QUEENS OWN BUFFS
 

Could anyone please tell me. Did The Queens Own Buffs 1961 - 1966 have their own cap badge or did they wear just the Home Counties Brigade Badge? Also could you please tell me if they had their own shoulder titles as I can't find either anywhere, Thanks

QUEENS OWN BUFFS
 

They certainly had a shoulder title QUEENS OWN/BUFFS in brass and I think a white metal collar badge.

Queen's Own Buffs
 

And also a very smart blue and buff cloth shoulder title QUEEN'S OWN BUFFS

Queen's Own Buffs
 

Here are the cloth and metal shoulder titles:

Tim

Queen's Own Buffs
 

The anodised aluminium collar badges. The Home Counties Brigade cap badge was worn.

Tim

White metal collars
 

I have a left hand collar in white metal which is unusual as I thought A/A was the norm. Any comments?

Lots of badges continued to be made in metal after the introduction of anodised aluminium, and still do.

Marc

I have a silvered pair of officers collars and had a bid on a pouch badge (possibly band) which had the hop pony above the title Queens Own Buffs.

The Regulars wore the Home Counties badge, but I believe the Territorials wore a Queen's Own Buffs cap badge in rather the same way as the Territorials of the Queen's Royal Surrey's wore their own badge.

Thankyou all for that.

Queens Own Buffs cap badge
 

Hi Doddsy, The Queens Own Buffs did have a cap badge, It was the same as The Royal West Kents, cap badge except the wording on the scoll was change to read Queens Own Buffs, I know this is correct as i still have mine complete with the collar dogs,They also had the Home Counties badge for a while untill the other was made and i still have that one as well. The Home Counties badge is very easy to find but the Queens Own Buffs cap badge is very rare, as for the shoulder badge that is also a yes again hard to find, I did see a pair for sale in a military shop in Canterbury behind Kings Collage, Happy Days.:)

Hi Doddsy, was The Queens own Buffs badge in anodised then ? (if so who is the maker) Can you post a picture?

Thanks

Bess

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There two large spaces under the cloth titles for two large Corps of drums pouch badges which are as per the cap badge a large white horse on a scroll QUEENS OWN BUFFS a tradition carried from the Royal West Kent regiment and carried on further by the Queens regiment from 1966

In October / November 1972 at Sutton Coldfield I was interviewed by a major who to my surprise was wearing a silver coloured badge that I took to be RWK, it may have been Queen's Own Buffs.

The Royal West Kent cap badge was worn unto 1961 by the regulars (my old mate Terry was in the last intake as RWK, when he finished his training he was in the QOBs) The TA was never re badged and retained the Old badge until 1968, The ACF wore it until 1972
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