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3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot (or The Buffs)

1863

 

3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot (or The Buffs)

1st Batt. The Tower

2nd Batt. Gibraltar

 

Colonel

Hon. Charles Grey

Lieut. Colonels

John Neptune Sargent

Lt. Col. Sargent served with the 95th Regt. the Eastern campaign of 1854-55 including the battles of Alma (wounded) and Inkerman, sortie of 26th Oct. siege and fall of Sebastopol wounded (Medal and Clasps, Brevet of Major, Knight of the Legion of Honor, 5th Class of the Medjidie, and Turkish Medal). Served the campaign of 1860 in North of China (CB, Medal with Clasp)

John Hardman Burke

Lt. Col. Burke served with the 88th Regiment in the Eastern campaign of 1854 and up to 12th March 1855, including the battles of Alma and Inkerman, and siege of Sebastopol (Medal and Clasps, 5th Class of the Medjidie, and Turkish Medal)

Majors

Fred. William Gore

William Henry Cairnes

Thomas George Gardiner

Robert Sandford Warburton

Captains

Thomas Kains

Penrose John Dunbar

VC Mark Walker

E.K. Vaughan Arbuckle

William Ross Turner

Arthur Wellesley Joyce

John Salmon Gordon

Clifford Parsons

John Otway Wemyss

Chas. Moore B. Siree

Chas. Knight Perason

Henry Robert Cowell

William Stewart

Goerge Noble Roe

Franics Eteson

Henry George E. Somerset

Talbot Ashley Cox

Henry Thomas Anley

Goerge Grant Suttie

Richard William Woods

Arthur Worthington

Francis Morley

Henry Parnell

Alfred Benwell Letts

Lieutenants

Leyson Edwin Lewis

Charles Verey

Alfred Goerge Huyshe

Walter Aug. Daubeny

William Ker

James H. LeCocq, Adj

Charles Deyman Baillie

Albert Peachey

John Cotter, Adj

Hon. Jas. Wilfrid Hewit

Robert Burdett Morony

Felix Thomas Jones

Shapland Graves

Theophilus Jones

Frederick Taylor Hobson

William Pitt Butts

William Henry Irvine

John Law

Henry Thomas Halahan

Charles James Hamilton

James Edward Forster

William Frederick Kerr

John Augustus Vivian

Joseph James B. Haydock

John Raimond Trevilian

Christian Frederick Gardner

Archibald William Peyton

John Francis Whitworth

Charles Bruce Henry Somerset

Edm. Peel Ethelston

Ensigns

Andrew Jackson

John Elias Darnford

Thomas G. Goff Caulfield

E. Girdlestone Graham

Henry Drinkrow Harrison

Arhtur William Hill Gelston

Thomas William Carpenter

Edward Charlton Dickson

Herbert Stoddart Nield

Edward Openshaw

William Synge Cooper

George Agar Alexander

Robert Georges Fulton

Francis William Kane

George Upperton

Charles Edward Reeves

George William Pochin

Montagu Fawkes

David Glynne Griffith

Robert Norman Franks

Paymasters

Henry Magill

James Wray

Adjutants

Lieut. John Coter

Lieut. James H. Le Cocq

Instructors of Musketry

Lieut. Shapland Graves

Lieut. Theophilus Jones

Quarter Masters

George Pittendrigh

George Russell Holt White

Surgeons

Joseph Burke

Alfred Crocker

Assistant Surgeons

Thomas Teevan

James Wilson

1st Battalion returned from China April 9th, 1861 - Depot. Limerick

2nd Battalion embarked for Malta, 16 April 1858. Depot. Limerick

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Motto "Veteri Frondescit Honore"....."With its Ancient Honour it is Evergreen"

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