Cap Badge - The East Surrey Regiment. This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $20.00 on e-Bay in the Spring/Summer of 2017. This badge was deemed irrelevant to the museum. The money was used to purchase relevant badges for the collection. King's crown type bimetal cap badge of the regiment. The central shield bears the Arms of Guildford (Kipling and King reference 640) The East Surrey Regiment was an infantry regiment in the British Army formed in 1881 from the amalgamation of the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot and the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot. In 1959, it was amalgamated with the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) to form the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment which was later merged with the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment to form the Queen's Regiment. However, the Queen's Regiment was amalgamated with the Royal Hampshire Regiment to form the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.