East Surrey Regiment

Chronology

1881 the 31st Regiment of Foot and the 70th Regiment of Foot amalgamated to become The East Surrey Regiment
1959 merged with The Queen's Royal Regiment to form The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment
1966 amalgamated with The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Sussex Regiment & The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) to form The Queen's Regiment
1992 amalgamated with The Royal Hampshire Regiment to become The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

Photo of a memorial in St George's Cathedral, Agra to NCOs & Men of 6th Battalion East Surrey Regiment who died in India 1914 - 1919. A list of names is included.

The Regimental museum and the Archive holding many of the Regimental records are both within the catchment area of West Surrey Family History Society being at Clandon Park, and Woking, respectively.

31st Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
70th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
East Surrey Regiment 1900-14 www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
East Surrey Regiment 1914-18 www.1914-1918.net
East Surrey Regiment 1919-39 www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
Queen's Royal Surrey regiment including Regimental India 1825-1947 queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
Queen's Regiment Wikipedia
Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Wikipedia
The East Surrey Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
1/5th Battalion and 1/6th Battalion East Surrey Regiment, part of the Territorial Force, were in India most of World War 1, landing at Bombay 2 December 1914. "The Long, Long Trail"
- FIBIS Gallery Collection of photographs taken by and owned by Arthur Cecil Gregory who served in the 5th Battalion East Surrey Regiment in various parts of India during WW1.