Regimental Timeline

The Queen's Regiment

1981-1991

1981
  The Queen’s Regiment
 

1st Battalion

 

Belize.

April

Returns to Canterbury.

Territorial Army

 

6th/7th Battalion

16th July

Presentation of new Colours at Ardingly, West Sussex, by Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk.

 

1982
The Falklands War
  The Queen’s Regiment
 

1st Battalion

 

Canterbury. One company to Gibraltar.

July

Runs Army Rifle Championships at Bisley.

November

Moves to Omagh, Northern Ireland, for internal security operations. Joins 8 Infantry Brigade.

 

1983
  The Queen’s Regiment
 

1st Battalion

 

Omagh, Northen Ireland.

 

1984
  The Queen’s Regiment
 

1st Battalion

 

Omagh, Northern Ireland.

31st March

Band lost; subsumed into Regimental Bands of The Queen’s Regiment; formation parade at Londonderry. (Albuhera and Quebec Bands).

 

1985
  The Queen’s Regiment
 

1st Battalion

 

Omagh, Northern Ireland.

1st April

Moves to Gibraltar.

 

1986
  The Queen’s Regiment
 

1st Battalion

 

Gibraltar.

Territorial Army

 

5th (Volunteer) Battalion

 

Kingston platoon of A Company transferred to 6th/7th Battalion.

 

6th/7th (Volunteer) Battalion

 

New B Company raised at Brighton; existing B Company at Edgware transferred to 8th Battalion; Camberwell platoon of D Company raised to Company strength and transferred to 8th Battalion. Kingston platoon of A Coy 5th Queen’s transferred to D Company, and Cobham re-opened. Battalion deployment now Bn HQ and HQ Company, Horsham; A Company, Farnham; B Company, Brighton; C Company, Crawley; D Company, Sutton, Cobham and Kingston.

 

6th/7th (Volunteer) Battalion

1st April

Battalion formed with Bn HQ and HQ Company at Clapham; A Company at Camberwell; B Company at Edgware; C Company at Balham.

 

1987
  The Queen’s Regiment
 

1st Battalion

 

Gibraltar.

January

Moves to Tidworth, England. Joins 1 Infantry Brigade (UK Mobile Force).

June

Moves to South Armagh, Northern Ireland, for internal security operations.

October

Returns to Tidworth.


This Display was designed for the visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to Dover Castle in 1988. It continues in use with The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.


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1988
  The Queen’s Regiment
 

1st Battalion

 

Tidworth.

September

Queen Margrethe II visits the battalion whilst on exercise in Denmark.

December

Queen Margrethe II again visits the battalion, in Tidworth.

 

1989
  The Queen’s Regiment
 

1st Battalion

 

Tidworth and USA.

October

Moves to Belfast for internal security operations.

 

1990
The Gulf War
  The Queen’s Regiment
 

1st Battalion

February

Returns to Tidworth.

 

1991
The Gulf War
  The Queen’s Regiment

General

 

Options for Change Defence Review.

 

1st Battalion

January

Moves to Minden, West Germany. Joins 11 Armoured Brigade (4th Armoured Division).

 

1992
  The Queen’s Regiment
 

As a result of the Options for Change Defence Review The Queen's Regiment was amalgamated with The Royal Hampshire Regiment to form The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) (PWRR)

The 1st Battalion was disbanded at Minden, West Germany, the 2nd Battalion held a final reunion at Canterbury and the 3rd Battalion disbanded in Cyprus. The two new regular battalions of The PWRR were formed at Colchester (1st Bn) and Canterbury (2nd Bn) The 5th (V) Bn The Queen's Regiment remained with its BHQ at Canterbury, but rebadged as the 3rd Bn The PWRR. Further reductions and changes would take place in the Territorial Army in the coming years.

  Queen’s Regiment Memorial

The Queen’s Regiment Memorial, Leros Barracks, Canterbury. (The memorial original stood by the main gates at Howe Barracks before its closure.) It is dedicated to all who served in The Queen’s Regiment, particularly those who died as a result of terrorist action. The memorial incorporates a cartouche of King George III used from 1801 to 1816, which was originally in the Officers’ Mess at Wemyss Barracks, Canterbury.


1995

The Queen’s Regiment Memorial

The Regimental Council of The Queen's Regiment had for some years debated where a Regimental Memorial could be erected. Finally, authority was granted to erect a small memorial, in Howe Barracks, Canterbury on the 10th February 1995 (Sobraon Day) it was dedicated by the Venerable Peter Mallett CB, Honorary Chaplain to The Queen's Regiment in the presence of four former Colonels of the Regiment. Maj. Gen. FAH Ling CB, CBE, DSO, DL; (1973 - 1977) Maj. Gen. RSN Mans CBE; (1978 - 1983); Brig. HC Millman OBE DL (1984 - 1988) and Maj. Gen. MF Reynolds CB, the last Colonel.

"INVICTA ICH DIEN"
UNCONQUERED I SERVE

 

Following the closure of Howe Barracks in February 2015 the memorial was moved to Leros Barracks, Catterbury.

On 3 May 2015, It was rededicated at a by Canon Paul Kerr of Rochester Cathedral.

 

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