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 to form 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

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. (BACSA have 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 Regiments.org, an archived site
• 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 two photos in India (scroll down) and a link to 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