Category: The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Categories: British Army

The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1961. Its Garrison/HQ was in Maidstone, Kent. The 1881 Army reforms gave Kent two county regiments, one of which was the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). 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, which became the new unit's 1st and 2nd regular battalions. In January 1921, the regiment was renamed the Royal West Kent Regiment (Queen's Own) and, in April of the same year, was again renamed, this time as the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

See:

• Queen's Own Royal West Regiment Museum
• Wikipedia
• The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

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David Archer 15 Sep 1915 Broom Croft, Parkhead, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England - 30 Apr 1943

Alexander Bourne Jun 1919 Milton Regis, Kent, England - 05 Oct 1945

Assheton Cadell 1894 Tiverton, Devon, England - 19 Feb 1916

Henry Dering 09 May 1866 Pluckley, Kent, England, United Kingdom - 14 Jun 1931

William Gladman abt 1880 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - 07 Jul 1901

John Jepp abt 1862 Aldershot, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 30 Mar 1934

William Widdicks 10 Jul 1882 Islington, London, England - abt 1963

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