2nd Regiment of Foot

Also known as Queen's Own Regiment and Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment

Chronology

• 1661 raised as Tangier Regiment of Foot by Earl of Peterborough
  
• 1685 became Queen Dowager's Regiment of Foot known as Kirke's Lambs
• 1703 renamed the Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot
• 1715 became Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Foot
• 1725 became Queen's Own Regiment of Foot
• 1747 became Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Foot
• 1751 became 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 became Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
• 1921 became Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
• 1948 became part of the Home Counties Brigade
• 1959 became 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment by amalgamation with the East Surrey Regiment
• 1966 amalgamated to form 1st Battalion (Queen's Surreys), The Queen's Regiment
• 1992 became part of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

Service in British India

1st Battalion alternated with		2nd Battalion
1801 Egypt		1878 India
1825 India		1881 Bengal
1838 Baluchistan		1883 Subathu
1839 1st Afghan War		1885 Cawnpore
1844 Maratha		1886 Burma
1868 India		1888 Umballa
1895 Dagshai		1892 Dinapore
1897 Tirah		1919 Delhi
1902 Peshawar		1921 Landi Kotal
1902 Meerut		1923 Allahabad
1906 Sialkot		1943 India
1934 Quetta		1944 Burma
1936 Allahabad
1943 Burma

History

The British Library has a nine volume history in its collection

The History of the Second, Queen’s Royal Regiment, now the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment by Lieut.-Colonel John Davis ... With maps and illustrations. (Volume 7. Compiled by Colonel H. C. Wylly.-Volumes 8, 9. Compiled by Major R. C. G. Foster. Published 1887-1961. For details of these volumes, see the Bibliography section in this link (scroll down)

Volumes 1-7 are available online, refer below.

Regimental journal

The Journal of the Queen's Royal Regiment Volume no. 1.-Volume 12. no. 1. November 1925-October 1959. Not published between May 1939 and May 1948. Available at the British Library and the Surrey History Centre (refer below). The National Army Museum, according to its online catalogue holds Volumes 1-7.

First World War

1/4th Battalion: 29 October 1914 : to India, remaining there throughout the war.

1/5th Battalion: 29 October 1914 : to India, remaining there until December 1915 when moved to Mesopotamia, where they remained throughout the war. Note that there was at least one death in India, at Murree, of a soldier who died there in 1916 from pneumonia.

External links

• Regimental Timeline www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
  
• Tangier Regiment Wikipedia
  
• Kirke & the Lambs in Somerset Google Books
  
• Col Percy Kirke Wikipedia
  
• Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) Wikipedia
  
• Home Counties Brigade Wikipedia
  
• Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Wikipedia
  
• The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment from queensroyalsurreys.org. uk including
  • Regimental India 1825-1947 (2nd, 31st, 70th Regiments of Foot)
  • The Regiments in China and Hong Kong 1860 - 1935
  • Surrey Infantry Museum at Clandon Park
    
• The regimental collection of historic documents, books and photograph albums may be found at the Surrey History Centre.
  • System ID: QRWS The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), formerly The 2nd Foot: Records
    • For the Journal of the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), 1925-1959, see J/442 in Surrey History Centre's library holdings.
• The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
  
• Queen's Regiment Wikipedia
  
• Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Wikipedia
  
• Paul Reed’s The Queen's Regiment 1914-18 lists Territorial troops in India
  
• David Balcombe: A British Soldier in India 1915 East Carolina University. He was in the 1st Battalion, 4th Queen’s West Surrey Territorial Regiment
  
• West Surrey Family History Society
  
• Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment Re-enactment Society including History

Historical books online

• Historical record of the Second, or Queen’s Royal Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1661, and of its subsequent services to 1837 Google Books 1838 Indian Service commences page 70 in Bombay in 1825
• The History of the Second, Queen's Royal Regiment, now the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, Volumes 1-3 [1661-1799] by Lieut.- Colonel John Davis, published 1887 and 1895. Archive.org

The History Of The Second Queen's Regiment Vol 4 1800-1837 by Colonel John Davis Archive.org.

The History of the Second, Queen's Royal Regiment, now the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, Volume 5 1837- 1905. Also Volume 6 Officers’ Services 1661-1904 by Colonel John Davis 1906. Archive.org

History of the Queen’s Royal Regiment Volume 7 [1905- 1923] by Colonel H C Wylly c 1925 Archive.org.

• Campaign of the Indus, a series of letters from an officer of the Bombay division by T.W.E. Holdsworth 1840 Google Books. The author was an officer with the 2nd Regiment, or Queen's Royals.
• "Historical [Medical] Report of H. M. 2nd or Queen's Royal Regiment,for the year 1836" by R. H. Hunter, page 226 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume I 1838 Google Books
• Cases of Cardiac Disease and of Tubercular Phthisis occurring in H.M. 2nd or Queen's Royal Regiment by R. H. Hunter, page 239 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume I 1838
• "Annual Report of the Diseases of H. M.'s 2nd, or Queen's Royal Regiment, from the 1st of April, 1837, to the 31st of March, 1838" by R. H. Hunter, Assistant Surgeon, H.M.'s 2nd Regiment, page 22 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume II 1839 Google Books
• Typescript diary formed of extracts from letters by Surgeon Captain Alfred E. Master, Army Medical Service, re campaigning with the Queens Regiment against the Afridi tribes on the North-West Frontier of India (The Tirah Campaign). Wellcome Library Digital Collection, catalogue reference RAMC/185.