This is an early British regimental drum was made by a famous maker, John Grey of London, whose military drums date back to the 1830's. The drum has a modern 20th century label on it listing all the battles including WWII, but the drum is much earlier probably post 1940 - 1950.
It has a modern label with the Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment details below.
A very historic British regiment involved with a nice display of lots of historic battles and history. The Regiment was merged in 1961 to form The Queen's Own Buffs.
Peninsular - Coruna / Vittoria / Nieve
Sevastapol
Nile 1884-1885
Cassino
Gallipolli
El Alamein
Somme
Malta
Inkerman
Lucknow
All the historic battles except Waterloo.
Dimensions 37cm Wide x 39 High
History
The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent (QORWK) Regiment was involved in many of the British Army’s campaigns of the 18th and 19th century as well as the First and Second World Wars. During these campaigns, the Regiment gained a good reputation as hardworking and dependable soldiers.
The 1881 Army reforms gave Kent two county regiments, one of which was The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). It was formed by merging the 50th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot and the 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot. These became the new unit's 1st and 2nd regular battalions.
In the next three decades, both battalions undertook garrison duties across the British Empire, including Britain, South Africa, Ireland, India, Malta, Singapore and Hong Kong.
1st Battalion fought at Kassassin and Tel-el-Kebir in Egypt in 1882, and at Ginnis in the Sudan in 1884. 2nd Battalion served in South Africa during the Boer War (1899-1902).
Post-war
In 1945, 2nd Battalion joined the occupying forces in West Germany. It returned to Britain in 1947 and merged with 1st Battalion the following year.
The regiment went on to serve during the Malayan Emergency (1948-60) from 1951 to 1954, the Suez Crisis of 1956, and against guerrillas on Cyprus from 1957 to 1958.
Legacy
It returned to Britain in 1959. Two years later, it amalgamated with The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) to form The Queen's Own Buffs, Royal Kent Regiment.