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Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, founder of the regiment. The regiment was raised in 1661 by Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough as The Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Foot on Putney Heath (then in Surrey) specifically to garrison the new English acquisition of Tangier, part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry when she married King Charles II. [4]
When the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot became The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, [1] it became the county regiment of West Surrey, and one pre-existent militia and four volunteer battalions of West Surrey were integrated into the structure of the Queen's Royal Regiment.
There is a marble memorial plaque in the Chapel of the Queen's Royal Regiment at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford, to the 12 men of the battalion who died during the Second Boer War. [ 109 ] [ 110 ] The monument in the Chapel to the 11,000 men of the Queen's Regiment who died in World War I and World War II is a large wooden panel with a central ...
Following the Childers Reforms, the regiment evolved to become the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) with its depot in the barracks in 1881. [3] The barracks were used as an army recruiting centre during the First World War and as a reception and training centre for infantry recruits during the Second World War. [1]
Royal Regiment of Scotland: 2: 2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot [25] 1661 Raised 1 October 1661, as the Tangier Regiment [25] 1881: The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment: 3: 3rd (or the Buffs) Regiment of Foot 1751–1782. 3rd (East Kent – the Buffs) Regiment of Foot 1782–1881 [26] 1665 Raised 1572 ...
He went on to be colonel of the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot in 1710. [2] As was usual at the time, this regiment was also named after its current colonel, from one of whom, Percy Kirke, it acquired its nickname Kirke's Lambs. [3] Kirke died on 1 January 1741 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. [4]
Last year’s June 2023 festivities marked King Charles III’s first Trooping the Colour since taking over leadership duties from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died at age 96 in ...
In 1956, the 5th Battalion was reformed, leading to the 4th/5th Battalion being redesignated as the 4th Battalion. The 1957 Defence White Paper stated that the Buffs was due to amalgamated with the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, to form the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment on the 1 March 1961. [1]