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  2. List of battalions of the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)

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    The Buffs fielded 15 battalions and lost over 6,000 officers and other ranks during the course of the war. [6] The regiment's territorial components formed duplicate second and third line battalions. As an example, the three-line battalions of the 4th Buffs were numbered as the 1/4th, 2/4th, and 3/4th respectively.

  3. Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) - Wikipedia

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    Among the small garrison of 1879 Rorke's Drift (Zulu Land) was Sgt Frederick Milne (2260) 2nd Battalion, The Buffs. Said to have found and retrieved the watercart during the night. He survived the battle and soon left the service. [74] Colonel Richard S. Hawks Moody CB. Moody was a distinguished officer, and later a historian, of the Regiment.

  4. 141 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps - Wikipedia

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    The battalion had been assigned to the 209th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home), serving alongside the 8th, 9th and 10th battalions of the Buffs. [1] As with all infantry battalions transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps, they would have continued to wear their Buffs cap badges on the black beret of the RAC. [2]

  5. 89th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery - Wikipedia

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    The 89th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, (89th LAA Rgt) was an air defence unit of the British Army during World War II.Initially raised as an infantry battalion of the Buffs in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1941.

  6. East Kent Militia - Wikipedia

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    The East Kent Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment) was an auxiliary [a] regiment raised in Kent in South East England.From its formal creation in 1760 the regiment served in home and colonial defence in all of Britain's major wars until 1918, seeing active service in the Second Boer War and supplying thousands of reinforcements to the Buffs during World War I.

  7. Category:Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) - Wikipedia

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    8th Battalion, Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (1940–42) 9th (Reserve) Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 10th (Royal East Kent and West Kent Yeomanry) Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 11th Battalion, Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) 29th Training Reserve Battalion; 50th (Holding) Battalion, Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) 71st ...

  8. 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot - Wikipedia

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    The regiment was raised by Francis Humberston MacKenzie, Chief of the Clan Mackenzie and later Lord Seaforth, as the 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (or The Ross-shire Buffs) on 8 March 1793. [5] First assembled at Fort George in July 1793, [ 6 ] the regiment moved to the Channel Islands in August 1793, [ 7 ] and embarked for Holland in ...

  9. Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment - Wikipedia

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    The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1961 to 1966. Its lineage is continued by the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) .