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

Regimental Journal

The “Queen's Own” Gazette
Publication Details: Kinsale, Edinburgh Castle, etc., 1876-1961
The British Library appears to hold most editions, but some are missing. UIN: BLL01001097053
Some editions are available online, refer below.

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
• 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
• The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment (PWRR). The Regimental Association Includes some online editions of the regimental magazines.
• 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
• Voyage to India: Memoirs of the 1st/3rd Kent Battery 1914 Frank William Critchley was 22 years old and a sergeant in the 1st/3rd Kent Battery, Royal Artillery,. He travelled to India on the troopship Grantully Castle which departed Southampton 29 Oct 1914 and arrived Bombay 2 December 1914. One board were: Artillery 450. East Surreys 400. 4th Queens 800. voyagetoindia.co.uk
• North West Kent Family History Society

Historical books online

• A Short History of The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 1920. access.bl.uk British Library
• A broken range of editions of The “Queen's Own” Gazette Is available on The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment (PWRR). The Regimental Association website. Currently (2017/5) editions for the WW1 period, and from 1946 are available.