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Regimental Timeline

The East Surrey Regiment

1920
	The East Surrey Regiment
	1^st Battalion
January	Dublin, Ireland, for Internal Security Operations during pre-Independence period.
June	Sheffield, England.
November	Moves to Egypt. Ismailia (Canal Zone).
	2^nd Battalion
February	Constantinople, Turkey.
May	Chanak, Turkey.
July	Constantinople, Turkey.
September	Aldershot, England.
Territorial Force
	1^st/5^th Battalion
26^th March	Disbanded and absorbed back into 5^th Battalion.
	5^th Battalion
25^th March	Reconstituted. Remains on Home Service.
	1^st/6^th Battalion
23^rd January	Disbanded and absorbed back into 6^th Battalion.
	6^th Battalion
23^rd January	Reconstituted at Kingston. Remains on Home Service until 1939.
	1^st/21^st (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (1^st Surrey Rifles)
7^th February	Reconstituted at Camberwell. Remains on Home Service.
	23^rd (County of London) Battalion the London Regiment
7^th February	Reconstituted at Clapham. Remains on Home Service.
Service Battalions
	9^th Battalion
27^th March	Disbanded at Clipstone.

The body of the Unknown Warrior en-route to England. Boulogne, November 1921 Sergeant in foreground from The East Surrey Regiment.
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1921
	The East Surrey Regiment
	1^st Battalion
	Ismailia, Canal Zone, Egypt.
December	Cairo, Egypt.
	2^nd Battalion
	Aldershot.
	Counter-Insurgency Operations:
February	Dublin, Ireland.
	13^th (Wandsworth) Service Battalion
16^th July	Veterans presented with King’s Colour on Wandsworth Common by General Sir John Longley, Colonel of the East Surrey Regiment.

1922
	The East Surrey Regiment
	1^st Battalion
	Cairo, Egypt.
	2^nd Battalion
	Counter-Insurgency Operations:
	Dublin, Ireland.
February	Moves to Aldershot.
Territorial Army
	21^st (County of London) Battalion The London Regiment (1^st Surrey Rifles).
	Redesignated as 21^st London Regiment (1^st Surrey Rifles).
	23^rd (County of London) Battalion The London Regiment.
	Redesignated as 23^rd London Regiment.

1927
	The East Surrey Regiment
	1^st Battalion
November 1926	Rawalpindi, India (to 1931).
	2^nd Battalion
October 1924	Jersey.
January	Gibraltar (to 1929).
Territorial Army
	6^th Battalion
9^th June 1928	Presentation of Colours at Kingston by Col The Lord Ashcombe.
	23^rd London Regiment.
October	Redesignated as 23^rd London Regiment (The East Surrey Regiment).

1935
	The East Surrey Regiment
	1^st Battalion
February 1931	Lahore, India.
December 1934	Fyzabad, India.
	2^nd Battalion
December 1932	Shorncliffe.
Territorial Army
	21^st London Regiment (1^st Surrey Rifles)
15^th December	Reconstituted as 35 (1^st Surrey Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Battalion RE and transferred to Royal Engineers.
	23^rd London Regiment.

1937
	The East Surrey Regiment
	1^st Battalion
	Fyzabad, India.
October	Khartoum, Sudan.
	2^nd Battalion
October 1936	Colchester.
Territorial Army
	23^rd London Regiment (The East Surrey Regiment)
10^th September	Redesignated as 7^th (23^rd London) Battalion The East Surrey Regiment.
Home Defence Battalions
	8^th Battalion
1^st September 1936	Battalion raised as 3 Group, National Defence Corps.

East Surrey Regiment Recruiting Poster.

Recruiting Poster.

1938
	The East Surrey Regiment
	1^st Battalion
	Khartoum, Sudan.
	2^nd Battalion
	Colchester.
September	Embarks for China.
	League of Nations Occupation Force:
November	Shanghai, China.
Territorial Army
	5^th Battalion
28^th November	Converted as 57 (5^th Bn The East Surrey Regiment) Anti-tank Regiment RA (225, 226, 227 and 228 Batteries) and transferred to RA.
	7^th Battalion
1^st November	Converted as 42^nd (7^th (23^rd London) Bn The East Surrey Regiment) Battalion, Royal Tank Corps and transferred to RTC.