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57-482: Tangier Regiment may refer to: Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) , known as the Tangier Regiment between 1661 and 1684 2nd Tangier Regiment (1680–1684) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tangier Regiment . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

114-470: A "general warrant" to enforce its laws. These warrants were broad in nature and did not have specifics as to why they were issued or what the arrest was being made for. A general warrant placed almost no limitations on the search or arresting authority of a soldier or sheriff. This concept had become a serious problem when those in power issued general warrants to have their enemies arrested when no wrongdoing had been done. The Parliament of Great Britain passed

171-656: A while by Major-General Brian Horrocks . The division was later sent to North Africa in mid-1942 to join the British Eighth Army and fought in the Battle of Alam el Halfa and later in the Second Battle of El Alamein where the 131st Brigade was assigned to the 7th Armoured Division and would remain with them for the rest of the war. The brigade participated in the Tunisian and Italian Campaigns and

228-553: Is usually issued by a court and is directed to a sheriff , a constable , or a police officer. Warrants normally issued by a court include search warrants , arrest warrants , and execution warrants . In the United Kingdom , senior public appointments are made by warrant under the royal sign-manual , the personal signature of the monarch , on the recommendation of the government. In an interesting survival from medieval times, these warrants abate (lose their force) on

285-535: The 131st Infantry Brigade , which was a part of the 44th (Home Counties) Infantry Division , a 1st Line Territorial Army division. The brigade was sent, along with the rest of the division, to France in 1940 to join the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and were quickly involved in the Battle of France and subsequent Dunkirk evacuation . They arrived in England and the division was led for

342-818: The 22nd Brigade in the 7th Division in October 1914 for service on the Western Front. It fought at the Battle of Ypres, Battle of Aubers Ridge, Battle of Festubert, Battle of Loos and the Battle of the Somme until November 1917, when it was sent to the Italian Front , taking part in the battles of the Piave and Vittorio Veneto . The 1/4th Battalion moved to India as part of the Surrey Brigade in

399-779: The 6th (Bermondsey) and 7th (Southwark) battalions of the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) and joined the 5th Battalion in 131st Brigade . The 1st Battalion was serving in British India on the outbreak of the Second World War but did not see action until 1942 against the Imperial Japanese Army . The 1st Queens fought in the Burma Campaign throughout the war as part of the 33rd Indian Infantry Brigade , 7th Indian Infantry Division , of

456-652: The Battle of Alexandria , the Siege of Fort Julien and the Siege of Alexandria . During the Napoleonic Wars , the regiment first fought in the Peninsular War at the battles of Vimeiro and Corunna . It then took part in the disastrous Walcheren Campaign before returning to the Peninsula to fight at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro , the second Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo , the Battle of Salamanca and

513-618: The Battle of Dunkirk where they suffered heavy casualties due to the men having very little training. The division was disbanded shortly after returning to England and the 35th Brigade was later redesignated the 169th Infantry Brigade . The 169th Brigade was to serve with the 56th Division for the rest of the war in the Italian Campaign in battles at Salerno , Anzio and in the final Allied offensive in Italy, Operation Grapeshot . In January 1944 Lieutenant Alec George Horwood of

570-706: The British Fourteenth Army under Lieutenant General William "Bill" Slim . The 2nd Battalion, initially commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Ross until April 1940, spent the early years of the war in the Middle East and Syria before also going out to the Far East . They were part of the 16th Brigade , 6th Infantry Division which was later redesignated as the 70th Infantry Division and were involved in Operation Thursday ,

627-587: The Communist guerrillas during the Malayan Emergency from 1954 to 1957. In 1957, it returned to Germany, where, in 1959, it was amalgamated with 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, to form the 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment (less Territorials). When the QRSs merged into the new larger Queen's Regiment , the battalion became the 1st (Queen's Royal Surreys) Battalion , but this subtitle

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684-886: The Glorious Revolution , it fought in Ireland for the new king, William III , defending the besieged Derry in 1689 and at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. From 1692 to 1696 it fought in Flanders in the Nine Years' War , at the Battle of Landen and the recapture of Namur in 1695. During the War of Spanish Succession it served in the Iberian campaign, at Cadiz , Vigo , the sieges of Valencia de Alcantara , Alburquerque, Badajoz , Alcantara and Ciudad Rodrigo , and

