1572 Thomas Morgan's Company
formed for service in Holland
1605 expanded to brigade of four regiments
1665 The British brigade, numbering three English and four Scottish regiments were required to take the oath of allegiance to the States-General or be cashiered. The English refused and disbanded in Holland. The Scots continued in Dutch service until 1794 when they were placed on the British establishment as The Scotch Brigade.
1665.05.31 The Holland Regiment
formed in England from repatriated veterans of the three disbanded English regiments in Dutch service; also known until 1751 by the names of colonels
1689 Prince George of Denmark's Regiment
1751.07.01 3rd Regiment of Foot, or The Buffs
1782.08.31 3rd (the East Kent) Regiment of Foot
1881.07.01 The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
reorganised as the county regiment of East Kent, encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below]
1935.06.03 The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
1961.03.01 amalgamated with The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, to form The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment

Memorials are in Canterbury Cathedral and the Tower of London.

Battle Honours WW1

The Great War (16 battalions)1: Aisne 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1915 '17, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Avre, Amiens, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Struma, Doiran 1918, Macedonia 1915-18, Gaza, Jerusalem, Tell 'Asur, Palestine 1917-18, Aden, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1915-18

Battle Honours WW2

The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, St. Omer-La Bassée, Withdrawal to Seine, North-West Europe 1940, Sidi Suleiman, Alem Hamza, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, El Agheila, Advance on Tripoli, Tebaga Gap, El Hamma, Akarit, Djebel Azzag 1943, Robaa Valley, Djebel Bech Chekaoui, Heidous, Medjez Plain, Longstop Hill 1943, North Africa 1941-43, Centuripe, Monte Rivoglia, Sicily 1943, Termoli, Trigno, Sangro, Anzio, Cassino I, Liri Valley, Aquino, Rome, Trasimene Line, Coriano, Monte Spaduro, Senio, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45, Leros, Middle East 1943, Malta 1940-42, Shweli, Myitson, Burma 1945

The Buffs Regimental Museum, Canterbury (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment

1st Battalion

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
1881 England: Dover
1882 Ireland: Buttevant
1885 Malta
1887 Singapore
1888 India: Rhaniket
<1892> Calcutta
<1894> Jullunder
1895.03 Chitral expedition
1895.08 Jullunder?
<1897> Peshawar
1897.07 Malakand expedition
<1899> Kemptee
1901 Poona
1903 Aden
1904 England: Dover
1906 Aldershot/Dover?
1910 Ireland: Dublin
<1914> Fermoy 16 Bde
1914.09 France and Flanders 6 Div
1919 Germany Army of Occupation
1920 Ireland: Fermoy
1922.01 UK
1922.04 Turkey Army of Occupation
1923.09 Gibraltar
1924 Egypt
1927.03 India: Bareilly
1930.10 Burma: Rangoon
1932 Maymyo
1935.06.03 1st Battalion, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
1935.02 India: Lucknow
1938.10 Palestine
1939 Egypt
1939.10 Middle East 6 Ind Div
1941.06 Middle East Corps Troops, 22 Gds Bde
1942.03 Middle East 8 Armd Bde
1943.07 Middle East 18 Inf Bde
1944.02 Italy
1944.10 Italy
1945.03 Italy 24 Gds Bde
1945.05 Italy
1946 Greece
1947.08 reduced to nil strength
1949.09.23 re-formed by renumbering 2nd Battalion in Hong Kong (technically "amalgamated")
1947.01 Hong Kong
1950.01 Sudan
1950.12 England: Dover 39 Bde
1951.11 Egypt
1953.04 Kenya
1954.12 UK
1955 Germany: Ronsdorf 4 Bde
1958.03 Aden
1959 Germany BAOR
1960.11 UK 5 Bde
1961.03.01 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, to form 1st Bn, The Queen's Own Buffs, Royal Kent Regiment

2nd Battalion