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The
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment (Association site) |
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History
of The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, by F.A. Mason. |
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The
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, by Peter Blanche. |
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The
Queen's Own Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the
Great War). |
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The
Queen's Own Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath
1914-1918) |
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The
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 1914-1919, by Janet &
Richard Mason |
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RHQ and
Depot: |
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RHQ:  |
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50th Regimental
District at Maidstone [1881-1905] |
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C Group,
at Shorncliffe [1946-1948] |
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Home Counties
Brigade, at Canterbury [1948-1961] |
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Regulars: |
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1st
Battalion [1881-1961] |
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2nd
Battalion [1881-1948] |
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Militia
and Special Reserve: |
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3rd
Battalion (West Kent Regiment of Militia) [1881-1953] |
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4th
Battalion [1881-1894] |
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Territorials and Volunteers:
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1st
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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2nd
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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3rd
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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4th
Volunteer Battalion [1900-1908] |
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4th
Battalion [1908-1947] |
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4th/5th
Battalion [1947-1967] |
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5th
Battalion [1908-1947] |
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6th
(Cyclist) Battalion [1908-1910] |
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20th
London Regiment (The Queen's Own) [1916-1935] |
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Hostilities-Only
Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
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2/4th Battalion [1915-1918]
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3/4th Battalion [1914-1918]
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4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
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2/5th Battalion [1915-1917]
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5th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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6th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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6th Battalion [1939-1947]
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7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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7th Battalion [1939-1947]
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8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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8th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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9th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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9th Battalion [1940-1942]
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10th (Kent County) (Service) Battalion
[1915-1919] |
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10th Battalion [1940-1942]
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11th (Lewisham) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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12th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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13th (Service) Battalion [1918-1918]
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14th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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2/20th (County of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment [1916-1919]
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20th (Reserve) (County of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment [1916-1919]
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30th Battalion [1941-1943]
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50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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70th (Young Soldier) Battalion
[1940-1942] |
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1st (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
[1916-1917] |
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[combined battle
honours of 50th Regiment and 97th
Regiment, plus:]
Egypt
1882, Nile 1884-85,
South Africa 1900-02
The Great War [18 battalions]: Mons,
Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée,
Messines 1914 '17, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Hill 60, Gravenstafel,
St. Julien, Frezenberg, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916
'18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette,
Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras
1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, Oppy, Pilckem, Langemarck
1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Passchendaele, Cambrai
1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Avre, Villers Bretonneux, Lys,
Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Amiens, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy,
Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France
and Flanders 1914-18,
Italy 1917-18, Suvla,
Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Rumani,
Egypt 1915-16, Gaza,
El Mughar, Jerusalem, Jericho, Tell 'Asur, Palestine 1917-18,
Defence of Kut al
Amara, Sharqat,
Mesopotamia 1915-18
Afghanistan 1919
The Second World War: Defence
of Escaut, Forêt de Nieppe, North-West Europe 1940,
Alam el Halfa, El
Alamein, Djebel Abiod, Djebel Azzag 1942, Oued Zarga, Djebel
Ang, Medjez Plain, Longstop Hill 1943, Si Abdallah, North
Africa 1942-43, Centuripe,
Monte Rivoglia, Sicily 1943, Termoli,
San Salvo, Sangro, Romagnoli, Impossible Bridge, Villa Grande,
Cassino1, Castle
Hill, Liri Valley, Piedimonte Hill, Trasimene Line, Arezzo,
Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Casa fortis, Rimini Line, Savio
Bridgehead, Monte Pianoereno, Monte Spaduro, Senio, Argenta Gap,
Italy 1943-45, Greece
1944-45, Leros,
Malta 1940-42,
North Arakan, Razabil, Mayu
Tunnels, Defence of Kohima, Taungtha, Sittang 1945, Burma
1943-45
1. awarded for Cassino I and Cassino II.
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
1881-1953:
scarlet; facings: blue
1953-1961: blue; facings: blue; piping: scarlet
headdress:
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1881.07.01 |
[1st Bn:]
Gen. Sir Edward Walter Forestier-Walker, KCB |
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1881.07.01 |
[2nd Bn:]
Gen. John Maxwell Perceval, CB [also 12th Foot] |
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1881.07.28 |
[1st Bn:]
Gen. Hon. Sir Francis Colborne, KCB [also R Warwickshire
Regt] |
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1888.02.28 |
Gen. William Richard Preston [also
R Munster Fus] |
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1890.10.05 |
Gen. Sir Folwer Burton, KCB |
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1904.04.03 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Edmund Leach, KCB |
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1921.11.11 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson,
KCB |
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1927.12.15 |
Lt-Gen. Sir James Wilton O'Dowda, KCB, CSI,
CMG |
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1936.09.01 |
Gen. Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, GCB, CMG,
DSO [Gov. & C-in-C Malta] |
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1946.10.01 |
Brig. Noel Irwine Whitty, DSO |
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1949.01.17 |
Lt-Gen. Sir William Pasfield Oliver, GBE,
KCB, KCMG |
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1959.10.15 |
Maj-Gen. Dennis Edmund Blaquiere Talbot,
CB, CBE, DSO, MC, DL [continued 1961 as Assoc.
