2nd Regiment of Foot

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
Regimental history allthequeensmen.co.uk
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
Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment Re-enactment Society including History

Historical Books Online

• Historical record of the Second, or Queen’s Royal Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1661, and of its subsequent services to 1837 Google Books 1838 Indian Service commences page 70 in Bombay in 1825
• Campaign of the Indus, a series of letters from an officer of the Bombay division by T.W.E. Holdsworth 1840 Google Books. The author was an officer with the 2nd Regiment, or Queen's Royals.
• "Historical [Medical] Report of H. M. 2nd or Queen's Royal Regiment,for the year 1836" by R. H. Hunter, page 226 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume I 1838 Google Books
• Cases of Cardiac Disease and of Tubercular Phthisis occurring in H.M. 2nd or Queen's Royal Regiment by R. H. Hunter, page 239 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume I 1838
• "Annual Report of the Diseases of H. M.'s 2nd, or Queen's Royal Regiment, from the 1st of April, 1837, to the 31st of March, 1838" by R. H. Hunter, Assistant Surgeon, H.M.'s 2nd Regiment, page 22 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume II 1839 Google Books