Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

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The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)

Cap Badge of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
Active 9 September 1992-Present
Country United Kingdom
Branch Army
Type Line Infantry
Role 1st Battalion — Armoured Infantry
2nd Battalion — Light Role
3rd Battalion — TA Reserve
Size Three battalions
Part of Queen's Division
Garrison/HQ RHQ - Canterbury
1st Battalion - Paderborn, Germany
2nd Battalion - Ballykelly
3rd Battalion - Canterbury
Nickname The Tigers
March Quick - The Farmer's Boy/Soldiers of the Queen
Slow - The Minden Rose
Commanders
Colonel in Chief HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
Colonel of
the Regiment		 Major General P R Newton CBE MPhil
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Arm Badge Tiger
From Royal Hampshire Regiment

The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) is the senior English infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen's Division. It was formed in 1992 by the amalgamation of two other regiments and holds the oldest battle honour in the British Army (Tangier, 1662):

Through its ancestry via the Queen's Regiment to the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), the PWRR is the most senior English line infantry regiment. The current regiment was named in honour of The Princess of Wales. In 2004, it was announced that, as part of the re-structuring of the infantry, the PWRR would merge with the Berkshire and Wiltshire elements (former Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment) of the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. It was subsequently announced in 2005 that this would not take place, and the PWRR would remain unaffected.

The PWRR serves as the county regiment for the following counties:

Upon its creation, HRH The Princess of Wales and HM The Queen of Denmark were Allied Colonels-in-chief of the PWRR. When the Princess divorced HRH The Prince of Wales, she resigned as Colonel-in-chief and the Queen of Denmark has remained its Colonel-in-chief since.

The regimental headquarters is in Canterbury, while the regiment itself comprises three battalions:

There is also a single Territorial Army company, B (Queen's) Company of the London Regiment. Surrey Army Cadet Force and Kent Army Cadet Force is affiliated with the regiment and members wear the regiment's cap badge. Also some Combined Cadet Force contingents including Chichester High School are affiliated and wear the cap badge and stable belt.

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The regiment's 1st Battalion served a six-month tour of Iraq in 2004 with a second tour following in 2006. Many of the operations carried out by the Battalion during the first tour were named after stations on the London Underground.[1] The regiment's 2nd Battalion is currently stationed in Shackleton Barracks, Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, initially as part of Operation Banner, and was stationed in Iraq from February to September 2005.[2]

With the end of the arms plot in 2009, the regiment's two regular battalions will be based in Germany (1st Bn) and Cyprus (2nd Bn). The 2nd Bn will rotate this posting with public duties in London, following a deployment to Afghanistan in 2008.

A total of thirty seven medals and awards were awarded to the regiments 1st Battalion for their service during operations in Iraq in 2004 including a Victoria Cross, two CGCs, ten Military Crosses, and seventeen Mentioned in Despatches, making them the most highly decorated serving regiment in the British Army.[1]

Private Johnson Beharry of the 1st Battalion, PWRR was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during his unit's deployment to Al-Amarah, near Basrah. This was the first award of the VC since 1982.

Whilst attached to the 1st battalion, Michelle Norris of the Royal Army Medical Corps became the first woman to be awarded the Military Cross following her actions on June 11, 2006.

The PWRR is one of only two regiments in the British Army that has a foreign monarch as its Colonel-in-Chief (the other is The Light Dragoons). Queen Margarete II was previously the Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen's Regiment, continuing a tradition in her family dating back to the appointment of King Frederick VIII as the Colonel-in-Chief of The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), one of the ancestor regiments of the PWRR, in 1906.

  • (combined battle honours of The Queen's Regiment, and The Royal Hampshire Regiment, with the following emblazoned:)
    • The Regimental Colours1: Tangier 1662-80, Namur 1695, Gibraltar 1704-5, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Minden, Louisburg, Guadeloupe 1759, Quebec 1759, Belleisle, Tournay, Barrosa, Martinique 1762, Seringapatam, Maida, Corunna, Talavera, Albuhera, Almaraz, Vittoria, Peninsula, Punniar, Moodkee, Sobraon, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Lucknow, Taku Forts, Pekin 1860, New Zealand, Afghanistan 1879-80, Nile 1884-85, Burma 1885-87, Relief of Ladysmith, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902, Korea 1950-51
    • The Queen's Colours: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Hill 60, Festubert 1915, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Cambrai 1917 '18, Hindenburg Line, Italy 1917-18, Doiran 1917-18, Landing at Helles, Gaza, Jerusalem, Palestine 1917-18, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Mesopotamia 1915-18, North West Frontier India 1915 1916-17, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Caen, Rhine, North-West Europe 190 '44-45, Abyssinia 1941, El Alamein, Tebourba Gap, Hunt's Gap, Longstop Hill 1943, North Africa 1940-43, Sicily 1943, Salerno, Anzio, Cassino, Gothic Line, Italy 1943-45, Malta 1940-42, Malaya 1941-42, Hong Kong, Defence of Kohima, Burma 1943-45
  • 1. also emblazoned:
    • The Naval Crown superscribed "1st June 1794" - from the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
    • The Sphinx superscribed "Egypt" - from the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) & Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
    • The Royal Tiger superscribed "India" - from the Royal Hampshire Regiment

Preceded by:
Royal Regiment of Scotland		 Infantry Order of Precedence Succeeded by:
Duke of Lancaster's Regiment
(King's Lancashire and Border)

Lineage
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires The Queen's Regiment The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
The East Surrey Regiment The 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot
The 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot
The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment The 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot
The 97th (Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot
The Royal Sussex Regiment The 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot
The 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry)
The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) The 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
The 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
The Royal Hampshire Regiment The 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
The 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot

  1. ^ a b Sniper One by Sgt Dan Mills, August 2007 ISBN 978-0-718-14994-9
  2. ^ http://www.army.mod.uk/pwrr/2rd_battalion.htm

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