1859: | 14th Kent RVC │ │ │ │ │ |
1st Kent RVC 9th Kent RVC │ │ │ │ |
3rd Kent RVC 4th Kent RVC 7th Kent RVC 8th Kent RVC 13th Kent RVC │ |
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1860: | 11th Kent RVC 17th Kent RVC 23rd Kent RVC 33rd Kent RVC 35rd Kent RVC 39th Kent RVC │ all part of 2nd Administrative Battalion of Kent Rifle Volunteers │ │ │ │ |
12th Kent RVC 15th Kent RVC 19th Kent RVC 20th Kent RVC 22nd Kent RVC 31st Kent RVC 38th Kent RVC(I) │ all part of 3rd Administrative Battalion of Kent Rifle Volunteers │ 38th Kent RVC(I) disbanded │ |
18th Kent RVC 21st Kent RVC(I) 25th Kent RVC 27th Kent RVC 28th Kent RVC 32nd Kent RVC 34th Kent RVC │ all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Kent Rifle Volunteers │ │ │ |
26th Kent (Royal Arsenal) Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ |
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1861: | 39th Kent RVC to → │ │ |
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21st Kent RVC(I) disbanded │ │ |
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1862: | 11th Kent RVC disbanded │ |
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1864: | │ | │ | │ | 26th | 21st | |||||
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Kent (Royal Arsenal) Rifle Volunteer Corps |
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1868: | │ │ |
20th Kent RVC disbanded │ |
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1869: | │ │ |
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7th Kent RVC disbanded │ |
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1870: | │ │ │ │ |
22nd Kent RVC disbanded │ │ │ |
4th Kent RVC attached to → │ │ │ |
→ 4th Kent RVC 26th Kent (Royal Arsenal) Rifle Volunteer Corps │ |
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1871: | │ │ |
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8th Kent RVC disbanded │ |
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1872: | │ │ |
9th Kent RVC disbanded │ |
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1873: | │ │ |
15th Kent RVC disbanded │ |
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1874: | │ │ │ |
19th Kent RVC disbanded 39th Kent RVC disbanded │ |
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1874: | 1st Kent Rifle Volunteer Corps 31st Kent Rifle Volunteer Corps 45th Kent Rifle Volunteer Corps │ |
12th Kent Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ │ |
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1876: | 45th Kent RVC disbanded │ |
32nd Kent RVC disbanded │ |
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1877: | consolidated as 1st Kent Rifle Volunteer Corps │ |
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Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force | ||||||||||
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1880: | │ │ │ │ |
consolidated as 3rd Kent (West Kent) Rifle Volunteer Corps │ |
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1880: | │ │ │ |
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4th Kent (Royal Arsenal) Rifle Volunteer Corps │ |
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The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms | ||||||||||
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1883: | 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) |
2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) |
3rd Volunteer Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) |
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1900: | │ │ │ │ |
4th Volunteer Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) │ |
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1906: | │ │ │ |
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Creation of the Territorial Force | ||||||||||
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1908: | 4th Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) (TF) |
5th Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) (TF) |
6th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) (TF) |
20th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich) (TF) |
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1910: | │ | │ | The Kent Cyclist Battalion (TF) | │ | ||||||
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1914/ 1918: |
1/4th Battalion, 2/4th Battalion, 3/4th Battalion, 4/4th Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) │ |
1/5th Battalion, 2/5th Battalion, 3/5th Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) │ │ |
1/1st Kent Cyclist Battalion 2/1st Kent Cyclist Battalion 3/1st Kent Cyclist Battalion │ │ │ │ |
1/20th (County of London) Battalion, 2/20th (County of London) Battalion, 3/20th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich) │ │ |
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Creation of the Territorial Army | ||||||||||
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1921: | 4th Battalion, The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment (TA) │ |
5th Battalion, The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment (TA) │ |
disbanded | 20th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich) (TA) │ |
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1922: | │ │ │ |
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20th London Regiment (The Queen’s Own) (TA) │ |
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1935: | │ │ │ │ │ |
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34th (The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers (TA) │ |
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1939: | │ │ │ │ |
6th Battalion, The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment (TA) │ |
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7th Battalion, The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment (TA) │ |
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1940: | │ │ │ │ │ |
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34th (The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery │ |
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1945: | │ │ │ │ |
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633rd Regiment, Royal Artillery (The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent) │ |
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1945: | │ │ |
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Resurrection of the Territorial Army | ||||||||||
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1947: | 4th/5th Battalion, The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment (TA) │ |
569th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (The Queen’s Own) (TA) │ |
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1949: | │ │ │ │ │ |
569th (Mixed) Light Anti-Aircraft/ Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (The Queen’s Own) (TA) │ |
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1955: | │ │ │ │ |
Q (Queen’s Own) Battery, 265th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) |
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1967: | disbanded and formed elements of B Company (Queen’s Own Buffs), 5th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen’s Regiment and B The Queen’s Own Buffs Company, 8th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen’s Regiment (West Kent) |
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