THE
QUEEN’S OWN BUFFS
(The Royal Kent Regiment)
(The Royal Kent Regiment)
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THE
QUEEN’S OWN BUFFS (The Royal Kent Regiment) |
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Wednesday March 1st 1961 the amalgamation of the The Buffs and The Queen’s
Own Royal West Kent Regiment was consummated with a ceremonial parade at
Ross Barracks. Two guards representing The Buffs with their Colours and
two guards representing the Queen’s Own with their Colours marched
on parade.
The flags of The Buffs and the Queen’s Own were flying from separate poles. As they were lowered to the Auld Lang Syne the parade stood at the present. A trumpet fanfare was sounded and the flag of the new regiment, The Queen’s Own Buffs, with its white horse on a background of buff and blue, was broken from the top of a third, central flagpole. The new Regiment had been born. The battalion served in Kenya for six moths returning to Shorncliffe in January 1962 when Lt. Colonel Dendy handed over the battalion to Lt. Colonel H. B. H. Waring. On June 23rd
1962 the Colonel-in-Chief, King Frederick of Denmark, presented new colours
to the battalion. |
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The Colours of the new battalion The Queen’s Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment |
With hardly a dry eye and with a lump in many a throat, the old colours of two outstanding regiments were marched off for the very last time. On October 5th 1963 the colours of both regiments were handed over for safe-keeping in Canterbury Cathedral. During its short life, 5 years and 10 months, the Queen’s Own Buffs undertook a nine months’ tour in British Guiana, six months active service in the Borneo jungles and during a very successful tour in Hong Kong where they gained a great deal of experience of Internal Security under the command of Lt. Colonel E. W. MacDonald. On their return to the colony from Borneo the Queen’s Own Buffs became the 2nd Battalion The Queen’s Regiment. |
Links to The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment
The pages of this site cover the period of the Great War and the involvement of The Royal Queens Own West Kent Regiment http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shebra/queens_own_royal_west_kent_regiment.htm
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