A HISTORY OF SURREY 



connexion of the latter with Surrey before, but there was a real con- 

 nexion between the two battalions. 



In 1702, at the beginning of the war of the Spanish Succession, 

 three regiments, which would now be called Marines, were raised for 

 service with the fleet. They took part in Ormonde's expedition to Vigo, 

 in Rooke's capture of Gibraltar, in the Prince of Darmstadt's and Peter- 

 borough's capture and defence of Barcelona, and in other operations in 

 the Mediterranean. After the Peace of Utrecht there was an intention 

 of disbanding them, but George the First's government, apprehensive of 

 a Jacobite rising and a Swedish war, kept them together as three regi- 

 ments of the line. They were subsequently numbered the Thirtieth, 

 Thirty-first and Thirty-second. The Thirty-first fought in the war of 

 the Austrian Succession, and distinguished itself at Dettingen and at 

 Fontenoy, suffering so severely in the latter defeat that it was not sent 

 to Scotland in 1745. At the opening of the Seven Years* War the 

 regiment was however quartered in Scotland. It was determined to 

 raise a second battalion, which was recruited principally in Glasgow. 

 In 1758 this second battalion was separated from the other, and called 

 the Seventieth regiment of the line. It was practically a Scotch regi- 

 ment, but in 1782 George III. was pleased to order that all regi- 

 ments should have some territorial or other title, besides their number, 

 and the Seventieth was called the Surrey regiment, the Thirty^first the 

 Huntingdonshire. The Surrey regiment was in the West Indies during 

 the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, and took part in the capture 

 of Guadaloupe. It lost heavily by war and climate. A dep6t was 

 established in 18 10, not in Surrey but at Ayr. This was moved to 

 Stirling in 18 11, and the regiment itself returned to the same place, 

 and in 18 12 received the certainly more appropriate title of the 

 Glasgow Lowland Regiment. In 1825, however, the name of the 

 Surrey Regiment was restored to it — a purely fancy designation. The 

 Thirty-first meanwhile had seen severe service all through the Penin- 

 sular war, a second battalion having been raised for it, nominally the 

 Huntingdonshire, at Chester in 1804. The regiment also took part in 

 the American war, one battalion being with Burgoyne when he sur- 

 rendered at Saratoga. The second battalion was disbanded in 18 14. 

 One wing of the regiment was in the Kent East Indiaman when she 

 was burnt in 1824 at sea. The first battalion of the Thirty-first was 

 in the first Afghan war and in the Seikh wars, at Sebastopol and in 

 China. The Seventieth was at Peshawar when the Indian Mutiny 

 broke out in 1857, and also served in the New Zealand war. The 

 final amalgamation was a curious bringing together of battalions 

 separated since 1758. The regimental headquarters are at Kingston, 

 which is only ' East Surrey ' by a figure of speech. The headquarters 

 of the West Surrey are more properly at Guildford. 



All the troops in the county are under the Home District com- 

 mand. Guildford is the depot of the No. 2 Regimental District, which 

 comprises the Royal West Surrey regiment, first and second battalions, 



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