• The East Surrey Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959. The regiment was formed in 1881 under the...
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    regiment was amalgamated with the East Surrey Regiment, to form a single county regiment called the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment which was, on 31 December 1966...
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  • Royal Regiment (West Surrey) and the East Surrey Regiment were amalgamated on 14 October 1959 to form the 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment. In...
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  • The 1st Royal Surrey Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment was an auxiliary regiment raised in Surrey in the Home Counties of England...
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    with the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot to form the East Surrey Regiment in 1881. The formation of the regiment was prompted by the expansion of...
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    The 13th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (Wandsworth) (13th East Surreys or 13th ESR) was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's...
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    Following the Childers Reforms the 1st Surrey RVC became the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment on 1 July 1881, but without changing its...
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  • The 3rd Royal Surrey Militia, later the 4th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment was an auxiliary regiment raised 1853 in Surrey in the Home counties of England...
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    Regiment of Foot to form the East Surrey Regiment in 1881. In 1694, during the Nine Years' War, Sir Richard Atkins was authorised to raise a regiment...
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    George Roupell (category East Surrey Regiment officers)
    having served with the British Army in the 70th Regiment and commanded the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment from 1895 to 1899, and was promoted to colonel...
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    Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (2nd Regiment of Foot), the PWRR is the most senior English line infantry regiment. The current regiment was named in...
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    Benjamin Handley Geary (category East Surrey Regiment officers)
    Reserve on 15 August 1914 as a second lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Soon afterwards he was sent to France and attached to the regular...
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    Palestine during World War I. When the London Regiment was abolished the unit reverted to the East Surrey Regiment but just before World War II it was converted...
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    Northumberland Fusiliers, he soon deserted, returned to London and joined the East Surrey Regiment, whom he also soon deserted. Rejoining his old battalion, he was...
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    Harry Cator (category East Surrey Regiment soldiers)
    in June 1915 already a sergeant in the 7th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. In 1916 at the time of the Battle of the Somme, he was awarded the...
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    raised a complete infantry battalion, the 13th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (Wandsworth), which served on the Western Front. On 24 April 1917...
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  • Its other regiment served in East Africa, the Siege of Tobruk, and in Iraq and Persia. The regiment's lineage is maintained today by 2 (Surrey Yeomanry)...
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    with the other regiments of the Home Counties Brigade—the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment—to form the...
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    The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), formerly the 3rd Regiment of Foot, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army traditionally raised in the English...
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    Sandy Turnbull (category East Surrey Regiment soldiers)
    the Middlesex Regiment (2nd Football) during the First World War before being transferred to the 8th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. After being...
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    the village for recruiting, was granted to the 6th Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment which maintained a platoon from A Company. The village also maintained...
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    Edward Dwyer (category East Surrey Regiment soldiers)
    1895. Dwyer was 19 years old, and a private in the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, British Army during the First World War, when he was awarded the...
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  • following regiments: The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) The East Surrey...
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    Eric Charles Twelves Wilson (category East Surrey Regiment officers)
    Sandhurst. Wilson was commissioned as a second lieutenant in The East Surrey Regiment on 2 February 1933. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in...
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    The 12th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (Bermondsey) (12th East Surreys or 12th ESR) was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's...
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    Windsor Davies (category East Surrey Regiment soldiers)
    He performed his National Service in Libya and Egypt, with the East Surrey Regiment, between 1950 and 1952. Following teacher training at Bangor Teacher...
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    Northamptonshire Regiment The Black Dragoons – 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons The Black Hand Gang – 12th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (Bermondsey)...
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    59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot East Surrey Regiment 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot Duke of Cornwall's...
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  • R. C. Sherriff (category East Surrey Regiment officers)
    1914. Sherriff served as an officer in the 9th battalion of the East Surrey Regiment in the First World War, taking part in the fighting at Vimy Ridge...
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    John McNamara (VC) (category East Surrey Regiment soldiers)
    forces. He was 30 years old, and a corporal in the 9th Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed...
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