741-880: The Home Counties Division in October 1914 and remained there throughout the war, serving on the North West Frontier , and was afterwards involved in the Third Afghan War in 1919. The 1/5th Battalion also went to India with the Home Counties Division, but then transferred to Mesopotamia in December 1915. As soon as the 1st-Line Territorials had gone overseas, the Territorial Associations started raising 2nd- and 3rd-Line battalions, designated

798-543: The Mulberry harbour after D-Day , and then defended Antwerp late in the war. The regiment raised many other battalions during the war, mainly for home defence or as training units. None of these units saw active service, they remained in the United Kingdom for the duration of war. They fulfilled a role of supplying the battalions overseas with trained infantrymen or were converted into other roles. For example,

855-564: The North West Europe Campaign . In December 1944, due to heavy casualties and a shortage of infantrymen in the British Army, the 1/6th and 1/7th Battalions were replaced by 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment and 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry , both from the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division . The 1/6th and 1/7th would spend the rest of the war as training units with the 50th Infantry Division. Meanwhile

912-931: The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment , the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) to form the Queen's Regiment . Following a further amalgamation in 1992 with the Royal Hampshire Regiment , the lineage of the regiment is continued today by the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) . The regiment was raised in 1661 by Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough as The Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Foot on Putney Heath (then in Surrey ) specifically to garrison

969-633: The Revenue Act 1767 ( 7 Geo. 3 . c. 46) which reaffirmed the legality of writs of assistance , or general search warrants , and gave customs officials broad powers to search houses and businesses for smuggled goods. This law was one of the key acts of Great Britain which led to the American Revolution , and is the direct reason that the American Founding Fathers ensured that general warrants would be illegal in

1026-594: The Siege of San Sebastián and, 1814, the battles of Orthes and Toulouse . The regiment was on garrison duty in Baluchistan when the First Afghan War broke out in 1839. It formed part of the force that attacked the previously impregnable city of Ghazni , taking the city by storm because the army lacked siege equipment, and opening the way to Kabul . It returned to India in November 1839, storming

1083-582: The United States will take the approximate form of: "This Court orders the Sheriff or Constable to find the named person, wherever he may be found, and deliver said person to the custody of the Court." Generally, a U.S. arrest warrant must contain the caption of the court issuing the warrant, the name (if known) of the person to be arrested, the offense charged, the date of issue, the officer(s) to whom

1140-590: The Western Front where it served in 34th Division under French command before taking part in the final advance to victory in November 1918. The 3/4th Bn was sent to the Western Front as reinforcements in August 1917, where it joined 21st Division and fought at Broodseinde and Cambrai . It was broken up to provide drafts in February 1918. There were also 19th and 20th TF Battalions formed from

1197-599: The 1/5th were detached from 131 Brigade to 22nd Armoured Brigade mounted in Kangaroos in April 1945 for the final weeks of the war and the fighting towards Hamburg. The regiment also raised the 2/5th, 2/6th, and 2/7th which were all 2nd Line Territorial Army battalions serving in the 35th Infantry Brigade of the 12th (Eastern) Infantry Division , a 2nd Line Territorial Army duplicate of the 44th (Home Counties) Division. They were also sent to France in 1940 and were involved in

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1254-587: The 1/6th Battalion was awarded the Victoria Cross whilst fighting in the Burma Campaign whilst attached to the 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment . 63rd (Queen's) Searchlight Regiment served in Anti-Aircraft Command during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz , then converted into 127th (Queen's) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery and manned Bofors guns to protect

1311-460: The 13th Battalion, raised in 1940, was assigned–in an infantry capacity–to the 80th Infantry (Reserve) Division . The 14th Battalion was raised in Dorchester in early July 1940 commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Wilkinson . and in October the battalion was assigned to the 201st Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) and commenced anti-invasion duties. On 1 December 1941 the battalion

