1661 Raised as The Tangier Regiment of Foot |
1684 The Regiment styled The Queen's Regiment |
1686 The Queen Dowager's Regiment |
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1703 The Regiment received the title of "Royal" |
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1714
Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment
of Foot |
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1727
2nd or Queen's Royal Regiment (The Queen's Own
Regiment) |
1751
The Queen's (Second) Royal Regiment of Foot |
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1857 Formation of 2nd Battalion |
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1881
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) |
1921
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 1921-1959 |
1948
2nd Battalion disbanded in Berlin |
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1702-1714
Regiments of Marines |
1702
Villiers' Marine Regiment |
1703
Luttrell's Marines |
1706
Churchill's Marines |
1711
Goring's Marines |
1714
Converted from Marines to a Regiment of the Line |
1714
Thirty First Regiment of Foot |
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1756 Formation of a Second Battalion |
1758 2nd Bn constituted a Regiment |
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1782
31st Huntingdonshire Regiment |
1805 Formation of 2nd Battalion |
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1814 Disbandment of 2nd Battalion |
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1881
Amalgamation with 70th Regiment to become 1st Bn The East
Surrey Regiment |
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1948 1st and 2nd Battalions amalgamated |
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1758
The Seventieth Regiment of Foot |
1758
The Seventieth Regiment of Foot constituted from 2nd Bn Thirty First Regiment |
1782
70th (Surrey) Regiment |
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1812
70th (Glasgow Lowland) Regiment |
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1825
70th (Surrey) Regiment |
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1881
Amalgamation with 31st Regiment to become 2nd Bn The East
Surrey Regiment |
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