East Africa, Cameroon and West Africa: WO 95/5289-5388 Additiona… WW1 Royal West Kent Regiment Roll of Honour CLICK HERE A complete list of all the West Kent's who served in the Great War and were awarded medals (including all those who survived or fell) WW1 Casualties - Where The Fallen Rest CLICK HERE A complete list of all the West Kent's who fell listing where they are buried or officially commemorated On 31 December 1966, the Queen's Own Buffs was merged with the other regiments of the Home Counties Brigade—the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment—to form the Queen's Regiment, which was in turn amalgamated with the Royal Hampshire Regiment, on 9 September 1992, to form the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires). [40], As the 97th Foot the regiment wore sky-blue facings on the standard red coats of the British line infantry. He was transferred to the 11th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment 11th October 1916 where he was employed as a runner. These became the new unit's 1st and 2nd regular battalions. It was then posted to Ireland and spent the remaining years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom before being sent to Egypt in 1899. [13], The 1/4th and 1/5th Battalions were both part of the Kent Brigade, alongside the 4th and 5th (Weald) Buffs (East Kent Regiment), of the Home Counties Division were both sent to British India in late October 1914. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 595 recorded WW1 deaths for the 10th (Service) Battalion, (Kent County), Queen's Own, (Royal West Kent Regiment). [18][19][20] Despite transfer to the RE, the battalion continued to wear its Kentish White Horse cap badge and 20th Londons buttons. The Royal Horse Artillery was armed with light, mobile, horse-drawn guns that provided firepower in support of the cavalry and in practice supplemented the Royal Field Artillery. Officers wore silver braid and other distinctions until gold was introduced in 1830. [28] At the same time, the Luftwaffe was so short of pilots, aircraft and fuel that serious aerial attacks on the United Kingdom could be discounted. [8], By the time the Territorial Force was created in 1908, the suburban area of West Kent had been transferred to the County of London, so the 2nd and 3rd Volunteer battalions became the 20th (County of London) Battalion (Blackheath and Woolwich) in the new London Regiment. No diaries for the campaign in South West Africa in 1914-1915 are included in this series because no British units participated; operations were conducted under the auspices of the South African armed forces. In a number of cases the next of kin were never officially notified about the execution of their … Starting with its forebears, the 50th and 97th Regiment of Foot, the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent (QORWK) Regiment was involved in many of the British Army’s campaigns of the 18th and 19th century as well as the First and Second World Wars. In July 1944, the new 2nd Battalion was assigned to the 184th Infantry Brigade attached to the 61st Division, with which it remained for the rest of the war on home defence duties. In October, the battalion made a heroic stand at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle; being the only unit not to fall back. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, who was responsible for the Cenotaph in London among many other war memorials, the memorial is a cenotaph almost identical to that on Whitehall but reduced to two-thirds scale and lacking adorning flags. Each and every page of each and every diary is indexed by place and date. To browse this image set, select from the options below. An inpromptu music session by soldiers from the Royal West Kent Regiment, part of the The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the trenches before the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, the German invasion of France and the Low Countries in the spring of 1940 during the Second World War. [22] The campaign ended in mid-May 1943, with over 238,000 Axis soldiers surrendering. Mesopotamia, Iraq and North Persia: WO 95/4965-5288 3. UK, World War I War Diaries (Gallipoli and Dardanelles), 1914-1916, UK, World War I Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920, UK, British Army World War I Service Records, 1914-1920, UK, British Army World War I Pension Records 1914-1920. [14] The 3/4th Battalion landed at Le Havre in June 1917 and served as a Pioneer battalion on the Western Front. The Buffs. [11][2], During the First World War, over 60,000 men served with the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Each and every page of each and every diary is indexed by place and date. Three VCs were awarded. The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment (50th & 90th) living history group The Group honours the memory of both of the County's Regiments, The "Queen's Own" Royal West Kent Regiment and The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment). Two Companies were attached to the 30th Brigade in the 6th (Poona) Di… It spent the years up to the outbreak of the First World War on garrison duty. [22], After leaving the 36th Brigade, the 7th Battalion was reassigned to the 136th Brigade, 45th Division until early 1943, when it was reassigned to the 211th Infantry Brigade. Under command of 13th Brigade in 5th Division. The regiment fought against Pashtun tribesmen on the North-West frontier of the Punjab in 1897-98, and in South Africa during the Boer War from 1900-1902. With the division, the 6th Royal West Kents landed in North Africa during Operation Torch and were involved in the Run for Tunis. 