Regimental Timeline

The East Surrey Regiment

1944
	The East Surrey Regiment
	1^st Battalion
	Operations in Italy.
11^th - 18^th May	Battle of Cassino.
May	Surrender of Italy.
30^th May	The East Surrey Regiment granted Freedom of Kingston-upon-Thames.
	2^nd Battalion
	Sussex.
September	Orkney Islands.
December	Kent.

A patrol of 1/6th Bn The East Surrey Regiment entering Cassino with the Monastry above.
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Territorial Army
	1^st/6^th Battalion
11^th - 18^th May	Battle of Cassino.
	Surrender of Italy.
November	Relieved in the line and prepared to move to Palestine.
7^th December	Embarks at Taranto and moves to Piraeus, Greece.
18^th December	Operations against ELAS in Athens begun.
	2^nd/6^th Battalion
2^nd January	Durham.
19^th April	Hornsey, North London.
July	Lowestoft, Suffolk. Takes on role of a training battalion.
September	Shorncliffe.
November	Whittlesham, Norfolk.
Home Defence Battalions
	10^th Battalion
31^st December	Hassocks, Sussex.
Home Guard Battalions
	3^rd (Weybridge), 51^st (Malden), 52^nd, 53^rd (Molesey), 54^th, 55^th, 56^th (Epsom, Ewell and Banstead), 62^nd (Norbury), 63^rd (Richmond), Battalions affiliated.
	64^th (Kingston) Battalion raised and affiliated.
Depot
	12 ITC becomes 12^th Holding Battalion.