The battalion was formed in Lewisham and fought in France and Italy. It was disbanded at the end of the war. The Royal West Kent Regiment had been in existence since 1881. In 1961 it was amalgamated with the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), to form the Queen's Own Buffs, the Royal Kent Regiment.
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11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment
The Lewisham War Memorials website says that the inscription on the main memo...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Naval Officer. In the North Atlantic on the 17th February 1917, he was commanding HMS Farnborough (Q.5). (Q ships were decoy vessels designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks). He not...
Major Forrest Melvin Cox was born on 20 February 1916 in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois, USA, the youngest of the three children of Joseph Ivan Cox (1891-1969) and Alta Maria Cox née Barrow (1...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Admiral and hydrographer (map making for sailors). Developed the Beaufort Scale (for winds) in 1805. Born Co. Meath, Ireland. He kept journals, written in code, and these reveal that, as a widower ...
