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The Buffs
(Royal East Kent Regiment) |
crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
United
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| How to find information about individuals who served in this corps |
| 1572 | Thomas Morgan's
Company formed for service in Holland |
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| 1605 | expanded to brigade of four regiments | |
| 1665 | The British brigade, numbering three English and four Scottish regiments were required to take the oath of allegiance to the States-General or be cashiered. The English refused and disbanded in Holland. The Scots continued in Dutch service until 1794 when they were placed on the British establishment as The Scotch Brigade. | |
| 1665.05.31 | The Holland
Regiment formed in England from repatriated veterans of the three disbanded English regiments in Dutch service; also known until 1751 by the names of colonels |
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| 1689 | Prince George of Denmark's Regiment | |
| 1751.07.01 | 3rd Regiment of Foot, or The Buffs | |
| 1782.08.31 | 3rd (the East Kent) Regiment of Foot | |
| 1881.07.01 | The Buffs
(East Kent Regiment) reorganised as the county regiment of East Kent, encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] |
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| 1935.06.03 | The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) | |
| 1961.03.01 | amalgamated with The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, to form The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment | |
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The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (Association site) | |
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The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), unofficial page by Peter Blanche. | |
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History of The Buffs, by Peter Blanche. | |
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History of The Buffs, by F.A. Mason. | |
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The Danish Connection (Association site) | |
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1st/3rd Foot (The East Kent, The Buff's) Regiment of Foot [in Australia] 1823-1827, by B & M Chapman. | |
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The Buffs in Australia - 1822 to 1827 (abstract: Sabretache, Vol. 36, no. 1, Jan/Mar 1995) | |
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The Buffs, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War) | |
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The Buffs, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) | |
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The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 1914-18, by Paul Reed | |
RHQ and
Depot: 
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| ? Depot Battalion
[1856-1871]
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| 45th Brigade Depot at Canterbury [1873-1881] | ||
| 3rd Regimental District at Canterbury [1881-1905] | ||
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| C Group, at Shorncliffe [1946-1948] | ||
| Home Counties Brigade, at Canterbury [1948-1961] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1572-1961] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1756-1758] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1678-1679, 1803-1815, 1857-1949] | ||
| Militia and Special Reserve: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (East Kent Regiment of Militia) [1881-1953] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1881-1888] | ||
| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
| 1st Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 2nd (The Weald of Kent) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1908-1921] | ||
| 4th/5th Battalion [1921-1961] | ||
| 5th (The Weald of Kent ) Battalion [1908-1921] | ||
| 5th Battalion [1956-1961] | ||
| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 2/4th Battalion [1914-1917]
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| 3/4th Battalion [1915-1919]
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| 2/5th Battalion [1914-1917]
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| 3/5th Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 5th Battalion [1939-1947]
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| 6th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 6th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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| 7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 7th Battalion [1940-1941]
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| 8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 8th Battalion [1940-1942]
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| 9th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1915]
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| 9th Battalion [1940-1946]
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| 10th (Royal East Kent and West Kent Yeomanry)
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| 10th Battalion [1940-1943]
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| 11th Battalion [1940-1940]
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| 30th Battalion [1941-1943]
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| 70th (Young Soldiers) Battalion [1940-1943]
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| Blenheim,
Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen,
Guadeloupe 1759,
Douro, Talavera, Albuhera,
Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula,
Punniar, Sevastopol,
Taku Forts, South
Africa 1879, Chitral,
Relief of Kimberley,
Paardeberg, South Africa 1900-02
The Great War (16 battalions)1: Aisne 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1915 '17, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Avre, Amiens, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Struma, Doiran 1918, Macedonia 1915-18, Gaza, Jerusalem, Tell 'Asur, Palestine 1917-18, Aden, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1915-18 The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, St. Omer-La Bassée, Withdrawal to Seine, North-West Europe 1940, Sidi Suleiman, Alem Hamza, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, El Agheila, Advance on Tripoli, Tebaga Gap, El Hamma, Akarit, Djebel Azzag 1943, Robaa Valley, Djebel Bech Chekaoui, Heidous, Medjez Plain, Longstop Hill 1943, North Africa 1941-43, Centuripe, Monte Rivoglia, Sicily 1943, Termoli, Trigno, Sangro, Anzio, Cassino I, Liri Valley, Aquino, Rome, Trasimene Line, Coriano, Monte Spaduro, Senio, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45, Leros, Middle East 1943, Malta 1940-42, Shweli, Myitson, Burma 1945 1. AO 55/1925 as amended by AO 426/1925. |
