 |
Lt-Gen. Sir John Rolt, KCB, KH |
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1856.11.09 |
Lt-Gen. Sir James Holmes Schoedde, KCB [also
55th Foot] |
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1857.05.28 |
Maj-Gen. John Spink, KH |
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1877.03.15 |
Gen. Clement Alexander Edwards, CB [also
18th Foot] |
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1877.03.25 |
Gen. Henry Smyth, CB |
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1891.06.06 |
Gen. Robert Bruce [also
E York Regt] |
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1891.10.15 |
Lt-Gen. Frederick Green Wilkinson, CB [also
OBLI] |
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1893.08.29 |
Gen. Sir Edward Selby Smyth, KCMG [also
Seaforth Hldrs] |
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1896.09.23 |
Lt-Gen. Granville George Chetwynd-Stapylton
[also DCLI] |
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1902.04.16 |
Gen. Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny, GCB, GCVO [AG
1901-04] |
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1914.12.07 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Edward Owen Fisher Hamilton,
KCB |
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1920.10.13 |
Gen. Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, Bt.,
GCB, GSI, GCMG [C-in-C] |
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1929.12.07 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Wilkinson Dent Bird, KBE, CB,
CMG, DSO |
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1939.05.04 |
Gen. Sir Ivo Lucius Beresford Vesey, KCB,
KBE, CMG, DSO |
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1945.05.01 |
Gen. Sir George James Giffard, GCB, DSO
[also Col. Cmdt. RWAFF,
KAR, N
Rhodesia Regt] |
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1954.09.28 |
Maj-Gen. John Yeldham Whitfield, CB, DSO,
OBE [to 1959] |
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Motto: |
Pristinae virtutis
memor; Vel exuviae triumphans |
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Nicknames: |
Kirke's Lambs |
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Anniversaries: |
Glorious
First of June, Salerno
(9 Sept.) |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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Regimental
Journal: |
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The journal of the Queen's Royal Regiment.
Semiannual. [Worplesdon] |
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Full Histories:
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Haswell, Jock. The Queen's Royal
Regiment (West Surrey) (The 2nd Regiment of Foot). London
: Hamish Hamilton, 1967. (Famous regiments) |
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Davis, John. The history of the second,
Queen's Royal Regiment, now The Queen's - Royal West Surrey - Regiment
... Vol. I. The English occupation of Tangiers. From 1661 to 1684.
London : Bentley & Son, 1887. |
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Davis, John. History of the 2nd Queen's
Royal Regiment, now The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Vol.
2, [details unknown] . London : Bentley & Son, |
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Davis, John. History of the 2nd Queen's
Royal Regiment, now The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Vol.
3, From 1715 to 1799. London : Bentley & Son, 1895. |
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Davis, John. History of the 2nd Queen's
Royal Regiment, now The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Vol.
4, [details unknown] . London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1902. |
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Davis, John. History of the 2nd Queen's
Royal Regiment, now The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Vol.
5, [details unknown] . London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, |
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Davis, John. The history of the second,
Queen's Royal Regiment, now The Queen's - Royal West Surrey - Regiment
... Vol. 6. Officers' services, 1661-1904. London : Eyre &
Spottiswoode, 1906. |
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Wylly, H.C. (Harold Carmichael). History
of the Queen's Royal Regiment. Vol. 7. Aldershot : Gale &
Polden, 1925. |
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Foster, R.C.G. History of the Queen's
Royal Regiment. Vol. 8, 1924-1948. Aldershot : Gale &
Polden, 1953. |
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Foster, R.C.G. History of the Queen's
Royal Regiment. Vol. 9, Part 1, 1948-1959; Part 2, Summary, 1661-1959.
Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1961. |
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Short Histories:
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record
of the second, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot; containing an account
of the formation of the Regiment in the year 1661, and of its subsequent
services to 1837. London : Printed by Clowes and Sons, 1838.
(Historical records of the British Army) |
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Memorials of the principal events
in the campaigns in North Holland and Egypt. London, 1886. |
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Some notes on The Queen's Royal West
Surrey Regiment, together with an account of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions
in the late South African campaign, and Guildford's aid to the troops
during peace and war. Guildford : Frank Lasham, 1904. |
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Burkitt, H.J. The history of The Queen's
(Royal West Surrey Regiment). Guildford : A.C. Curtis, 1917. |
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A short history of The Queen's Royal
Regiment. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1939. |
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A short history of The Queen's Royal
Regiment. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1953. |
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The Queen's Royal Regiment.
London : M. Page, 1952. |
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Militia:
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Davis, John. Historical records of
the Second Royal Surrey : or Eleventh Regiment of Militia.
London : Marcus Ward, 1877. |
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First World War:
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Coppard, George. With a machine gun
to Cambrai. [Revised and enlarged ed.]. London : Imperial
War Museum, 1980. ISBN: 0901627119 [6th Battalion] |
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Neave, E.W.J. History of the 11th
Battalion, 'The Queen's'. London : Brixton Free Press, 1931. |
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Second World War:
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Operations of the 1st and 2nd Battalions
The Queen's Royal Regiment in Burma during World War Two.
[Guildford?] : [Queen's Royal Regiment Museum?], 1985. |
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Operations of the 1st and 2nd Battalions
The Queen's Royal Regiment in Burma during World War Two.
2nd ed. [Guildford?] : [Queen's Royal Regiment Museum?], 1991. |
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Lowry, M.A. An infantry company in
Arakan and Kohima. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1950. [B
Coy, 1st Battalion] |
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