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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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment
The Lewisham War Memorials website says that the inscription on the main memo...
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Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
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Editor of The Times 1967-81. Also High Sheriff of Somerset in the late 1970s. Chairman of the Arts Council in the 1980s. Vice-Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors. In 1988 he became Baron Rees-Mo...
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
From Exploring East London: "During World War II the college was used by the armed forces for providing technical training for personnel; first by the RAF in 1940, then by the army in 1941 and then...
Ashurst Lodge (number 12) was demolished in 1965 to make way for Highbury Grove School.
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