70th Regiment of Foot
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
Regimental Timeline www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
Regimental Timeline www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
70th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment from queensroyalsurreys.org.uk including 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