SEPTEMBER, 1947 TUE CUEEN'S OWN CAZETTIE 50th 97th (The Queen's Own) (Earl of Ulster's) 1st Battalion (50th) - Shudy Camp, Allied Regiments of the Cambridge Dominions: 2nd Battalion (97th) - Germany, 13.A.0.11. 4th Battalion - - Tonbridge The Carlton Light Infantry, H.Q., R.A. (R.w.K.) Woodstock, N.B. Canada 44 Home Counties Div. (TA.) - - Bromley The Kent Regiment, Depot - - - - Maidstone 20th London Regt. - Blackheath Chatham, Ontario, Canada (The Queen's Own Affiliated) 9th (Eastern & Home The Canterbury Regiment, Counties) Br'. - Palestine, M.E.L.F. Christchurch, New Zealand The Parachute Regt., Affihated) Tel: REGENT 5915. J. B. 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Golden Rule of Health ) Obtainable evelywItere 9/17-1 Printed in Great Britain THE ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE NEWSPAPERS ADVERTISEMENT PAGES, 67168, JERMYN STREET. ST. JAMES'S. S.W.1. TEL. WHITEHALL 2504. EXCLUSIVE TO THE SERVICES RULES 1. The design must be capable of reproduction Design a new badge for NAAFI on paper, in wood or metal, or as a stencil. 2. Each en tran t may submit up to three designs. FIRST PRIZE and win a prize in this Services-only E200 3. Competition. Competitors may prepare designs in pencil, crayon, ink or paint. 4. You are familiar with the present symbol Entries will be judged on the following (it is shown above) in which you will have qualities — 00)0 (a) Shape ; (b) Colour ; (c) the incorpo- spotted the Navy, _Army and Air Force ration of the letters NAAFI (a!) Motif. elements. NAAFI is looking for a new As •a guide, the Shape should be bold, badge one which will be suitable to recognisable at some distance, and likely SECOND PRIZE appear outside Clubs and Canteens, to to be easily remembered. serve as a direction board, and for all Colour ; there is no restriction in the use of similar purposes. The competition is colours i ut entrants will no doubt bear in exclusively for all serving Sailors, Soldiers mind the Navy blue, Army scarlet and £50 Royal Air Force blue as suggesting a and Airmen, and WRNS, ATS, and WAA F. suitable colour basis. Entries may also be submitted by men and women of the three Services who will be on NA A FI the letters NAAFI (without full points) should be incorporated into the THIRD PRIZE demobilisation Release Leave on 31st design and be immediately readable. October, 1947. Motif; this should symbolise the NAAFI's THE CLOSING DATE FOR THE service to the Royal Navy, Army and the Royal Air Force. £25 COMPETITION IS 3Ist October, 1947, 5. Destgns may be of any size, although 12 ins. after which no further entries will be by 12 ins, is suggested as convenient limit. considered. Results will be announced in 6. The Number, Rank, Name and permanent this journal. address of the competitor must be written 21 MERIT PRIZES on the back of each entry submitted. Entries should be sent to the Public 7. The judges' decision will be final and no OF Relations Officer, NAAFI., Ruxley Towers, correspondence in connection with the Claygate, Esher, Surrey. competition will be entertained. El EACH 8. Proof of posting will not be accepted as Entries will be juilged by a panel of proof of delivery. experts and their decisions will govern the 9. NAAFI does not guarantee to adopt as its award of the following prizes:— official badge the winning design, or any design, submitted in this competition. First Prize E100 10. NAAFI reserves the right to reproduce the designs of all prize winners. Unsuccessful designs will be returned to the entrants. Second Prize • E 50 Third Prize ▪ E 25 25 MeEit Prizes of El 25 Total £200 The official canteen organisation for H.M. Forces in war and peace RUXLEY TOWERS, CI. A YGATE• ESHER. SURREY Ninied in Great Britain THE OL -L\'S OWN GAZETTE The Regimentol lourncl of The Queen s Own Koycl West Kent Regiment No. 859, SEPTEMBER, 1947 Vol. LXIV. No. 9 THE QUEEN'S OWN ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT. (50) HOME COUNTIES