Veteri frondescit honore It flourishes in ancient honour
Regimental Anniversaries
16th January Corunna Day
16th May Albuhera Day
Battle Honours Emblazoned
BLENHEIM
RAMILLIES
OUDERNARDE
MALPLAQUET
DETTINGEN
GUADELOUPE 1759
BELLEISLE
DOURO
TALAVERA
ALBUHERA
VITTORIA
PYRENEES
NIVELLE
NIVE
ORTHES
TOULOUSE
PENINSULA
PUNNIAR
SEVASTOPOL
TAKU FORTS
SOUTH AFRICA 1879
CHITRAL
RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY
PAARDEBURG
SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902 World War 1
AISNE 1914
YPRES 1915, 1917
LOOS
SOMME 1916, 1918
ARRAS 1917
AMIENS
HINDENBERG LINE
STRUMA
BAGHDAD
JERUSALEM Second World War
NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1940
ALEM HANZA
EL ALAMEIN
ROBAA VALLEY
TRIGNO
ANZIO
SICILY 1943
ARGENTA GAP
LEROS
SHWELI
Battle Honours Not Emblazoned
World War 1
ARMENTIERES 1914
GRAVENSTAFEL
ST JULIEN
FREZENBERG
BELLEWAARDE
HOOGE 1915
ALBERT 1916, 1918
BAZENTIN
DELVILLE WOOD
POZIERES
FLERS-COURCELETTE
MORVAL
THIEPVAL
LA TRANSLOY
ANCRE HEIGHTS
ANCRE 1916, 1917
SCARPE 1917
MESSINES 1917
PILCKEM
PASSCHENDALE
CAMBRAI 1917, 1918
ST QUENTIN
AVRE
BAPAUME 1918
EPEHY
ST QUENTIN CANAL
SELLE
SAMBRE
FRANCE AND FLANDERS 1914-18
DOIRAN 1918
MACEDONIA 1915-18
GAZA
TELL'ASUR
PALESTINE 1917-18
ADEN
TIGRIS 1916
KUT AL AMARA 1917
MESOPOTAMIA 1915-18 Second World War
DEFENCE OF ESCAUT
ST OMER-LA BASSEE
WITHDRAWAL TO SEINE
SIDI SULEIMAN
ALAM EL HALFA
EL AGHEILA
ADVANCE ON TRIPOLI
TEBAGA GAP
EL HAMMA
AKARIT
DJEBEL AZZAG 1943
DJEBEL BECH
CHEKAOUI
HEIDOWS
MEDJEZ PLAIN
LONGSTOP HILL 1943
NORTH AFRICA 1941-3
CENTURIPE
MONTE RIVOGLIA
TERMOLI
SANGRO
CASSINO I
LIRI VALLEY
AQUINO
ROME
TRASIMENE LINE
CORIANO
MONTE SPADURO
SENIO
ITALY 1943-5
MIDDLE EAST 1943
MALTA 1940-2
MYITSON
BURMA 1943-5
Predecessor Unit
3rd Foot (raised 1751)
Successor Units
1935 The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
1961 The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment
(Amalgamation of The Buffs and the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment)
1966 The Queen's Regiment
(Amalgamation of The Queen's Own Buffs with the Surreys, Sussex and Middlesex regiment)
1992 The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)
Museum
The Royal Museum
High Street
Canterbury
Kent
tel: 01227 452747
open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm
Memorial
The Warrior's Chapel
Cathedral Church of Christ
Canterbury
Kent
'Historical Records of the Buffs, East Kent Regiment'
vol 1 (1572-1704) by H R Knight (Gale & Polden 1905)
vol 2 by C R B Knight (Medici Society 1951)
vol 3 (1914-19) by R S Moody (Medici Society 1922)
vol4 (1919-48) by C R B Knight (Medici Society 1951)
