Great Britain

The Queen’s

The East Surrey Regiment

	Kingdom of England
1661:	Tangier Regiment Earl of Peterborough’s │
1663:	Earl of Teviot’s │
1663:	2nd Battalion raised │
1663:	Henry Norwood’s │
16??:	2nd Battalion disbanded │
1668:	Earl of Middleton’s │
1675:	Earl of Inchiquin’s │
1680:	Sir Palmes Fairbourne’s │
1682:	Piercy Kirke’s │
1685:	The Queen Dowager’s Regiment of Foot Piercy Kirke’s │
1691:	William Selwyn’s │
1694:	│ │ │	Sir Richard Attkin’s Regiment of Foot │
1694:	│ │	George Villier’s │
1698:	│ │ │	disbanded
1701:	Henry Bellasis’ │
1702:	│ │ │ │	George Villier’s Regiment of Marines │ │
1703:	Earl of Portmore’s │	Alexander Luttrell’s │
1706:	│ │	Joshua Churchill’s │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
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1710:	Piercy Kirke’s │	│ │
1711:	│ │	Sir Henry Goring’s │
1713:	│ │ │	Sir Henry Goring’s Regiment of Foot │
1715:	The Princess of Wales’s Own Regiment of Foot Piercy Kirke’s │	Lord John Kerr’s │ │ │
1727:	The Queen’s Own Regiment of Foot Piercy Kirke’s │	│ │ │ │
1728:	│ │	Lord Charles Cathcart’s │
1731:	│ │	William Hargrave’s │
1737:	│ │	William Handasyde’s │
1741:	Thomas Fowke’s │	│ │
1742:	ranked as 2nd Foot │	ranked as 31st Foot │
1745:	│ │	Lord Henry Beauclerk’s │
1747:	Thomas Fowke’s │	│ │
1749:	│ │	Henry Holmes’s │
1751:	2nd (The Queen’s Royal) Regiment of Foot │	31st Regiment of Foot │ │
1756:	│ │	2nd Battalion raised │ │	2nd Battalion, 31st Regiment of Foot │
1758:	│ │ │	2nd Battalion → │ │	70th (Glasgow Lowland) Regiment of Foot │
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1782:	│ │ │ │	31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot │ │	70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot │ │
1794:	2nd Battalion raised │	│ │	│ │
1797:	2nd Battalion disbanded │	│ │	│ │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1805:	│ │	2nd Battalion raised │	│ │
1814:	│ │	2nd Battalion disbanded │	│ │
1857:	2nd Battalion raised │	│ │	│ │
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	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	1st Battalion,    2nd Battalion,	1st Battalion,	2nd Battalion,
	The Royal West Surrey Regiment (The Queen’s) │
	The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) see also the Militia Battalion and the Volunteer Battalions	The East Surrey Regiment see also the Militia Battalions and the Volunteer Battalions
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1920:	The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey)	│ │
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1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1948:	2nd Battalion disbanded │	2nd Battalion disbanded │
1948:	part of The Home Counties Brigade │	part of The Home Counties Brigade │
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1959:	1st Battalion, The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment
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1966:	1st Battalion (Queen’s Surreys), The Queen’s Regiment │
1968:	1st Battalion, The Queen’s Regiment
	part of The Queen’s Division │
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1992:	merged into The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (Queen’s and Royal Hampshires)

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