The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum

The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum

The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum is the regimental museum of the The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. It is located in St Faith's Street in Maidstone, England, and displays four of the six Victoria Crosses won by members of the regiment (those of John Pennington Harman, John Coleman, Charles Lumley, and Thomas James Harris).


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