On this day 4th April
1815 - 1st Bn. 52nd - halted in Brussels on the way to Grammont,(Waterloo campaign)
1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – VARENNES - SARTON.
2.30PM. The Regiment as part of 5th Infantry Brigade marched via ACHEUX – LOUVENCOURT – MARIEUX to billets in SARTON (previously occupied Sept-Oct 1916).
Billets fairly comfortable and everyone would like to have stayed there.
Lt Col C S Baines DSO, 52nd Light Infantry, commanding 2/7th Bn Kings (Liverpool) Regiment visited the Regiment.
The 93rd Reinforcement, Serjeant Beard, 2 Corporals and 95 Lance Corporals and Privates joined the Regiment.
Promotion of 2/Lt John Brown Murray to be Lieutenant.
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – S URBANO VIGO MONTE DI SOVIZZO.
Coys Resting.
Working Party of 2 Officers & 100 OR A Coy sent to THIENE for work at railhead, there till further orders.
CO attended Divisional Conference at S URBANO.
Ration Strength: 40 Officers 793 OR. Casualties: NIL
1918 –5th (S) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - engaged Battle of the Avre. (France)
Driven from position by enemy and lost heavily.
Heavy bombardment opens at 5.25 a.m.
About 8 a.m. Germans attack, employing at least four waves of troops.
Both flanks go;
Battalion forced to evacuate position.
Line taken up south of Vaire.
Casualties:
Killed 2nd Lieut. E. N. N. Sellman,
Wounded; Lieut. C. R. Charsley, 2nd Lieuts. Cliff, Borman, Horncastle, S. Clark, R. N. Addington, Wounded and Missing: Major A. M. Labouchere (died while a prisoner, on the 20th April.—ed.)
Missing: Lieut. L. V. D. Owen,
Other ranks killed, wounded, and missing, about 160.
1918 - 2/4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - To LONGUEAU and thence by bus to MERICOURT.
1945 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – North West Europe
After a, pause at Vreden the 3rd and 4th April were spent in clearing an area north of Gronau (5102) and Ochtrup (6201). No enemy were encountered.
1945- 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI - NWE Stockhausen
0850 - Left HASBERGEN in TCV's the Ulsters being in the lead today.
Through OSEDE & BISSENDORF & BLASHEIM to STOCKHAUSEN.
1815 - 1st Bn. 52nd - halted in Brussels on the way to Grammont,(Waterloo campaign)
1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – VARENNES - SARTON.
2.30PM. The Regiment as part of 5th Infantry Brigade marched via ACHEUX – LOUVENCOURT – MARIEUX to billets in SARTON (previously occupied Sept-Oct 1916).
Billets fairly comfortable and everyone would like to have stayed there.
Lt Col C S Baines DSO, 52nd Light Infantry, commanding 2/7th Bn Kings (Liverpool) Regiment visited the Regiment.
The 93rd Reinforcement, Serjeant Beard, 2 Corporals and 95 Lance Corporals and Privates joined the Regiment.
Promotion of 2/Lt John Brown Murray to be Lieutenant.
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – S URBANO VIGO MONTE DI SOVIZZO.
Coys Resting.
Working Party of 2 Officers & 100 OR A Coy sent to THIENE for work at railhead, there till further orders.
CO attended Divisional Conference at S URBANO.
Ration Strength: 40 Officers 793 OR. Casualties: NIL
1918 –5th (S) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - engaged Battle of the Avre. (France)
Driven from position by enemy and lost heavily.
Heavy bombardment opens at 5.25 a.m.
About 8 a.m. Germans attack, employing at least four waves of troops.
Both flanks go;
Battalion forced to evacuate position.
Line taken up south of Vaire.
Casualties:
Killed 2nd Lieut. E. N. N. Sellman,
Wounded; Lieut. C. R. Charsley, 2nd Lieuts. Cliff, Borman, Horncastle, S. Clark, R. N. Addington, Wounded and Missing: Major A. M. Labouchere (died while a prisoner, on the 20th April.—ed.)
Missing: Lieut. L. V. D. Owen,
Other ranks killed, wounded, and missing, about 160.
1918 - 2/4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - To LONGUEAU and thence by bus to MERICOURT.
1945 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – North West Europe
After a, pause at Vreden the 3rd and 4th April were spent in clearing an area north of Gronau (5102) and Ochtrup (6201). No enemy were encountered.
1945- 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI - NWE Stockhausen
0850 - Left HASBERGEN in TCV's the Ulsters being in the lead today.
Through OSEDE & BISSENDORF & BLASHEIM to STOCKHAUSEN.
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