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The Rifle Volunteers

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The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers
Phone:
+44 1622 758891

Hours:
Sunday12pm - 6pm
Monday6pm - 11pm
Tuesday12pm - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm
Wednesday12pm - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm
Thursday12pm - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm
Friday12pm - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm
Saturday12pm - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm


The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army based in the county of Kent in existence from 1881 to 1961. The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, originally as the Queen's Own , by the amalgamation of the 50th Regiment of Foot and the 97th Regiment of Foot. In January 1921, the regiment was renamed the Royal West Kent Regiment and, in April of the same year, was again renamed, this time as the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. After distinguished service in the Second Boer War, along with both World War I and World War II, on 1 March 1961, the regiment was amalgamated with the Buffs to form the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, which was destined to be short-lived. On 31 December 1966, the Queen's Own Buffs was merged with the other regiments of the Home Counties Brigade—the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment—to form the Queen's Regiment, which was in turn amalgamated with the Royal Hampshire Regiment, on 9 September 1992, to form the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment . Throughout its existence, the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was popularly and operationally known as the Royal West Kents.
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