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The Queen's
Royal Regiment
(West Surrey) |
crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
United
Kingdom
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| How to find information about individuals who served in this corps |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 1908.04.01 | 3rd Vol Bn and 4th Vol Bn transferred to The London Regiment upon creation of T.F. | |
| 1916.07.07 | 22nd Bn and 24th Bn of The London Regiment re-affiliated | |
| 1921.01.01 | The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) | |
| 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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? Depot Battalion
[1856-1871] 
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| 48th Brigade Depot, at Guildford [1873-1881] | ||
| 2nd Regimental District at Guildford [1881-1905] | ||
| Home Counties Grouped Regimental District, at Hounslow [1905-1907] | ||
| No. 10 District, at Hounslow [1907-1921] | ||
| South East Area, at Hounslow [1921-1946] | ||
| C Group, at Shorncliffe [1946-1948] | ||
| Home Counties Brigade, at Canterbury [1948-1959] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1661-1959] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1663-16??, 1794-1797, 1857-1948] | ||
| Militia and Special Reserve: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (2nd Royal Surrey
Regiment of Militia) [1881-1953] |
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| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
| 1st Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 2nd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 3rd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 4th Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1908-1940] | ||
| 5th Battalion [1908-1961] | ||
| 6th (Bermondsey) Battalion [1937-1961] | ||
| 7th (Southwark) Battalion [1937-1947] | ||
| 22nd London Regiment [1916-1937] | ||
| 24th London Regiment [1916-1937] | ||
| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 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- ] | ||
| 2nd Cadet Battalion [1890-1894] | ||
| 2nd Cadet Battalion [1901-1908] | ||
| 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 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 1. the Naval
Crown badge superscribed "1st June 1794". |
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Regimental Colours, 17th century, by Ben Levick (L'Âge d'Or and Kirke's Lambs) | |
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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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| 1937.05.12 | HM Queen Mary | |
| 1661.09.30 | Col. Henry (Mordaunt), 2nd Earl of Peterborough, KG [also 3rd Horse; Capt. Gen. Tangier] | |
| 1663.04.09 | Col. Andrew (Rutherford), 1st Earl of Teviot [killed at Tangier] | |
| 1664.06.10 | Lt-Gen. Henry Norwood | |
| 1668.05.15 | Lt-Gen. John (Middleton), 1st Earl of Middleton | |
| 1675.03.05 | Col. William (O'Brien), 2nd Earl of Inchiquin | |
| 1680.11.10 | Col. Sir Palmes Fairbourne [d. of wounds at Tangier] | |
| 1682.04.19 | Lt-Gen. Piercy Kirke (senior) [also 4th Foot] | |
| 1691.12.18 | Maj-Gen. William Selwyn [also 22nd Foot] | |
| 1701.06.28 | Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Bellasis [also 6th Foot, 22nd Foot] | |
| 1703.02.27 | Gen. Sir David (Colyear), 1st Earl of Portmore, KT [also 2nd Dgns, Portmore's Foot] | |
| 1710.09.19 | Lt-Gen. Piercy Kirke (junior) | |
| 1741.08.12 | Lt-Gen. Thomas Fowke [also 14th Foot, 43rd Foot] | |
| 1755.11.12 | Gen. Hon. John Fitzwilliam [also 2nd Horse] | |
| 1760.11.27 | Lt-Gen. Sir Charles Montagu, KB [also 59th Foot] | |
| 1777.08.07 | Lt-Gen. Daniel Jones | |
| 1793.11.20 | Maj-Gen. Alexander Stewart | |
| 1794.12.20 | Gen. James Coates | |
| 1822.07.26 | Maj-Gen. Sir Henry Torrens, KCB [also 2nd West India Regt; AG 1820-28] | |
| 1828.08.25 | Gen. Sir William Keppel, GCB [also 1st Bn 60th Foot, 67th Foot, 3rd West India Regt] | |
| 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] | |
| 1846.08.07 | Lt-Gen. Alexander George (Fraser), 16th Lord Saltoun, KT, KCB, GCH [also 55th Foot] | |
| 1853.08.29 | Lt-Gen. Sir John Rolt, KCB, KH | |
| 1856.11.09 | Lt-Gen. Sir James Holmes Schoedde, KCB [also 55th Foot] | |
| 1857.05.28 | Maj-Gen. John Spink, KH | |
| 1877.03.15 | Gen. Clement Alexander Edwards, CB [also 18th Foot] | |
| 1877.03.25 | Gen. Henry Smyth, CB | |
| 1891.06.06 | Gen. Robert Bruce [also E York Regt] | |
| 1891.10.15 | Lt-Gen. Frederick Green Wilkinson, CB [also OBLI] | |
| 1893.08.29 | Gen. Sir Edward Selby Smyth, KCMG [also Seaforth Hldrs] | |
| 1896.09.23 | Lt-Gen. Granville George Chetwynd-Stapylton [also DCLI] | |
| 1902.04.16 | Gen. Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny, GCB, GCVO [AG 1901-04] | |
| 1914.12.07 | Maj-Gen. Sir Edward Owen Fisher Hamilton, KCB | |
| 1920.10.13 | Gen. Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, Bt., GCB, GSI, GCMG [C-in-C] | |
| 1929.12.07 | Maj-Gen. Sir Wilkinson Dent Bird, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO | |
| 1939.05.04 | Gen. Sir Ivo Lucius Beresford Vesey, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO | |
| 1945.05.01 | Gen. Sir George James Giffard, GCB, DSO [also Col. Cmdt. RWAFF, KAR, N Rhodesia Regt] | |
| 1954.09.28 | Maj-Gen. John Yeldham Whitfield, CB, DSO, OBE [to 1959] | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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VCs in the Queen's Royal Surrey Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
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Officers, 1664-1889, by Ben Levick (L'Âge d'Or and Kirke's Lambs) | |
| Motto: | Pristinae virtutis memor; Vel exuviae triumphans | ||
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| Nicknames: | Kirke's Lambs | ||
| Anniversaries: | Glorious First of June, Salerno (9 Sept.) | ||
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The Queen's Rangers (1st American Regiment) |
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The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) | 1936-1959 | |
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2nd Infantry Battalion (The City of Newcastle Regiment) | 1929-1959 | |
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The Northern Rhodesia Regiment | ||
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The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Association | |
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L'Age d'Or and Kirke's Lambs [17th century], by Ben Levick. | |
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The 2nd (Queen's) Regiment of Foot [Napoleonic Association; Surrey], by Jon Holmes. | |
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The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Museum, Guildford (Regimental Association site) | |
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The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Museum, Guildford (Surrey Online) | |
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The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Museum, Guildford (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Museum, Dover (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Museum, Dover (Simonides listing) | |
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The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Museum, Guildford (Simonides listing) | |
| Regimental Journal: | ||
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The journal of the Queen's Royal Regiment. Semiannual. [Worplesdon] | |
| 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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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] | |
