The Colours

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Top: The Colours of the 1^st Bn The Queen's Royal Regiment 1847 - 1947.
The Third or Colonels Colour in the centre has the cipher of King Charles II and Queen Catherine.
Left: The Colours of the 1^st Bn the East Surrey Regiment 1903 -1959.
Right: The Colours of the 2^nd Bn the East Surrey Regiment 1867 - 1945.
Bottom: The Colours of the 1^st Bn the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment 1959 - 1974.

 

Foreword

The Colours of The Second or Queen’s Royal Regiment

Introduction

Tangier 1661 – 1684

The Reign of King James II

The Reign of Queen Anne

The Early Hanoverian Period 1714 to 1768

1772 – 1806

The Peninsular War Colours and the Period to 1847

The Hundred Year Colours

The 1^st Battalion 1947-1959

Painting, Colour Party The Queen's Royal Regiment 29^th September 1945

The 2^nd Battalion 1857-1948

The Third Colour

Service Battalions

Colours of the Territorial Battalions

The 4^th Battalion

The 5^th Battalion

The 22^nd London Regiment (The Queen’s); later 6^th (Bermondsey) Battalion

The 24^th London Regiment (The Queen’s); later 7^th (Southwark) Battalion

Colours of the 24^th (County of London) Battalion (The Queens)

Colours of The East Surrey Regiment
(and its forebears the 31^st and 70^th of Foot)

Thirty-First Regiment (1^st Battalion), 1788-1802

Thirty-First Regiment (1^st Battalion) 1802-1825

Thirty-First Regiment (2^nd Battalion) 1805-1814

Thirty-First Regiment 1827-1848

Thirty-First Regiment 1848-1864

Thirty-First Regiment 1864-1881 and 1^st Battalion The East Surrey Regiment
(31^st Foot), 1881-1903

1^st Battalion The East Surrey Regiment (31^st Foot) 1903-1959

Seventieth Regiment, 1831 to 1845

Seventieth Regiment 1848-1867

The Seventieth Regiment 1867-1881 and 2^nd Battalion the East Surrey Regiment
(70^th Foot), 1881-1945

2^nd Battalion The East Surrey Regiment (70^th Foot) 1945- 1948
(held by the 1^st Battalion (31^st and 70^th), 1948-1959)

Battle Honours of the World Wars

Territorial Battalions

Service Battalions of the Great War: King’s Colours, 1919 - 1920

Volunteer Colours - The Bridge House Mark

The Colours of The Royal Surrey Regiments of Militia

Introduction

The Onslows and the Regiment

1^st Royal Surrey Militia Colours

2^nd Royal Surrey Militia Colours

3^rd Royal Surrey Militia

The Colours of The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment
1959 - 1967

1^st Battalion The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment.

3^rd and 4^th Battalions The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment (TA)

Colours of The Queen’s Regiment 1974 To 1993

The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

The Colours of The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

Whereabouts of Colours

Galleries of Additional Pictures

The Queen’s Royal Regiment

The Colours in All Saints Church, Kingston-upon-Thame

Thirty First Huntingdonshire Regiment and 1^st Battalion The East Surrey Regiment

Seventieth Regiment and 2^nd East Surreys

The East Surrey Regiment

The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment

The Queen’s Regiment

Volunteer Corps

Historical Note on the use of Colours