Great Britain

The Buffs

The Queen’s Own

	Kingdom of England
	from personel in Dutch service of Regiment Engelsen Craven and Regiment Engelsen Killingrew and Regiment Engelsen Sidney │
1665:	The Holland Regiment Robert Sidney’s │
1668:	Walter Vane’s │
1673:	Duke of Buckingham’s │
1678:	2nd Battalion raised │
1679:	2nd Battalion disbanded │
1682:	Earl of Chesterfield’s │
1684:	Duke of Buckingham’s │
1685:	Theophilus Oglethorpe’s │
1688:	Charles Churchill’s │
1702:	Prince George of Denmark’s Regiment of Foot Charles Churchill’s │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
	│
1707:	Duke of Argyll’s │
1711:	John Sewyn’s │
1713:	Earl of Forfar’s │
1716:	Charles Wills’ │
1726:	Earl of Londonderry’s │
1729:	William Tatton’s │
1737:	Thomas Howard’s │
1742:	ranked as 3rd Foot │
1749:	George Howard’s │
1751:	3rd Regiment of Foot (or the Buffs) │
1755:	│ │	52nd Regiment of Foot │
1756:	2nd Battalion raised │	│ │
1757:	│ │	50th Regiment of Foot │
1758:	2nd Battalion → 61st Regiment of Foot │	│ │
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1782:	3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot (The Buffs) │	50th (West Kent) Regiment of Foot │ │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1803:	2nd Battalion raised │	│ │
1804:	│ │	2nd Battalion raised │
1814:	│ │	2nd Battalion disbanded │
1815:	2nd Battalion disbanded │	│ │
1824:	│ │ │	│ │ │	97th (Earl of Ulster’s) Regiment of Foot │
1831:	│ │ │	50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment of Foot │	│ │ │
1845:	│ │	│ │	Reserve Battalion raised │
1851:	│ │	│ │	Reserve Battalion disbanded │
1857:	2nd Battalion raised │	│ │	│ │
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	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	1st Battalion,    2nd Battalion,	1st Battalion,	2nd Battalion,
	The Kentish Regiment (The Buffs) │	The Royal West Kent Regiment (Queen’s Own) │
	The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) see also the Militia Battalions and the Volunteer Battalions	The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) see also the Militia Battalions and the Volunteer Battalions
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1911:	│	│
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1920:	│ │ │	The Royal West Kent Regiment (Queen’s Own) │
1921:	│ │	The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment │
1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1935:	The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) │	│ │ │
1948:	│ │	2nd Battalion disbanded │
1948:	part of The Home Counties Brigade │	part of The Home Counties Brigade │
1949:	2nd Battalion disbanded │	│ │
1961:	1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment
	│
1966:	2nd Battalion (Queen’s Own Buffs), The Queen’s Regiment │
1968:	2nd Battalion, The Queen’s Regiment
	part of The Queen’s Division │
	│
1992:	merged into The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (Queen’s and Royal Hampshires)

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