The Queen's Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ...

History

The Regiment was formed on 31 December 1966 by the amalgamation of the four remaining regiments of the Home Counties Brigade as a consequence of further defence cuts were implemented. December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...

The four regiments formed four battalions, retaining their previous names in the titles. These were:

• 1st Battalion (Queen's Surreys) -- formerly The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment.
• 2nd Battalion (Queen's Own Buffs) -- formerly The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment.
• 3rd Battalion (Royal Sussex) -- formerly The Royal Sussex Regiment.
• 4th Battalion (Middlesex) -- formerly The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own).

In 1967 the 5th (Volunteer) Battalion, a TAVR II (Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve) unit, was formed to be employed for use with NATO forces in West Germany during tense times in the Cold War. The following year, on 1 July, the battalions discarded their previous regimental identification when the subtitles were omitted. 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... The flag of NATO NATO 2002 Summit The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 1949. ... A cold war is a state of conflict between nations that does not involve direct military action but is pursued primarily through economic and political actions, acts of espionage or conflict through surrogates. ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ...

During its existence, the deployments of the Regiment's battalions were primarily to Northern Ireland (NI), especially during the more turbulent times of the 1970s and 1980s, attempting to keep the peace between the opposing Catholic and Protestant factions, and taking part in operations against the numerous paramilitary organisations: the Regiment lost 9 men during its many tours of NI; however, its battalions did deploy to many overseas postings during the Regiment's existence, including many deployments to West Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR). Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four constituent parts of the United Kingdom. ... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... There have been two formations named British Army of the Rhine (BAOR). ...

In 1970 the 1st Battalion joined the Berlin Brigade in West Berlin, a small enclave in Communist-controlled East Germany, leaving in 1972. In October 1972 the 2nd Battalion arrived in Cyprus as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNIFICYP), a force intended to prevent conflict from breaking out between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The Battalion returned to the UK in May 1973. The 4th Battalion was disbanded that year, as with every other 'junior' battalion of the new large regiments. Also that year, the 3rd Battalion arrived in Gibraltar where it remained with the garrison for almost two years. In 1977 the 2nd Battalion arrived in Gibraltar and the 3rd Battalion arrived in Belize, then a British territory, as part of the garrison there to protect it from the perceieved threat of war with Guatemala, a neighbour of Belize, which was was making clains that it believed Belize to be an integral part of Guatemala. 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Boroughs of West Berlin West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...

In late 1981 the 2nd Battalion deployed to Cyprus on a 6-month tour-of-duty with UN forces. In 1985 the 1st Battalion arrived in Gibraltar on a 2-year posting and the following year the 3rd Battalion was deployed to Belize on a 6-month tour-of-duty. In 1990 the 3rd Battalion arrived in Cyprus -- its last deployment abroad -- and returned to the UK in 1992. The 2nd Battalion's last deployment was to Northern Ireland in 1992 before heading to Canterbury, England, while the 1st Battalion had returned to the UK after only a year in Germany. All three battalions were now in the UK, ready to be amalgamated with the Royal Hampshire Regiment, ss a consequence of the Options for Change defence cuts, to form two battalions of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires). 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... St Peters St, Canterbury, from the West Gate, 1993 Canterbury (Latin: Duroverum) is a cathedral city in the county of Kent in southeast England. ... Options for Change was a restructuring of the British military in 1993, aimed at cutting defence spending following the end of the Cold War. ...

Other Information

• Alled Colonel-in-Chiefs:
• HM Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands
• HM Frederick IX, King of Denmark (replaced by HM Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark upon King Frederick's death in 1972)
• Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent
• Motto: Unconquered I Serve
• Anniversaries:
  • Regiment: Sobraon (10 February, Albuhera (16 May, Glorious First of June, Sevastopol (8 September), Salerno (9 September). Quebec (13 September), British Battalion Day (20 December)
• Marches:
  • Slow: The Caledonian
  • Quick: Soldiers of the Queen
• Alliances:
• The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) -- Canada (1966-1992)
• The South Alberta Horse -- Canada (1966-1992)
• The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada (1966-1992)
• The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment -- Canada (1966-1992)
• 1st Battalion, The Royal New Brunswick Regiemnt (Carleton and York) -- Canada (1966-1992)
• The Essex and Kent Scottish -- Canada (1966-1992)
• The Royal New South Wales Regiment -- Australia (1967-1992)
• The Royal Western Australia Regiment (1967-1992)
• The University of New South Wales Regiment -- Australia (1967-1992)
• 2nd Battalion (Canterbury and Nelson-Marlborough, and West Coast), Royal New Zealand Infantry (1966-1992)
• 5th Battalion (Wellington West Coast and Taranaki), Royal New Zealand Infantry (1966-1992)
• 12th, 14th, 15th, and 17th Battalions, The Punjab Regiment -- Pakistan
• The Royal Sierra Leone Regiment, Royal Sierra Leone Military Forces (1966-?)
• The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) -- (1966-1992)