Cap Badge - The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Cap badge of the pattern in use 1898 to 1920. The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was an infantry regiment of the English and later the British Army from 1661 to 1959. In 1959, it was amalgamated with the East Surrey Regiment, to form a single county regiment called the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment which was, however, on 31 December 1966 amalgamated again with 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 further amalgamations 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 Queen's was sometimes known as the Mutton Lancers, after their "Lamb and Flag" cap badge. The Paschal Lamb is said to be the oldest of all regimental badges and its association with the Queens has two possible origins. One account says that the lamb was the symbol of the House of Braganza and was confirmed as the badge of the Regiment in 1751 in recognition of its service in Tangier, a city associated with the House of Braganza (see below). An alternative version suggests it was adopted much earlier as a symbol of the Regiment’s employment against the Moors in Tangier. Note that the flag was supported on the lamb’s right shoulder in most versions of the badge, but on the left between 1898 and 1921. Also, the flag had a swallow-tail end until the 1921 change when it became squared. In 1898 the name remained the same but it adopted a new badge, the lamb above a scroll bearing THE QUEENS. In 1921 the name changed again, to the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), the badge being simply the lamb on a torse. In 1959 the Regiment amalgamated with the East Surrey Regiment to become the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment and adopting a new badge, a composite of the two amalgamated units. The Paschal Lamb facing left, bearing on its left shoulder a swallow-tailed flag, all in gilding metal. Below, a scroll in white metal inscribed THE QUEEN’S. Pair of lugs to reverse.