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50th Regiment of Foot

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*: [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-11-Autumn-2005.pdf Issue 11], [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-12-Spring-2006.pdf 12], [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-13-Autumn-2006.pdf 13], [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-14-Spring-2007.pdf 14]
*:Issues 11 and 14. He joined the Army as a Boy Musician in 1932 aged 14 and went as part of a a draft to India leaving 4th February 1933 on the troopship HMT Dorsetshire, returning to England on the Dilwara arriving Southampton on 13th January 1938.
*:Issues 12 and 13. His time in India with the 1st Batallion Battalion in Gough Barracks in the cantonment of [[Trimulgherry]], and time spent in [[Ootacamund|Wellington ]] in the Nilgiri Hills. Issue 13 includes a move of the regiment to [[Karachi]]. Issue 14 includes a statement that the 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment had served continuously in India for eighteen years.
*Alan Osborn’s [http://ww1.osborn.ws/w-osborn-royal-west-kent-regiment 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 [http://janetandrichardsgenealogy.co.uk/queens_own_royal_west_kent_regiment.html The Royal Queens Own West Kent Regiment] includes
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