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English: Stained glass window, Warriors' Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral, Kent. ( Buffs Chapel (The Queen’s Own Buffs), the chapel is also the resting place of the old colours of the regiment dating back to 1848 together with the colours of the Canadian Buffs, the last colours of the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment and more recently those of The Queen’s Own Buffs and the 2nd Battalion The Queen’s Regiment. The Buffs can trace their history back to 1572 (during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I) when 300 men, who had volunteered for service in Holland to assist in a struggle against the Spanish, were armed as pikemen and dressed in buff-coloured leather jerkins. They were officially linked to East Kent in 1782 and their first “depot” in Canterbury was in 1817. The regiment has taken part in nearly all of the major conflicts and in 1958 began their last operational tour in Aden.
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), formerly the 3rd Regiment of Foot, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army traditionally raised in the English county of Kent and garrisoned at Canterbury. It had a history dating back to 1572 and was one of the oldest regiments in the British Army, being third in order of precedence (ranked as the 3rd Regiment of the line). The regiment provided distinguished service over a period of almost four hundred years accumulating one hundred and sixteen battle honours. In 1881, under the Childers Reforms, it was known as the Buffs (East Kent Regiment) and later, on 3 June 1935, was renamed the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment). In 1961, it was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment to form the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, which was later merged, on 31 December 1966, with the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) to form the Queen's Regiment. This regiment was, in turn, amalgamated with the Royal Hampshire Regiment, in September 1992, to create the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires). On June 23rd 1962 the Colonel-in-Chief, King IX Frederick of Denmark, presented new colours to the battalion.
Colonels-in-Chief The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)The Colonels-in-Chief were as follows:
ColonelsThe Colonels were as follows:
Coats of arms depicted5 lancet windows, left to right:
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