Whereabouts Of Colours - The Queen's Royal Regiment

Whereabouts Of Colours

The Queen's Royal Regiment

1^st Battalion The Queen’s Royal Regiment

Presented	Retired	Whereabouts
Tangier (not known)	not known	Not preserved
1686	1751	Not preserved, except Colonel’s Colour at Kilmainham
1751 (Green facings)	1768	Not preserved
1768 (Blue facings)	1772	Not preserved
1772	1806	Regimental Museum
1806	1820	Reduced to rags in the Peninsula
1820	1847	Reduced to rags in Afghanistan
1847	1947	Regimental Museum
1947	1960	Guildford Cathedral

2^nd Battalion The Queen’s Royal Regiment

Presented	Retired	Whereabouts
1859	1948	Guildford Cathedral

Third Colour of The Queen’s

Presented	Retired	Whereabouts
1686 (Donkin)	1750	Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, and re-worked into Torrens Colour.
1825 (Torrens)	1854	Centre used for Burns Colour, remainder not preserved
1853 (Burns)	1893	Regimental Museum
1894 (1^st Malta)	1930	Regimental Museum
1930 (2^nd Malta)	1977	Regimental Museum
1977 (Davidson)	In Service	In Service

2^nd Royal Surrey Militia/3^rd (Special Reserve) Battalion

Presented	Retired	Whereabouts
1759	1798	Not preserved
1798	1841	Destroyed by fire
1854	1953	Regimental Museum

Territorial Battalions

Battalion	Presented	Retired	Whereabouts
4^th	1909	1938	Croydon Parish Church
4^th	1938	1964	Croydon Parish Church
5^th	1926	1964	Regimental Museum
22^nd London and 6^th	1909	1964	Bermondsey Parish Church
24^th London and 7^th	1909	1961	St Mary’s, Newington

Service Battalions

Battalion	Presented	Retired	Whereabouts
6^th	1919	1920	Holy Trinity, Guildford, and later Regimental Museum
7^th	1919	1920	Holy Trinity, Guildford, and later Regimental Museum
8^th	1919	1920	Holy Trinity, Guildford, and later Regimental Museum
10^th (Battersea)	1919	1920	St Mary’s, Battersea, and later Regimental Museum
11^th (Lambeth)	1919	1921	Lambeth Town Hall
2^nd/4^th	1919	1920	Croydon Town Hall
3^rd/4^th	1919	1920	Croydon Parish Church
2^nd/22^nd London	1921	1921	Bermondsey initially, now not known
2^nd/24^th London	1919	1920	Not known

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