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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 ...
3rd (1st Royal Surrey Militia) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment; 3rd (2nd Royal Surrey Militia) Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment; 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 3rd Royal Surrey Militia; 3rd Surrey Local Militia; 3rd Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps; 4th (3rd ...
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.
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a line infantry regiment of the English and later the British Army from 1661 to 1959. [1] It was the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, behind only the Royal Scots in the British Army line infantry order of precedence.
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 ...
The Suffolk Regiment Museum is based at Gibraltar Barracks in Bury St Edmunds [65] The Surrey Infantry Museum was based at Clandon Park House, near Guildford until it was destroyed in a fire in April 2015 [66] The Tank Museum, the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment, is at Bovington Camp in Dorset [67]
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 .