70th Regiment of Foot

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Chronology

  • 1758 second battalion of the 31st Regiment of Foot became 70th (Glasgow Lowland) Regiment of Foot
  • 1825 became 70th (The Surrey) Regiment
  • 1881 amalgamated with 31st Regiment of Foot and became 2nd Bn the East Surrey Regiment
  • 1959 amalgamated with Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) to form the The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment.
  • 1966 amalgamated to become 1st Battalion The Queen's Regiment

External links

70th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment from queensroyalsurreys.org.uk including Regimental Timeline and Regimental India 1825-1947 (2nd, 31st, 70th Regiments of Foot)

Historical Books Online

Historical Record of the Seventieth, or the Surrey Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1848 by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books . In 1848, at the end of the book, the Regiment had been ordered to proceed to Bengal

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