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2nd Royal Surrey Militia 3rd Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) Active: 2 January 1797–1 April 1953: Country Kingdom of Great Britain (1797–1800) United Kingdom (1801–1953) Branch: Militia: Role: Infantry: Garrison/HQ: Guildford: Engagements: Second Boer War. Defence of Okiep; Commanders; Notable commanders: Thomas Onslow ...
But the Peace of Amiens broke down in 1803 before the 1st Surreys could be disembodied and the regiment remained in service; the 2nd Surreys were embodied again on 11 March 1803. On 23 April 1804 both the Surrey militia regiments were granted the title 'Royal', becoming the 1st and 2nd Royal Surrey Militia (1st and 2nd RSM).
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.
1st Surrey Supplementary Militia; 2nd Royal Surrey Militia; 2nd Surrey Local Militia; 3rd (1st Royal Surrey Militia) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment; 3rd (2nd Royal Surrey Militia) Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 3rd Royal Surrey Militia; 3rd Surrey Local Militia; 4th (3rd Royal Surrey Militia) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
The buildings were converted into barracks capable of accommodating two infantry battalions in 1892 and initially became the home of the 2nd Battalion, the Royal West Surrey Regiment. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The barracks were named after the Battle of Inkerman , a conflict during the Crimean War .
The barracks became the headquarters of the 2nd Surrey Rifle Volunteers in 1859. [2] The 2nd Surrey Rifle Volunteers evolved to become the 4th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) in 1908. [1] The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to India. [3]
The regiment's archives and library are located at the Surrey History Centre in Woking. [41] After being upgraded in 2001, in July 2011 with part funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund the museum merged with those of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment and the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment to become the Surrey Infantry Museum. [42]
The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army which existed from 1959 to 1966. In 1966, it was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) to form the Queen's Regiment, which later merged with the Royal Hampshire Regiment in September 1992 to form the ...