The Surrey Infantry Regimental Tree

 

The Queen's Royal Regiment

The East Surrey Regiment

1661 Raised as The Tangier Regiment of Foot

1684 The Regiment styled The Queen's Regiment

1686 The Queen Dowager's Regiment

 

 

1703 The Regiment received the title of "Royal"

 

 

1714 Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Foot

 

1727 2nd or Queen's Royal Regiment (The Queen's Own Regiment)

1751 The Queen's (Second) Royal Regiment of Foot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1857 Formation of 2nd Battalion

1881 The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

1921 The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 1921-1959

1948 2nd Battalion disbanded in Berlin

 

 

 

1702-1714 Regiments of Marines

1702 Villiers' Marine Regiment

1703 Luttrell's Marines

1706 Churchill's Marines

1711 Goring's Marines

1714 Converted from Marines to a Regiment of the Line

1714 Thirty First Regiment of Foot

 

 

1756 Formation of a Second Battalion

1758 2nd Bn constituted a Regiment

 

1782 31st Huntingdonshire Regiment

1805 Formation of 2nd Battalion

 

1814 Disbandment of 2nd Battalion

 

 

1881 Amalgamation with 70th Regiment to become 1st Bn The East Surrey Regiment

 

1948 1st and 2nd Battalions amalgamated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1758 The Seventieth Regiment of Foot

1758 The Seventieth Regiment of Foot constituted from 2nd Bn Thirty First Regiment

1782 70th (Surrey) Regiment

 

1812 70th (Glasgow Lowland) Regiment

 

1825 70th (Surrey) Regiment

 

1881 Amalgamation with 31st Regiment to become 2nd Bn The East Surrey Regiment

 

 

1959 Amalgamation with The East Surrey Regiment

1959 Amalgamation with The Queen's Royal Regiment

The Queen's Royal Regiment and The East Surrey Regiment
amalgamated to form:-

14th October 1959
The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment

31st December 1966
The Queen's Regiment

Formed by the amalgamation of The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment: The Queen's Own Buffs: The Royal Sussex Regiment: The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

9th September 1992
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

The Queen's Regiment amalgamated with The Royal Hampshire Regiment assuming the title of The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)

 

 

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