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n. (plural of buff English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: buff)
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The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), formerly the 3rd Regiment of Foot, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army traditionally raised in the English county of Kent and garrisoned at Canterbury. It had a history dating back to 1572 and was one of the oldest regiments in the British Army, being third in order of precedence (ranked as the 3rd Regiment of the line). The regiment provided distinguished service over a period of almost four hundred years accumulating one hundred and sixteen battle honours. In 1881 under the Childers Reforms it was known as the Buffs (East Kent Regiment) and later, on 3 June 1935, was renamed the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
In 1961 it was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment to form the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment which was later merged, on 31 December 1966, with the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) to form the Queen's Regiment which was again amalgamated with the Royal Hampshire Regiment, in September 1992, to create the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires).
Buffs may refer to:
- Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), a British army unit
- Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, a fraternal organization
- Buffs, a company in The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
- Colorado Buffaloes, the athletic teams of the University of Colorado Boulder
The Buffs was an association football team formed of players from the Royal East Kent Regiment. It played in Hong Kong First Division League in the past. The team is now dissolved.
The Buffs is the first champion of Hong Kong First Division League.
Usage examples of "buffs".
The Buffs assumed the duty of rear-guard, and were delighted to have a brisk little skirmish--fortunately unattended with loss of life--with the tribesmen, who soon reoccupied the burning village.
BrigadierGeneral Jefferys, in anticipation of this movement, sent the Buffs up to hold the Kotal, and camped at the foot with the rest of his force.
The Buffs came in at sunset, having marched from the top of the Rambat Pass.
The centre column, under Colonel Goldney, consisting of six companies Buffs, six companies 35th Sikhs, a half-company sappers, four guns of No.
At the sound of the musketry the Buffs were recalled from the village of Badelai and also marched to support the 35th Sikhs.
Again the enemy pressed with vigour, but this time there were ten companies on the spur instead of two, and the Buffs, who became rearguard, held everything at a distance with their Lee-Metford rifles.
Individual tribesmen ran up, shouting insults, to within fifty yards of the Buffs and discharged their rifles.
The Buffs had been marching and fighting continuously for thirteen hours.
As the Buffs reached the camp the rain which had hitherto held off came down.
The Buffs who were dead beat, the Sikhs who had suffered most severe losses, and the Guides who had been marching and fighting all day, were not to be thought of.
A party of twelve men of the Buffs now arrived, and the circumstances which led them to the guns are worth recording.
Lieutenants Watson and Colvin, with their sappers and the twelve men of the Buffs, forced their way into the village, and tried to expel the enemy with the bayonet.
The advance continued: the Guides on the left, the 38th Dogras in the centre, the Buffs on the right, and the 35th Sikhs in reserve.
Those on the right succeeded, and the Buffs were soon sharply engaged.
On the right, the Buffs were harassed by being commanded by another spur.