50th (Queen's Own) Regiment Of Foot
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Type of business | Line Infantry |
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Founded | 1755 |
Nickname(s) | "The Dirty Half-Hundred" |
Branch | British Army |
Engagements | Crimean War |
Seven Years' War | |
Napoleonic Wars | |
New Zealand Wars | |
First Anglo-Sikh War | |
Gwalior Campaign | |
Headquarters | Invicta Park Barracks |
Kent | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1349830 |
About 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment Of Foot
The 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1755. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 97th Regiment of Foot to form the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in 1881.