1368-569: The 2/4th, 2/5th etc . The 4th Queen's was unusual in sending its 3rd-Line battalion overseas, so a 4/4th Bn was raised to train recruits; eventually it absorbed the 3/5th Bn as the 4th Reserve Battalion. The 2/4th Battalion saw more varied service than any of the other Queen's TF battalions, in the Gallipoli Campaign , in Egypt , and Palestine , all as part of the 53rd (Welsh) Division , before being sent back as reinforcements to

1425-689: The 5th and 6th battalions of the East Surrey Regiment. However, in the reorganisation of the Territorial Army's infantry in the late 1930s, the 4th Queen's was transferred to the Royal Artillery and converted into the 63rd (Queen's) Searchlight Regiment . The regiment was also reassigned the 22nd and 24th (County of London) battalions of the London Regiment , which disbanded in 1938. These battalions became

1482-653: The Home Service men of the regiment. The Queen's also formed a number of battalions of the New Army, or ' Kitchener's Army ' Returning prisoners of war were awarded a "Welcome Home Medal" at a reception in Guildford in January 1919. The medal has the regimental badge on one side and the inscription, "Prisoners of War The Queens Regiment Welcome Home" on the reverse and is dated MCMXVIII. The 1st Battalion spent

1539-791: The Militia became the Special Reserve and the Volunteers became part of the Territorial Force (TF). The regiment now had the 3rd Battalion (Special Reserve), with the 4th Battalion (TF) at the Old Barracks in Croydon and the 5th Battalion (TF) at Sandfield Terrace in Guildford (since demolished). The 1st Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 3rd Brigade in the 1st Division in August 1914, and spent

1596-816: The United States by ratifying the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1791. Under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution a warrant is broadly required, which particularly describes the place to be searched, and the persons, or things, to be seized; no warrants may be issued without probable cause , and support by testimony before a judge. The courts have recognized many warrantless searches , including exceptions for routine administrative or inventory searches, searches made under exigent circumstances, and searches made with consent. A typical arrest warrant in

1653-579: The armed forces. Under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel F. L. O. Attye, the battalion arrived at the Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda (aboard HMS Orontes from Gibraltar, via Madeira) on 15 July 1864, in the midst of one of these epidemics and its losses in Bermuda included Assistant Surgeon James Murray Chalk at St. George's Garrison on 8 February 1865 and Douglas James Mounteny Rose, the five-year-old son of Lieutenant-Colonel Rose, who died

1710-710: The border to Afghanistan. The 2nd Battalion fought in the Third Anglo-Burmese War from 1886 to 1888 and in South Africa from 1899 to 1904 including during the Second Boer War (1899–1902). From October 1910 until October 1912, it was stationed in the Imperial fortress colony of Gibraltar . From October 1912 through 1914 it was stationed in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda , as

1767-449: The city of Khelat en route , and avoiding destruction along with the rest of Elphinstone's army . The regiment was shipped to the Cape Colony during the Eighth Xhosa War in 1851. On 25 February 1852 a detachment of 51 men under the command of Ensign Boyland were aboard HMS Birkenhead travelling from Simon's Town to Port Elizabeth when the ship struck rocks. The troops were assembled on deck and remained at attention to afford

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1824-418: The colony. In 1685, it was given the Royal title the Queen Dowager's Regiment of Foot (after Queen Catherine, widow of Charles II) and in 1703 became The Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot . In 1715, it was renamed The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Foot after Caroline of Ansbach , then Princess of Wales, and was re-designated The Queen's Own Regiment of Foot in 1727 when the Princess became Queen. It

1881-540: The death of the sovereign if they have not already been executed. This particularly applied to death warrants in the days when England authorized capital punishment . Perhaps the most well-known example of this occurred on 17 November 1558, when England was under the rule of a Catholic queen, Mary I , daughter of Henry VIII and the Spanish Catholic Catherine of Aragon . Several Protestants convicted of heresy had been condemned to die. They were tied to stakes in Smithfield , an open market area in central London , and

1938-436: The embarked women and children time to take their place in the lifeboats. Shortly after this the ship broke up and the vast majority of the troops on board were either drowned or fell victim to sharks. The bravery of the troops, made up of cadres from ten different regiments, led to the naming of the Birkenhead Drill . It once again became the 1st Battalion when the 2nd Battalion was reformed in 1857, and went to China in 1860 at

