Regimental Timeline

The Second or The Queen's Royal Regiment

Soldiers of the Regiment

1657 - 1660: The Civil Wars and the Interregnum
1657 - 1660

1660 - 1661: The Restoration
1660 - 1661

1662: The Occupation of Tangier and Dunkirk
1662

1663 - 1668: Tangier and the War in Portugal
1663 - 1668

1669 - 1684: Tangier and the Fight against the Moors
1670 - 1680

1685: Monmouth's Rebellion
1680 - 1686

1688: William III's Invasion of England
1688

1689 - 1691: William III's campaign in Ireland
1689 - 1691

1689 - 1697: The Nine Years' War in Flanders and the Low Countries
1691 - 1701

1702 - 1713: War of Spanish Succession
1702 - 1711

1714 - 1737

1742 - 1748: War of the Austrian Succession
1742 - 1747

1749 - 1751

1756 - 1763: The Seven Years’ War
1756 - 1763

1765 - 1772

1776 - 1782: American Revolutionary War
1776

1782 - 1790

1792 - 1802: The French Revolutionary Wars
1794 - 1802

1802 - 1815: the Napoleonic Wars
1802 - 1815

1816 - 1827

1839 - 1842: First Afghan War.
1839 - 1842

1842 - 1846: First Sikh War
1845 - 1846

1847 - 1848

1851 - 1853: First Frontier War
1851 - 1853

1854 - 1856: Crimean War
1854 - 1856

1856 - 1857: Second Frontier War
1856 - 1857

1857: Indian Mutiny.
1857

1859 - 1860

1860 - 1863: First Opium War (China).
1861 - 1863

1863 - 1866: Maori Wars (New Zealand)
1863 - 1866

1868 Malta
1867 - 1868

1873: Cardwell’s First Reforms.
1873

1875 - 1877

1878 - 1879: Second Afghan War.
1878 - 1879

1880

1881: Cardwell’s Second Reforms.
1881

1884 - 1885: Mahdist War (Egypt and Sudan).
1884 - 1885

1885 - 1887: Burmese War.
1885 - 1887

1892 - 1895

1897 - 1898: North-West Frontier Campaign.
1897 - 1898

1899 - 1902: Second South African (Boer War).
1899 - 1902

1903 - 1904

1908: Haldane’s Reforms.
1908

1909 - 1914

The Great War: 1914 - 1919
1914

The Great War: 1914 - 1919
1915

The Great War: 1914 - 1919
1916

The Great War: 1914 - 1919
1917

The Great War: 1914 - 1919
1918

The Great War: 1914 - 1919
1919

1920 - 1939

The Second World War: 1939 - 1945
1939

The Second World War: 1939 - 1945
1940

The Second World War: 1939 - 1945
1941

The Second World War: 1939 - 1945
1942

The Second World War: 1939 - 1945
1943

The Second World War: 1939 - 1945
1944

The Second World War: 1939 - 1945
1945

1946 - 1950

1951 - 1959