725 likes. [22] It then took part in the campaign in Cyprus against EOKA guerrillas around 1958/59. [22] The battalion fought in the Battle of France and the subsequent retreat to Dunkirk soon after, returning to England via the Dunkirk evacuation, but had suffered heavy casualties, including the loss of two rifle companies. He was in the Militia at the outbreak of war and he enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment on the 21 September 1914 at the age of 35. With the final release, this database now contains the entire service records collection. Find your heroes and veterans from the Great War in this collection of medal and award rolls. It spent the next decade in India and returned home to the United Kingdom in 1937. The 2nd Battalion returned to India from Mesopotamia in 1919, and to the United Kingdom in 1921, briefly becoming part of the British Army of the Rhine. [25] Shortly Afterwards, the 6th Battalion, commanded by a future politician for the Conservative Party, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Bryan, landed in Italy on 24 September 1943. Probably a regular battalion of the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) on the Western Front, autumn 1917. [9][18][36][37], From 1951-1954, the sole remaining Regular Battalion contributed to the security forces that successfully contained the Communist guerrilla uprising in Malaya. The battalion was transferred to the Royal Artillery and converted, in February 1942, into the 119th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, and served in Home Forces until September 1942, when it joined the 79th Armoured Division. In 1941, the battalion was redesignated the 30th Battalion and was disbanded in 1943. This is a completely separate organisation to the Royal West Kent Regiment – your great-grandfather was not a member of the MGC at the time he received his wounds. Wednesday 27-09-1916. There follows a brief extract (pp.112-115) from Captain C.T. Moved to Mesopotamia, arriving Basra 6 February 1915 where it came under command of 12th Indian Brigade. In 1935, the 20th Londons was selected for conversion to the searchlight role as 34th (The Queen's Own Royal West Kent) Anti-Aircraft Battalion of the Royal Engineers, later 34th (The Queen's Own Royal West Kent) Searchlight Regiment of the Royal Artillery. www.thequeensown.com The Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1914 - 1918 living history group [41], Colonels-in-Chief of the regiment were:[42]. [22] Less happily, it was involved in the militarily successful, but politically disastrous, occupation of the Suez canal zone in 1956. On September 26th the 8th Battalion received its baptism of fire at the battle of Loos where it played a gallant part in an unsuccessful counter-attack. [34], The 70th (Young Soldiers) Battalion was raised in 1940 from the younger soldiers of the 8th (Home Defence) Battalion and also from volunteers around the age of 18 or 19 who had volunteered for service in the British Army and, therefore, were not yet old enough to be conscripted, with the age being 20 at that time. It was formed by merging the 50th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot and the 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot. Home / The Great War / War Diaries - Facsimile Reprints of Official War Office WO95 Documents 12 DIVISION 37 Infantry Brigade Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 6th Battalion : 1 January 1917 – 31 July 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1861B) Royal West Kent Regiment (d.7th October 1916) Private George William Gee, born in Ampthill, Bedfordshire and enlisted in Bedford. The regiment's recruitment area covered both the towns and rural areas of W… Wednesday 27-09-1916. [16], At the end of the war, the 1st Battalion was transferred back to India, where it fought (along with the Territorial 1/4th Battalion) in the Third Anglo-Afghan War and then helped put down a Mahsud tribal rebellion in the Northwest Frontier in 1920. The division suffered very heavy casualties in the Battle of Dunkirk, mainly due to most of the men being poorly trained and equipped and with little in the way of supporting units, and was disbanded in July 1940 and the 36th Brigade became an independent brigade. The division left the United Kingdom in May 1942 and went on to serve in the North African Campaign, at Alam el Halfa and El Alamein,[25] until the 44th Division was disbanded in early 1943. [17], The London Regiment had ceased to function in 1916, the battalions reverting to the administrative control of their pre-1908 affiliated Regular regiments – the QORWK in the case of the 20th Londons, which reformed in the new Territorial Army as the 20th London Regiment (The Queen's Own). The Corn Exchange became the Drill Hall where the men lined up to enlist in the Royal West Kent regiment in 1914. With the rest of the division, the battalion fought in the Italian Campaign, alongside the 1st (until it was sent to Greece) and 6th battalions for the rest of the war, and landed in Taranto, Italy on 24 September 1943, shortly after the initial invasion. 1919 War diary ... (Service) battalion of the Royal Sussex regiment - called the "2nd South Down's". 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