Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment

Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment
Active	1 March 1961 – 31 December 1966
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
Role	Line infantry
Size	1 Battalion

The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1961 to 1966. Its lineage is continued by the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires).

The regiment was formed on 1 March 1961, as a consequence of defence cuts implemented in the 1950s, by the amalgamation of the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) and the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

In 1961, the regiment was deployed in Kenya, then a British colony. In the following year the regiment returned to the United Kingdom, where the 1st Battalion was presented with its first colours by its Colonel-in-Chief, HM King Frederick IX of Denmark at Folkestone on 23 June. In 1964 the regiment was deployed to British Guiana after violence broke out there, at a time when the South American colony was experiencing turbulent times. The regiment departed South America for the Far East the following year, joining the Hong Kong garrison.

In June 1966, the regiment was deployed on a six-month tour-of-duty in the jungles of Borneo to take part in the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. This had started in 1962 after an Indonesian-inspired rebellion took place in Brunei, which was successfully quelled. The 'Confrontation' officially ended a short while after the regiment arrived; it returned to Hong Kong upon the end of its tour.

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