End of an Era: The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment and The Queen's Regiment

End of an Era:
The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment
& The Queen's Regiment

As army cutbacks continued to bite, the Surrey regiments suffered two amalgamations between 1959 and 1966, emerging in the latter year as the Queen's Regiment. The heavy military presence in north Germany, as part of NATO's forces, continued to be maintained there were tours of duty to Aden, Hong Kong and, later, Bahrain. In 1969, with the eruption of sectarian violence in Northen Ireland, peacekeeping duties in Belfast and Derry presented a new challenge.

A Sergeant of the Queen's patrolling the ancient walls of Derry City, Northern Ireland.

Video Duration 0:34

Colonel John Davidson
John Davidson, 1^st Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment and the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, recalls the amalgamation of the Queen's and the East Surrey Regiments in 1959.

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Video Duration 1:24

Colonel John Davidson
John Davidson, 1^st Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment, and the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, remembers the fraternisation ban whiles stationed in North Germany.

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Video Duration 4:24

Major John Rogerson
John Rogerson, 1^st Battalion, the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, recalls the misery, tedium and pleasure of the long voyage out to Aden and testing new vehicles in the desert, 1961-1962.

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Video Duration 4:02

Sergeant Alan Caulkett
Alan Caulkett, 1^st Battalion, the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, remembers life in the Hong Kong garrison, 1962-1963.

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Video Duration 1:57

Colonel Toby Sewell
Toby Sewell, the Queen's Regiment, remembers the end of the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment in 1966.

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Video Duration 1:39

Sergeant Alan Caulkett
Alan Caulkett, 1^st Battalion, the Queen's Regiment, remembers the tedium of service in Bahrain in 1968.

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Video Duration 1:06

Sergeant Alan Caulkett
Alan Caulkett, 1^st Battalion, the Queen's Regiment, remembers the ceremonial guarding of the Bank of England, 1969.

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Video Duration 1:33

Sergeant Alan Caulkett
Alan Caulkett, 1^st Battalion, the Queen's Regiment, recalls peacekeeping operations in Derry during 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland, 1969-1970.

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Video Duration 2:10

Major General Mike Reynolds
Mike Reynolds, the Queen's Regiment, recalls some tense episodes when stationed in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s.

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