The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army based in the county of Kent in existence from 1881 to 1961....
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Royal West Kent Regiment to form the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, which was later merged, on 31 December 1966, with the Queen's Royal Surrey...
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The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1961 to 1966. Its lineage is continued by the Princess...
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the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (2nd Regiment of Foot), the PWRR is the most senior English line infantry regiment. The current regiment was...
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The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph is a First World War memorial dedicated to members of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and located...
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1st Battalion (Queen's Surreys) – amalgamated with 2nd Bn to form 1st Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment in 1992 2nd Battalion (Queen's Own Buffs) – amalgamated...
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The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum is the regimental museum of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. It is an independent museum located...
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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...
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The Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry was a British Army regiment formed in 1794. It served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. It amalgamated...
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the 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot to form the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in 1881. The regiment was originally raised by Colonel...
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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...
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Canada or Queen's Own Rifles of Toronto January 13, 1882 – 2nd Battalion, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada May 8, 1900 – 2nd Regiment Queen's Own Rifles of...
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The West Kent Militia (Light Infantry from 1853), later the 3rd Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) was an auxiliary regiment raised in...
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raised as an infantry battalion of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment (QORWK) in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1942. It served with...
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Thomas James Harris (category Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment soldiers)
years old, and a serjeant in the 6th (Service) Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, British Army during the First World War. On 9 August 1918...
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Ulster's) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1824 and amalgamated into the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) in 1881...
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Volunteer battalions that had previously been affiliated to the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, but whose recruiting areas (the boroughs of Deptford, Greenwich...
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Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Queen's Own Yeomanry Queen's Royal Hussars, see also Queen's Own Hussars Each division of the Royal Gurkha Rifles...
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and Kent Scottish (1937 – 1942) New Zealand Colonel-in-Chief, Corps of New Zealand Engineers (1938) United Kingdom Colonel-in-Chief, Queen's Own Royal West...
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John Coleman (VC) (category Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment soldiers)
Corporal in the 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot (later The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment), British Army during the Crimean War when...
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Frederick Holbourn (category Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment soldiers)
joined the army in 1915, served in France and Belgium with the 10th R.W.K. Regiment until he was totally disabled in 1918 with the loss of both legs and a...
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East Surrey Regiment The Royal Sussex Regiment The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Under the Defence...
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6th Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) (from 4 March 1940) 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment (from 5 September 1940) 21st...
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Fitzgerald Wintour (category Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment officers)
British military officer who served in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and the Royal Norfolk Regiment. Wintour was commissioned in the British...
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Sidney Keyes (category Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment officers)
Keyes, of The Homestead, West Hill, Dartford, Kent, a flour miller who had been a captain in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, and his second wife...
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Regiment, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York and Albany's Regiment of Foot, The Queen's Regiment of Foot, and The King's Own Regiment. Authorisation...
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Knight. Educated at Sevenoaks School, Knight joined the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment on the outbreak of the First World War, serving as a sniper;...
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due to amalgamated with the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, to form the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment on the 1 March 1961. Frederick...
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John Harman (British Army soldier) (category Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment soldiers)
29 years old, and a lance-corporal in the 4th Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, British Army during the Second World War when the following...
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Harry Andrews (category Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment officers)
joined up in October 1939 and was commissioned into the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment from 162 OCTU (The Honourable Artillery Company) on 21 September...
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