The Queen's Regiment
1946 - 1950
1946
  The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
  1st Battalion
  Bangkok.
September
 Moves to Penang, Malaya.
  2nd Battalion
  Poona, India.
February
 Internal security duties in Bombay.
March
 Poona.
 
Territorial Army
  1st/5th Battalion
Occupation of Berlin.
15th March
Disbanded.
  1st/6th Battalion
Lebanon.
June
 Palestine. Joins 6th Airborne Division.
  1st/7th Battalion
15th January
 Disbanded.
  169 (Queen’s) Brigade (2nd/5th, 2nd/6th and 2nd/7th Battalions)
February
 Moves to Pola.
March - April
 Disbanded.
 
Home Defence Battalions
  31st Battalion
15th May
 Disbanded.

 

King's Colour

  
Regimental Colour

1947
  Home Counties Training Group formed at Shorncliffe.

Home Counties Brigade arm flash.
  The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
  1st Battalion
10th July
 Singapore. The hundred year Colours of the 1st Battalion were trooped for the last time on 10th July 1947 at Singapore. A stand of new colours was presented by the Hon. PAB McKerron CMG.
29th December
Battalion reduced to Cadre. Manpower posted to other units; cadre embarks for England.
  2nd Battalion
17th January
Embarks for England and moves to Crowborough.
10th May
Moves to Dortmond, Germany. Occupation of the Ruhr.
Op Woodpecker.
 
Territorial Army
  4th Battalion
Reconstituted as 598 LAA Regiment RA (Queen’s).
  5th Battalion
1st January
Reconstituted at Guildford.
  1st/6th Battalion
February
 Disbanded.
  6th Battalion
May
 Reconstituted at Bermondsey.
  7th Battalion
1st January
Reconstituted as 622 HAA Regiment RA (7th Battalion The Queen’s Royal Regiment).

 

1948
  The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
  1st Battalion (2nd Foot) (Cadre)
Depot Guildford.
9th September
Re-formed in Berlin from disbanded 2nd Battalion.
  2nd Battalion (2nd Foot)
7th June
Moves to Dortmund then Berlin.
Present throughout the Berlin Airlift.

Spandau Prison Guard, 1st Bn The Queen's Royal Regiment assuming guard duties from the Americans, 1st May 1949.

1949
  The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
  1st Battalion
Berlin.
November
 Moves to Iserlohn, West Germany. Joins 5 Infantry Brigade (2nd Division).

 

1950
  The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
  1st Battalion
  Iserlohn, West Germany.
August
 One company to 1st Middlesex in Korea, became C Company 1st BN The Middesex Regiment (DCO).
 
Territorial Army
  598 LAA Regiment
  Redesignated as 598 LAA Regiment RA (4th Battalion The Queen’s Royal Regiment).

 

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