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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.
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]
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 ...
Under the 'Localisation of the Forces' scheme introduced by the Cardwell Reforms of 1872, militia regiments were brigaded with their local regular and Volunteer battalions – for the 2nd RSM this was with the two battalions of the 2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot in Sub-District No 48 (County of Surrey) at Guildford. A planned second ...
Lieutenant General Sir James Holmes Schoedde KCB (1786 – 14 November 1861) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot and the 55th Regiment of Foot.
Jones became a lieutenant in the 3rd Foot Guards in 1749. [1] Promoted to major-general in 1777, he fought in the American Revolutionary War. [1] He went on to be colonel of the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot on 12 August 1777. [2]
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]
He had an elder brother, Edward, who was killed at the Battle of Fontenoy, being then lieutenant-colonel of the 31st Foot. [1] Montagu attained the rank of colonel in the Army on 30 November 1755, major-general on 25 June 1759, colonel of the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot on 27 November 1760, and lieutenant-general on 19 January 1761 ...