1995-476: The entire war on the Western Front . The battalion saw action at the Battle of Mons , the Battle of the Marne , the Battle of the Aisne , the Battle of Ypres , the Battle of Aubers Ridge , the Battle of Festubert , Battle of Loos , The Hindenburg Line , the Battle of Bellecourt, the Battle of Broodseinde , the Battle of Passchendaele and the Battle of Arras . The 2nd Battalion was in South Africa when war broke out and landed at Zeebrugge as part of

2052-430: The firewood bundles were about to be lit, when a royal messenger rode up to announce that Mary I had died: the warrants for their death had lost their force. The first formal act of Mary's successor, the Protestant Elizabeth I , daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn , was to decline to re-issue the warrants; the Protestants were released a few weeks later. For many years, the English, later British, government had used

2109-463: The following day. The battalion lost fifty-two officers and men in the epidemic. The battalion departed Bermuda for Cork, Ireland, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Werge, aboard HMS Orontes on 3 November 1866. The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, which gave it a depot at Stoughton Barracks in Guildford from 1873, or by the Childers reforms of 1881 – as it already possessed two battalions, there

2166-425: The inter-war years on garrison duty, both in Britain and overseas. The 2nd Battalion took part in the Waziristan campaign of 1919–1920, attempting to pacify the tribal areas during the unrest following the Third Afghan War . It was in Palestine during the Insurgency of 1936–1939 . The 4th and 5th Battalions were both reformed in the Territorial Army , assigned to the 131st (Surrey) Infantry Brigade , alongside

2223-438: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tangier_Regiment&oldid=1195378853 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Queen%27s Royal Regiment (West Surrey) The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

2280-420: The new English acquisition of Tangier , part of Catherine of Braganza 's dowry when she married King Charles II . From this service, it was also known as the Tangier Regiment . As was usual at the time, it was also named after its current colonel , from one of whom, Percy Kirke , it acquired its nickname Kirke's Lambs . It was withdrawn along with the rest of the Tangier Garrison when Charles II abandoned

2337-421: The regiment's service, it was granted the distinction of wearing a Naval Crown superscribed 1 June 1794 on its colours. The regiment was then reunited and sent to the West Indies where it took part in the capture of Guadeloupe in 1794, although the occupation was short-lived owing to outbreaks of disease, particularly yellow fever , among the troops, and the capture of Trinidad in 1797. A second battalion

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2394-412: The regiments involved in putting down the Gordon Riots . On the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars , detachments were in the West Indies and acting as marines in the Channel Fleet, notably at the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794, where they served on Howe's flagship, Queen Charlotte and also on board Russell , Defence , Royal George and Majestic . In recognition of

2451-440: The regular infantry battalion of the Bermuda Garrison . While in Bermuda, the Edison Studios filmed The Relief of Lucknow and For Valour there, and was provided extensive support from the garrison, with parts of Prospect Camp providing sets, and personnel from the 2nd Battalion appearing as extras. A 3rd ( Militia ) Battalion was formed from the former 2nd Royal Surrey Militia, with headquarters at Guildford. The Battalion

2508-451: The second Chindits campaign. The Chindits were the creation of Brigadier Orde Wingate . After suffering heavy casualties in the Chindits campaign, 2nd Queen's reverted to being an ordinary infantry battalion, nicknamed PBI (Poor Bloody Infantry), and served with 29th Infantry Brigade , part of 36th Infantry Division from May 1945 onwards. The 1/5th, 1/6th, and 1/7th were all 1st Line Territorial Army battalions that were serving in

2565-465: The time of the Second Opium War , fighting at the Third Battle of Taku Forts and the capture of Beijing . It was stationed in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda from 1864 to 1866. Although too far North for yellow fever to establish itself in perpetuity, the disease was introduced to Bermuda several times during the 19th century by mail boats from the West Indies, causing endemics that resulted in many deaths, most particularly among members of