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Colours in St. Michael's Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral, by Peter Blanche. | |
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| Uniform: | ?-1881:
scarlet; facings: buff 1881-1890: scarlet; facings: white 1890-1953: scarlet; facings: buff 1953-1961: blue; facings: buff; piping: buff headdress:
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| 1906.11.09 | HM Frederick VIII, King of Denmark | |
| 1914.05.12 | HM Christian X, King of Denmark, KG, GCB, GCVO | |
| 1947.12.23 | HM Frederick IX, King of Denmark, KG, GCB, GCVO | |
| Note: The Danish connection began in 1689, when the regiment was named for Prince George of Denmark (d. 1708), consort of Princess Anne (Queen from 1702 to 1714) | ||
| 1572 | Thomas Morgan | |
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| 1665.05.31 | Col. Robert Sidney | |
| 1668.08.12 | Maj-Gen. Sir Walter Vane [also 6th Foot] | |
| 1673.12.12 | Lt-Gen. John (Sheffield), Duke of Buckingham (3rd Earl of Mulgrave), KG | |
| 1682.11.06 | Col. Philip (Stanhope), 2nd Earl of Chesterfield | |
| 1684.01.26 | Lt-Gen. John (Sheffield), Duke of Buckingham (3rd Earl of Mulgrave), KG [reappointed] | |
| 1685.10.23 | Brig-Gen. Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe | |
| 1688.12.31 | Gen. Charles Churchill | |
| 1707.02.26 | F.M. John (Campbell), 2nd Duke of Argyll, KG, KT (Earl of Islay, Lord Lorne) [also 4th Tp Horse Gds, R Horse Gds, 3rd Horse, Lorne's Foot(1), Lorne's Foot(2), Argyll's Foot; Gov. Minorca 1712-16; MGO 1725-40] | |
| 1711.02.26 | Col. John Selwyn | |
| 1713.04.14 | Brig-Gen. Archibald (Douglas), 2nd Earl of Forfar | |
| 1716.01.05 | Gen. Sir Charles Wills, KB [also 1st Gds, 30th Foot] | |
| 1726.08.26 | Col. Thomas (Pitt), 1st Earl of Londonderry | |
| 1729.11.24 | Lt-Gen. William Tatton | |
| 1737.06.27 | Lt-Gen. Thomas Howard | |
| 1749.08.21 | F.M. Sir George Howard, KB | |
| 1763.05.13 | Col. John Craufurd [also 85th Foot] | |
| 1764.11.22 | Maj-Gen. Ralph Burton [also 95th Foot] | |
| 1768.11.07 | F.M. Sir Jeffrey (Amherst), 1st Baron Amherst, KB [also 2nd Tp Horse Gds, 2nd Tp Horse Gren Gds, 15th Foot; Col.-in-Chief, 60th Foot; C-in-C North America; Gov. Virginia] | |
| 1779.04.21 | Lt-Gen. William Style | |
| 1786.04.18 | Gen. Thomas Hall [also 79th Foot] | |
| 1809.12.29 | Gen. Charles Leigh | |
| 1815.08.09 | Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, GCB, GCH | |
| 1829.12.21 | Gen. Sir George Don, GCB, GCH [also 36th Foot, 96th Foot, 9th West India Regt] | |
| 1832.01.30 | Gen. Kenneth Alexander (Howard), 1st Earl of Effingham, GCB | |
| 1845.03.18 | Gen. Sir Henry King, CB, KCH, KC | |
| 1854.07.25 | Lt-Gen. Sir Nathaniel Thorn, KCB, KH | |
| 1857.01.29 | Lt-Gen. Nicholas Wodehouse | |
| 1857.12.12 | Maj-Gen. Sir Henry Havelock, KCB [died at Lucknow] | |
| 1857.12.12 | Lt-Gen. Berkeley Drummond | |
| 1860.05.04 | Gen. Hon Charles Grey | |
| 1863.07.06 | Lt-Gen. John Wharton Frith | |
| 1864.09.09 | Lt-Gen. Day Hort Macdowall | |
| 1870.09.15 | Lt-Gen. Hon. Sir James Lindsay, KCMG | |
| 1874.08.14 | Gen. William Craig Emilius Napier [also KOSB] | |
| 1882.09.23 | Gen. Sir Julius Augustus Robert Raines, GCB | |
| 1909.04.12 | Maj-Gen. Frederick Taylor Hobson | |
| 1909.10.05 | Maj-Gen. Robert George Kekewich | |
| 1914.11.06 | Gen. Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy Paget, GCB, KCVO | |
| 1928.12.10 | Maj-Gen. Sir Arthur Lynden Lynden-Bell, KCB, KCMG | |
| 1937.01.02 | Maj-Gen. Sir John Kennedy, GBE, CB, CMG, DSO | |
| 1943.06.04 | Maj-Gen. Hon. Percy Gerald Scarlett, CB, MC | |
| 1953.06.04 | Maj-Gen. Valentine Boucher, CB, CBE [continued 1961 as Dep. Col. QO Buffs] | |
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Victoria Crosses [3rd Regiment], by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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Victoria Crosses [Buffs], by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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Victoria Crosses (Association site) | |
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VCs in the Buffs Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
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A Buffs Web Page [Roll of Honour] 1914-1919, by David New. | |
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Pvt. Wilfrid George Young, 1938-1946, by Michael S.Young. | |
| Motto: | Veteri frondescit honore | ||
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| Nicknames: | The Buffs, The
Buff Howards [adopted ca.1738-1744 to distinguish by facing colour
Thomas Howard's Regiment from Charles Howard's Regiment - The
Green Howards; in both instances the nickname evolved into the
formal title] The Nutcrackers [from the battle of Albuhera, 1811, when they cracked the heads of the enemy] |
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| Anniversaries: | Corunna (16 Jan.), Albuhera (16 May) | ||
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| Miscellaneous Tradition Links: | |||
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The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada |
1914-1961
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The Irish Fusiliers of Canada (Vancouver Regiment) | ||
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3rd Infantry Battalion (The Werriwa Regiment) | 1930-1960 | |
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Regimental Association of The Queen's Own Buffs | |
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The 3rd East Kent Regiment or Buffs [Napoleonic] | |
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3rd East Kent Regiment — The Buffs (American Contingent) [Napoleonic] | |
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6th Battalion The Buffs (Great War Association) | |
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The Buffs Regimental Museum, Canterbury (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Museum, Dover (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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The Buffs Museum, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing) | |
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The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Museum, Dover (Simonides listing) | |
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St. Michael's Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral, by Peter Blanche. | |
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Warriors' Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral (Association site) | |
| Regimental Journal: | ||
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The dragon. | |
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| Manuscripts and Archives: | ||
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Orderly Books of the Crown Forces in America 1775-1784, compiled by John K. Robertson, Don Hagist, Todd Braisted, and Don Londahl-Smidt (RevWar'75) | |