AREA. "Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt." BATTLE HONOURS BORNE ON THE REGIMENTAL COLOUR: The Sphinx, superscribed "Egypt." "Vimiera," "Corunna," "Almaraz," "Vittoria," "Pyrenees." "Nive." "Orthes," "Peninsula," "Punniar," "Moodkee." "Ferozeshah," "Allwal," "Sobraon," "Alma," "Inkerraan," "Sevastopol," "Lucknow," "New Zealand," "Egypt, 1882," 1884-85," "South Africa, 1900-02," Afghanistan, 1919." BATTLE HONOURS BORNE ON THE KING'S COLOUR: "Mons," "Ypres, 1914, '15, '17, '18,' "Hill 60," "Somme, 1916, '18," "Vimy, 1917," "Italy, 1917, '18," "Gallipoli, 1915." "Gaza." "Defence of Rut Al Ama.sa," "Shargat." THE GREAT WAR BATTLE HONOURS-18 BATTALIONS: "Mons," "Le Gateau," "Retreat from Mons," "Marne. 1914," "Ainsne, 1914," "La Bassee, 1914," "Messeines, 1914, '17," 'Ypres, 1914, '15 '17, 18," "Hill 60," "Gravenstavel." "St. Julien," "Frezenberg," "Loos," "Somme, 1916, '18," "Albert, 1916, '18," "Bazentin," "Delville Wood," "Pozieres," "Guillemont." "Flers-Courcelette," "Morval," "Thiepval," "Le Transloy." ''Ancre Heights," "Ancre, 1916, '18," Arras,"1917, :18." "Vimy, 1917," "Scarpe. 1917," "Oppy," "Pilckem," "Langemarck. 1917," "Menin Road," "Polygon Wood," "Broodseinde," "Passchendaele," "Carnbral, 1917, '18" "St. Quentin," "Rosieres," "Avre," Villers Bretonneux," "Lys," "Hazebrouck." "Kemmel," "Amiens," "Bapaume. 1918," "Hindenburg Line," "Epehy," "Canal du Nord," "St. Quentin Canal," "Courtrai," "Selle," "Sambre," "France and Flanders, 1914-18," "Italy, 1917, '18," "Suvla," "Landing at Suvla." "Scimitar Hill," "Gallipoli, 1915," "Rumani," Egypt, 1915-16," "Gaza," "El Mughar," "Jerusalem," "Jericho," 'Tell 'Asur," "Palestine, 1917, '18" "Defence of Rut Al Amara," "Shargat." "Mesopotamia, 1915-18." tortat By the time this issue of the Queen's Own Gazette R.W.K. MEMORIAL FUND, 1939-45 is published the 1st Battalion will be at home. They were The Objects of the War Memorial Fund are:- expected to disembark at Liverpool from the Clan Lamont 1.-To record on the Regimental Cenotaph in Maid- on the 13th September. stone, the number of all ranks who have fallen in this war. 2.-To insccibe in a book, to be kept in All Saints' The article entitled "HA, Tower of London,- which Church, Maidstone, the names of all who have lost their appears in this issue, is republished in part from an article lives. which appeared in The Royal Army Ordnance Corps 3.-To compile a history of the Regiment during the Gazette, with the kind permission of the Editor and of war 1939-45. Colonel E. H. Carkeet-James, 0.B.E., the author, who 4.-Any balance remaining will be used for the bene- is Resident Governor and Major of the Tower. The article fit of Past and Present members of the Regiment and has been suitably amended to centre round C.S.M. F. their families in such ways as will be practical and useful. Dixon, m.c., whom many of our readers will remember. The total amount so far subscribes is £1,493 I Is. 4d. Donations to the fund should be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, IONIC War Memorial Fund, Invicta Lines, Maidstone, VISITS We are pleased to record visits from: JOURNALS Lieut.-Colonel D. E. B. Talbot, D.S.O., m.c., who is The Editor acknowledges, with thanks, the receipt on leave prior to flying to Burma as G.S.0.1.. South Burma of the following journals: District. Mayinyo, Burma, Sapper. Lieut.-Colonel P. N. Macklin. 0.B.E., who has just been Dragon, appointed to command the 2nd Battalion. R.A.S.C. K.S.L.I. and Herefordshire. Snapper. Globe and Laurel. Subscription rates:- Tank. Officers 9/- per annum, post free, R.A.O.C. Other Ranks 5/- per annum, post free. St. George's Gazette. Single Copies 5d., post free. RASE. 160 THE QUEEN'S OWN GAZETTE. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Promotions and Appointments 5, Elderslie Road, Eitham, S.E.9. EXTRACTS FROM LONDON GAZETTE 16th August, 1947. Dear Sir, PROMOTIONS There were we, the Boys of the Old Brigade, once more Lt.