2nd Regiment of Foot

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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. Volume 7 covers the period of the early 1900s in India.

External Links

Regimental Timeline www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
Tangier Regiment Wikipedia
Old Tangier Regiment (Kirke's Lambs) www.kipar.org
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 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

Historical Books Online