Col. QO Buffs] |
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Victoria
Crosses [Royal West Kent Regiment], by Mike
Chapman (VC Reference). |
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Victoria
Crosses [Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt],
by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). |
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Victoria
Crosses (Association site) |
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VCs
in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regimental Museum, by Iain
Stewart. |
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Honours,
Rewards, Decorations, 1914-1918, by Janet and Richard Mason |
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Donald
John Dean, VC, (Sittingbourne Remembers) |
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Sittingbourne
Remembers [WW1] |
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Roll
of Honour, 1914-1918, by Janet and Richard Mason |
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Motto: |
Quo fas et gloria
ducunt; Invicta |
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Nicknames: |
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Anniversaries: |
Corunna
(16 Jan.), Sevastopol
(8 Sep.) |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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Regimental
Journal: |
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The Queen's Own gazette. |
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Full Histories:
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Chaplin, Howard Douglas. The Queen's
Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 1881-1914. [Maidstone] : Regimental
History Committee, 1959. |
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Chaplin, Howard Douglas. The Queen's
Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 1920-1950. London : M. Joseph,
1954. |
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Chaplin, Howard Douglas. The Queen's
Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 1951-1961. Maidstone : Regimental
Museum Committee [pub. by the Queen's Own Museum Committee, 1964. |
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Holloway, Roger. The Queen's Own Royal
West Kent Regiment, the Dirty Half-Hundred (the 50th/97th Regiment
of Foot). London : Leo Coope, 1973. (Famous regiments)
ISBN: 0850521416 |
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Short Histories:
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A short history of The Queen's Own
(Royal West Kent Regiment). London : Gale & Polden, 1920. |
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A short history of The Queen's Own
Royal West Kent Regiment. Maidstone : Kent Messenger, 1930. |
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Whitty, Noel Irwine. A short history
of The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. [s.l. : s.n.],
1949. |
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Chaplin, Howard Douglas. The Queen's
Own Royal West Kent Regiment : a short account of its origins, service
and campaigns 1756-1956 [s.l. : s.n., K. Messenger),
1956. |
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2nd Battalion Queen's Own Royal West
Kent Regiments, Peshawar, 1911. Paris : Evrard, 1911. |
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2nd Battalion The Queen's Own Royal
Kent Regiment, Ballykinlar, Ireland. London : Gale & Polden,
1924. |
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Militia:
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Bonhote, J. Historical records of
the West Kent Militia, with some account of the earlier defensive
levies in Kent. London : Printed for the subscribers by Hudson
& Kearns, 1909. |
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First World War:
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Atkinson, Christopher Thomas. The
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 1914-1919. London :
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1924. {full
text} |
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Molony, C.V. Invicta : with the First
Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in the Great War.
London : Nisbit & Co., 1923. |
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Wenyon, H.J. ; Brown, H. S. The history
of the Eighth Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment,
1914-1919. London : Hazell, Watson & Viney, 1921. |
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Russell, R. O. The history of the
11th (Lewisham) Battalion, The Queen's Own, Royal West Kent Regiment.
London : Lewisham Newspaper Co., 1934. |
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Second World War:
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Riches, Paul. The spirit lives on
: a short history and photographic record of the 6th Battalion, the
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1939-1946. London : T.
Donovan Pub., 1992. ISBN: 1871085098 |
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Other Wars: |
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Walker, Adrian ; Harper, Ron ; Riches, Paul.
A country regiment : 1st Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West
Kent Regiment, Malaya, 1951-1954. [England] : Brockley Press,
2001. ISBN: 0952714620 |
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Special Topics: |
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Edwards, H. N. A short record of the
colours of the Queen's own royal West Kent Regiment. [London?
: s.n.], 1933. [reprinted from The Queen's
Own gazette.] |
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Edwards, H.N. The Queen's Own Royal
West Kent Regiment Medal Roll. Part Two. [s.l. : s.n.],
1933. [In: The Queen's Own gazette] |
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Collins, Kenneth J. Queen's Own Royal
West Kent Regimental Museum. Derby : English Life Publications,
1973. |
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Fiction: |
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Kingsmill, Arthur G. The silver badge.
Ilfracombe : A.H. Stockwell, 1966. [2nd Bn in siege
of Kut] |
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by A. Melville-Brown 
