Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

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Official name

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

Colonel-in-Chief

HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

Nicknames

The Tigers

Motto

Anniversaries

Marches

Quick: The Farmers Boy Quick: The Soldiers of the Queen

Description

Infantry regiment

Creation date

1992

Reason for creation

Formed by the amalgamation of two regiments due to the Options for Change defence cuts.

The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen's Division. It was formed in 1992 by the amalgamation of two other regiments:

Through its ancestry via the Queen's Regiment, the PWRR is the most senior English infantry regiment. The current regiment was named in honour of the late Diana, 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 further announced in 2005 that this would not take place, and the PWRR would remain unaffected.

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 ceased to be Colonel-in-chief and the Queen of Denmark has remained its colonel-in-chief since.

The Regiment is primarily based in Kent and is comprised of three battalions, 1st Battalion Mechanised infantry (Recently returned from Iraq), 2nd Battalion (Serving in Iraq since January 2005) and 3rd Battalion Territorial Army Infantry (Members of which also serving with 1st Battalion in Iraq). There are two separate Territorial Army companies: B Company of the London Regiment and C (Duke of Connaught's Own) Company of the Royal Rifle Volunteers.

Victoria Cross

In 2005, Pte 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.

Battle Honours

(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 19140, 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