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

Regimental journal

The British Library has the following catalogue references:
Regimental News no. 5-vol. 2. no. 40. August 1920-May 1929.
The Journal of the East Surrey Regiment. vol. 2. no. 41-vol. 3. no. 68. August 1929-May 1936. and [New series.] vol. 1. no. 1-vol. 8. no. 5. November 1936-October 1959. Not published between May 1939 and November 1946.

Also available at the Surrey History Centre, refer below.

External links

• 70th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
  
• The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment from queensroyalsurreys.org.uk including
  • Regimental Timeline
  • Regimental India 1825-1947 (2nd, 31st, 70th Regiments of Foot)
  • 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: ESR East Surrey Regiment, formerly The 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment and 70th (Surrey) Regiment: Records
    • For the Journal of the East Surrey Regiment, 1920-1959, see J/553 in Surrey History Centre's library holdings
    • The bibliography (scroll down) mentions the main regimental history

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