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SURREY YEOMANRY (THE PRINCESS OF WALES'S) (39) [39]
1908
Surrey Yeomanry (The Princess of Wales's)
1910
Re-designated as:

Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment)

The Great War
Three units formed
1914
1st / 1st Surrey Yeomanry 2nd / 1st Surrey Yeomanry 3rd / 1st Surrey Yeomanry
1915
3rd / 1st Surrey Yeomanry disbanded
1917
2nd / 1st Surrey Yeomanry amalgamated with 2nd / 1st Sussex Yeomanry
1919
Disembodied

Battle Honours awarded to Surrey Yeomanry:

Ypres 1915, France and Flanders 1915, Struma, Macedonia 1916-18, Egypt 1915

1920

Reformed as:

Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment)

1922

Change of arm and re-designated as:

391st and 392nd Batteries, 98th (Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

1924

Re-designated as:

98th (Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry, Queen Mary's) (Army) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery

1934

Re-designated as:

98th (Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry, Queen Mary's) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery

1939

On duplication of the Territorial Army, re-designated as:

98th (Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry, Queen Mary's) Army Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

and

144th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery [see Sussex Yeomanry]

and

74th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery

1942

Re-designated as:

98th (Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry, Queen Mary's) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

WW2
Location of operations
98th Field Regiment
144th Field Regiment
74th Medium Regiment
Sudan
Home Defence
Egypt
Libya
Iraq
Persia
Palestine
1946
Suspended animation
1947

Reformed as:

298th (Surrey Yeomanry, Queen Mary's) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

1961

Amalgamated with:

263rd ( 6th London) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery

[less Sheerness and Gravesend Batteries]

291st ( 4th London) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

381st (East Surrey) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

To form:

263rd (Surrey Yeomanry, Queen Mary's) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

1964

Re-designated as:

263rd (Surrey Yeomanry, Queen Mary's) Regiment, Royal Artillery

1967

Re-designated as:

The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment), Royal Artillery (Territorials)


part of which went to 200th (Sussex Yeomanry) Field Battery, Royal Artillery (Volunteers)
1969

Remainder reduced to cadre and designated as:

The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment), Royal Artillery

1971

Amalgamated with: 6th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (Queen's Surreys) 10th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (Middlesex) The Greater London Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorials)

The London and Kent Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorials)

[formerly: 3rd , 4th , 6th , 7th , 8th , 20th , 21st , 22nd , 23rd , 24th Battalions, The London Regiment
4th , 5th Battalions, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
5th , 6th Battalions, The East Surrey Regiment
7th , 8th , 9th Battalions, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
6th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
4th , 6th , 8th London Brigades, Royal Field Artillery 4th Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
2nd London Divisional Royal Engineers Kent (Fortress) Royal Engineers part of The Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)]

To become:

D (Surrey Yeomanry, Queen Mary's) Company 6th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment

1975

6th Battalion, The Queen's Regiment Amalgamated with:

7th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment

[formerly: 4th and 5th Battalions, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
4th and 5th Battalions, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
4th and 5th Battalions, The Royal Sussex Regiment part of The Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)]

To form:

6th / 7th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment

In which D Company dropped Surrey Yeomanry title and became:

D (Highwood) Company

1986

B and part of D Company, 6th / 7th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment formed:

A and B Company, 8th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Fusiliers (City of London) together with:

C (City of London) Company coming from 5th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

D (Highwood) Company of 6th / 7th Battalion, The Queen's Regiment became: A Company, 8th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Fusiliers (City of London)

1992
200th (Sussex Yeomanry) Field Battery, Royal Artillery (Volunteers) of which one troop descended from The Surrey Yeomanry (in 1967), Re-designated and re-roled as:

127th (Sussex Yeomanry) Field Squadron, Royal Engineers

1993

A Company, 8th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Fusiliers (City of London) reverted to:

6th / 7th Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)

To become:

A (Salerno) Company

1999

Re-designated to become:

A (Queen's Royal Surreys) Company, 3rd Battalion, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) Surrey Yeomanry Troop of 127th (Sussex Yeomanry) Field Squadron, Royal Engineers became part of:

579th (Bomb Disposal) Squadron, 101st (London) Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), Royal Engineers

To become:

No. 2 (Surrey Yeomanry) Troop

Summary of successor units is as follows:

A (Salerno) Company, 3rd Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)

No 2 (Surrey Yeomanry) Troop, 579th (Bomb Disposal) Squadron,
101st (London) Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), Royal Engineers

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