50th Regiment of Foot

Also known as The Royal West Kent Regiment

Chronology

• 1755 raised as the 52nd Regiment of Foot
• 1757 renumbered 50th Regiment of Foot
• 1782 became the 50th (West Kent) Regiment of Foot
• 1827 became the 50th (Duke of Clarence's) Regiment of Foot
• 1831 became the 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 amalgamated with the 97th Regiment of Foot and became the 1st Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment).
• 1920 became The Royal West Kent Regiment (Queen's Own)
• 1921 became The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
• 1961 amalgamated with The Buffs to form The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment

Kent Cyclist Battalion (Territorial Force)

In India March 1916 to November 1919

• Kent Cyclist Battalion (Territorial Force) html version,original pdf Kentfallen.com
• Kent Cyclist Battalion html version, original pdf Delaunecc.org
• James Taylor Leigh Historical Society. He went to India with the Kent Cyclist Battalion

There was a history published, History of the Kent Cyclist Battalion, Territorial Force, 1908-20 by Cyril Bristow. Paperback, 132 Pages, Published 1986. ISBN 0-9512880-0-8. Available at the British Library

External Links

• 50th Regiment of Foot www.britishempire.co.uk
  
• 50th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
  Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Wikipedia
• Photo of Sutlej Monument in Canterbury Cathedral Flickr.com . This commemorates men who fell under the colours of the 50th (Queens Own ) Regiment 1845-1846. Two Rolls of Honour (Officers etc) and Privates and Drummers are available in this link from Kent Fallen html version, original pdf (BACSA have also transcribed the names listed on the memorial. See English Memorial Inscriptions for details of how to obtain this information)
• 50th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
• The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived website
• The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment British Armed Forces & National Service
• Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum Collection Armymuseums.org
• Alan Osborn’s William Edmund Osborn, Royal West Kent Regiment He was in the 1/5th Battalion Territorial Force which was in India 1914-1917
• Janet & Richard Mason’s The Royal Queens Own West Kent Regiment includes
  • Chapter 4 The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment: 1914 to 1919 by C T Atkinson which mentions the 2nd Battalion in India at the commencement of the War, and the 4th and 5th Battalions (Territorial Force) who arrived in India in 1914
  • Chapter 9 of the same book which mentions the Territorial Battalions in India in 1915
  • Photograph: 2nd Battalion Band, Cherat, North West Frontier, India – 1913
  • Photograph: 4th Battalion, D Company, 1915, India
  • Photograph: No.2. Section, "D" Company, 5th Battalion, India (First World War period)]
  • Photograph: 5th Battalion, Barian Camp, Muree, India (First World War period)
  • Photograph album of Private Henry Knight, who served in "A" Company of the 1/5th Royal West Kent Regiment in India during the Great War
• North West Kent Family History Society