2622-444: The unsuccessful Siege of Burgos . By the winter of 1812, the regiment was so depleted by casualties and disease that four companies were amalgamated with the equally weakened 2nd Battalion, 53rd Foot , to form the 2nd Provisional Battalion. Six cadre companies returned home to re-form. As part of the 4th Division , the Provisional Battalion took part in the Wellington's triumph at the Battle of Vittoria on 21 June 1813, followed by

2679-402: The warrant is directed, and the signature of the magistrate. Warrants may also be issued by other government entities, including legislatures , since most have the power to compel the attendance of their members. When a legislature issues a warrant, it is called a call of the house . The person being investigated, arrested, or having their property seized, pursuant to a warrant is given

2736-452: Was a line infantry regiment of the English and later the British Army from 1661 to 1959. It was the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, behind only the Royal Scots in the British Army line infantry order of precedence . In 1959, the 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, amalgamated with

2793-405: Was amalgamated with the East Surrey Regiment , to form the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment . The regiment shipped to Tangier where it remained until the port was evacuated in 1684, when it returned to England. It took part in the suppression of the Monmouth Rebellion , fighting at the Battle of Sedgemoor , where it earned a widespread (but probably exaggerated ) reputation for brutality. After

2850-488: Was converted into the 99th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery , and it subsequently served in Italy. The 2nd Battalion was disbanded in 1948 and its personnel transferred to 1st Battalion (which had previously been reduced to nil strength in 1947). The 1st Battalion served in Berlin during the blockade to 1949 then Iserlohn in BAOR ( British Army of the Rhine ) part of 5th Infantry Brigade , 2nd Infantry Division (Crossed Keys) until 1953. The 1st Battalion fought

2907-462: Was embodied in December 1899 to provide troops for the Second Boer War , 550 men embarked for South Africa in February 1900; and returned to the United Kingdom in May 1902, when it received a public welcome and reception at Guildford. Under the Childers Reforms, two battalions of the Volunteer Force were attached to the regiment in 1883. These had originally been raised in 1859–60 in response to an invasion scare. The 1st Volunteer Battalion (VB)

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2964-407: Was formed from the 2nd Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) , at the Old Barracks , Mitcham Road, Croydon , while the 2nd VB was formed from the 4th Surrey RVC at Reigate Both Volunteer Battalions contributed to service companies of volunteers who served alongside the regulars during the Second Boer War , and received the battle honour for the campaign. Under the Haldane Reforms of 1908

3021-462: Was formed in 1795 and stationed in Guernsey before being shipped to Martinique , where it was disbanded in 1797, its personnel being absorbed by 1st Battalion. The regiment was transferred to Ireland in 1798 where it helped put down the Irish rebellion and then took part in the unsuccessful 1799 Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland . In 1800, it was part of the abortive expedition to Belle Isle , from which it sailed to Egypt where it fought at

3078-420: Was no need for it to amalgamate with another regiment. Under the reforms it became The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment on 1 July 1881. In 1897–98, a battalion took part in the Tirah Expedition on the North-West Frontier . The 1st battalion was stationed at Malta from 1891, then in India where it was posted at Rawalpindi until late 1902 when it moved to Peshawar near the historic Khyber Pass on

3135-512: Was omitted on 1 July 1968. Today the regiment's successors can be traced to the 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment . The Surrey Infantry Museum was based at Clandon Park House , near Guildford until it was destroyed in a fire in April 2015. The regiment's battle honours were as follows: The following members of the Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross : Regimental titles in italics indicate they were disbanded or renumbered before 1881. Warrant (law) A warrant

3192-437: Was ranked as 2nd Foot in the clothing regulations of 1747 , and was renamed 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot by Royal warrant in 1751. In the Childers reforms of 1881 it became the county regiment of West Surrey , named The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment . In 1921, its title was slightly altered to The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) . By 1950 it was known as The Queen's Royal Regiment . In 1959, it

3249-405: Was virtually destroyed in the disastrous Battle of Almansa . In the campaign in the Low Countries in 1703, it defended Tongres against overwhelming odds, giving Lord Overkirk time to re-group his forces, until it was eventually captured. It was for this action that it was awarded its Royal title and its mottoes. It spent most of the remainder of the 18th century on garrison duty, being one of

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