A RE-UNION of members of the former Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and The Buffs (the Royal East Kent Regiment), amalgamated in 1961 to become the Royal Kent Regiment, is being held in Maidstone on Sunday.

The annual event starts at 10.15am in Brenchley Gardens with a wreath-laying ceremony at the regimental war memorial, which honours those who lost their lives in the First World War.

The wreath-laying will be followed by a parade through Maidstone town centre, with the Mayor of Maidstone, Cllr Morel D'Souza, taking the salute outside the Town Hall.

The parade ends at All Saints' Church where a remembrance service will be held at 11.30am. A reception at the Corn Exchange, Market Buildings, will be held afterwards.

The reunion has been planned to fall as close as possible to the West Kent Regiment's regimental day of September 8, when it received its first Victoria Cross.