The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
Bound in recent black half morocco, gilt, old boards stained and worn. Fine inside.
£200.00
Details
THE WEST KENT'S NEWSPAPER the Queens own gazette
Publisher
[The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment] The Barracks, Maidstone,
Date
1923
Synopsis
A monthly record of regimental doings of the queen's own royal west kent regiment, nos 572-583, january-december 1923.
Item Description
4to. 8.5 x 11 inches. pp. 4557-4790 [233 pp]. Illustrated with one plate and black and white photographs, cartoons, etc. in text and by regimental badges at head of titles.
Notes
A bound set of The Queen's Own Gazette for 1923 which provides a fascinating record of an era when Kent had two county regiments. It has news of the regiment's five battalions, and their respective companies, sergeants and corporals messes, etc. (the 1st Battalion being then based at Poona). There are lists of officers, reports of sporting activities and accounts of visits made to the recent battlefields and their war cemeteries in France and Flanders. Occasional articles deal with the question of amputations ('The end of the wooden leg') and provide interesting statistics (i.e. the numbers of war medals issued). There is an obituary, illustrated by a plate, for the regiment's former colonel, Major-General Sir Edmund Leach (1836-1922), who first saw service in the Crimea. The Regiment was formed in 1881 from a union of two units, from one of which, the 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot, it took part of its title. In 1961 it amalgamated with The Buffs (The Royal East Kent Regiment) to form The Queen's Own Buffs, the Royal Kent Regiment. Copies of this newspaper (published with its predecessors, 1876-1961) outside the British Library set, are now very scarce. Because it includes so many names it is a valuable source for those researching the history of the Regiment.
[Stock No. 20285]
Subjects
20th Century • Kent • Military • Periodicals • Regiment