Portal:South East England/On This Day/June 12
- 1819: Charles Kingsley, novelist and rector of Eversley in Hampshire, was born.
- 1922 In Windsor Castle, King George V received the colours of the six Irish regiments that were to be disbanded - the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.