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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 (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot to form the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in 1881.

"50th Regiment of Foot" redirects here. Not to be confused with Shirley's Regiment.

50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot

1755 to 1881

 Kingdom of Great Britain (1755–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1881)

 British Army

Line Infantry

One battalion (two battalions 1804–1814)

Maidstone Barracks, Kent

"The Dirty Half-Hundred"
"The Blind Half-Hundred"[1]

Seven Years' War
Napoleonic Wars
Gwalior campaign
First Anglo-Sikh War
Crimean War
New Zealand Wars

French Revolutionary Wars 1793-1802: Egypt (With the Sphinx)

Peninsular War 1808-14: , Corunna, Almaraz, Vitoria, Pyrenees, Nive, Orthes, Peninsula

Vimiero

Gwalior Campaign 1843:

Punniar

First Sikh War 1845-46: , Ferozeshah, Aliwal, Sobraon

Moodkee

Crimean War 1854-55: , Inkerman, Sevastapol

Alma

Third Maori War 1863-66:

New Zealand

The regiment's battle honours were as follows:[2]

1755–1756: Gen

James Abercromby

1756–1759: F.M.

Studholme Hodgson

1759–1760: F.M. KB

John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden

1760–1764: Lt-Gen Edward Carr

1764–1774: Gen

Sir William Boothby Bt

1774–1775: Gen

Michael O'Brien Dilkes

1775–1776: Col Hon (died in office in 1776)

George Monson

1777–1798: Gen Sir Bt

Thomas Spencer Wilson

1798–1839: Gen Sir

James Duff

Fyler, Colonel Arthur Evelyn (1895). . London: Chapman and Hall.

The History of the 50th Or (the Queen's Own) Regiment from the Earliest Date to the Year 1881