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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.
Badge of the Buffs as shown on the grave of Private P.M. Godden, who died in 1947, at Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong Kong. When the Territorial Army was reformed in 1947 the 4th and 5th Buffs were merged into a single battalion. In 1956 410 (Kent) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery, was converted to the infantry role and became 5th Buffs.
1st VB, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 4th Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 2nd VB, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 5th Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 1st VB, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 4th Bn, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 5th Bn, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) Raised 1908
Although the 2nd Bn East Kent Militia was designated as the 4th Buffs, it was only at cadre strength, and was absorbed by the 1st Bn (now 3rd Buffs) in 1888. The two militia battalions of the Royal West Kents were similarly amalgamated in 1894. [52] [55] [59] [90] The 3rd Bn Buffs was embodied from 9 March to 30 September 1885 during the ...
The TF battalions had all taken the prefix '1' (1/4th Buffs etc) to distinguish them from their 2nd-Line battalions forming in the United Kingdom, and in May 1915, the division was numbered 44th (Home Counties) Division, and the brigade formally became 133rd (Kent) Brigade (though without a commander or staff, and with its battalions scattered).
Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) Military units and formations in Kent; Military units and formations in Canterbury; Military units and formations established in 1881; Military units and formations disestablished in 1888
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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.