50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot
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The 50th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1755. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 97th Regiment of Foot to form the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in 1881.
Cap Badge of the 50th Regiment of Foot
Colonel James Abercrombie, founder of the regiment
Soldier of 50th regiment, c.1755
The retreat to Corunna in January 1809
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
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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 (Royal West Kent Regiment), by the amalgamation of the 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot and the 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot. In January 1921, the regiment was renamed the Royal West Kent Regiment (Queen's Own) and, in April of the same year, was again renamed, this time as the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
Officer's helmet Plate of the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 1902–1914.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky who served in Platoon 16 of the 20th Battalion of the London Regiment Between 1916 and 1917
Headstone of a private, 4 November 1917.
Troops of the 10th (Service) Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment manning a Lewis machine gun in a front line trench running through a cemetery in the Ypres Salient, Belgium, 29 April 1918.