On this day 14th April
1815 - 2nd Bn. 52nd LI - embarked at Ostend for England.
1869 – 43rd-Embarked on HMS Orontes and sailed for Ireland (Curragh).
1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI.
Very cold and unpleasant.
B and D Coys (Right and Left) of the Purple System at night.
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – S URBANO VIGO MONTE DI SOVIZZO.
Sunday.
Wet.
No Church Parade.
A Coy Working Party rejoined during the day.
Ration Strength: 36 Officers 680 OR. Casualties: NIL.
1918 - 2/4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – BATTLE OF THE LYS (Fourth Ypres)
At 6.30 a.m., in continuation of the policy of the previous day, C Company, assisted by the L.T.M.'s, occupied the farm at Q.20.a.5.8, and also drove the enemy out of the house at Q.14.c.8.2.
During the morning it appeared that the houses about Q.20. central were not held by the enemy, civilians being seen moving among them, and no fire being directed at, our aeroplanes from the area. A battle patrol, consisting of a platoon of A Company, was accordingly sent to find out whether the ground was held by the enemy, with orders to reach the road running through Q.20.b. and d. if only slight opposition was met with, when our line would have been advanced to include the houses and enclosures in Q.20. The patrol reached the road immediately west of the houses without opposition, but came under machine-gun and rifle fire from the houses east of the Honnebecq when a further advance was attempted. After a short fire fight the patrol withdrew, covered by Lewis-gun fire from the farm at Q.20.a.5.8.
Riez-du-Vinage was attacked and captured by the 4th Division operating on the Battalion's right during the afternoon, in consequence of which A Company swung its right forward south-east of Carvin, in order to join up with the left flank of the 1st Hants.
Casualties: Lieut. H. C. Banton, wounded; other ranks : 3 killed, 22 wounded, 1 missing.
1918 - 5th (S) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - Marched to LAIRES.
Move to Laires (14-mile march); arrive 6 p.m.
Draft of 11 officers and 323 other ranks from 6th Somersets amalgamated with the Battalion.
1945 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – North West Europe
At 0545 hrs during stand-to, the enemy launched a determined counter-attack, designed to annihilate the Aller bridgehead at Rethem. At the time the 4th Royal Welch Fusiliers and 1st Highland Light Infantry were forming up in the Regimental area for a further advance.
Some enemy infiltrated into the Regiment's position, but D Company and, later, B Company cleared them out during the day, capturing the commander and headquarters staff of the 1st Battalion Marine Regiment, fifty other prisoners and two 10.5 field guns.
1945 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI - NWE Heitlingen
After some waiting about & several changes in timing the Regt left HEITLINGEN in TCV's & following the main axis behind 15th (S) Div spent the night a few miles North of CELLE. Houses there are very scarce & about half the regiment had to sleep in the woods.
1953 - 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI (43rd & 52nd) - The Regiment embarked in H.M.T. Empire Ken at Port Said.
1815 - 2nd Bn. 52nd LI - embarked at Ostend for England.
1869 – 43rd-Embarked on HMS Orontes and sailed for Ireland (Curragh).
1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI.
Very cold and unpleasant.
B and D Coys (Right and Left) of the Purple System at night.
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – S URBANO VIGO MONTE DI SOVIZZO.
Sunday.
Wet.
No Church Parade.
A Coy Working Party rejoined during the day.
Ration Strength: 36 Officers 680 OR. Casualties: NIL.
1918 - 2/4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – BATTLE OF THE LYS (Fourth Ypres)
At 6.30 a.m., in continuation of the policy of the previous day, C Company, assisted by the L.T.M.'s, occupied the farm at Q.20.a.5.8, and also drove the enemy out of the house at Q.14.c.8.2.
During the morning it appeared that the houses about Q.20. central were not held by the enemy, civilians being seen moving among them, and no fire being directed at, our aeroplanes from the area. A battle patrol, consisting of a platoon of A Company, was accordingly sent to find out whether the ground was held by the enemy, with orders to reach the road running through Q.20.b. and d. if only slight opposition was met with, when our line would have been advanced to include the houses and enclosures in Q.20. The patrol reached the road immediately west of the houses without opposition, but came under machine-gun and rifle fire from the houses east of the Honnebecq when a further advance was attempted. After a short fire fight the patrol withdrew, covered by Lewis-gun fire from the farm at Q.20.a.5.8.
Riez-du-Vinage was attacked and captured by the 4th Division operating on the Battalion's right during the afternoon, in consequence of which A Company swung its right forward south-east of Carvin, in order to join up with the left flank of the 1st Hants.
Casualties: Lieut. H. C. Banton, wounded; other ranks : 3 killed, 22 wounded, 1 missing.
1918 - 5th (S) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - Marched to LAIRES.
Move to Laires (14-mile march); arrive 6 p.m.
Draft of 11 officers and 323 other ranks from 6th Somersets amalgamated with the Battalion.
1945 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – North West Europe
At 0545 hrs during stand-to, the enemy launched a determined counter-attack, designed to annihilate the Aller bridgehead at Rethem. At the time the 4th Royal Welch Fusiliers and 1st Highland Light Infantry were forming up in the Regimental area for a further advance.
Some enemy infiltrated into the Regiment's position, but D Company and, later, B Company cleared them out during the day, capturing the commander and headquarters staff of the 1st Battalion Marine Regiment, fifty other prisoners and two 10.5 field guns.
1945 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI - NWE Heitlingen
After some waiting about & several changes in timing the Regt left HEITLINGEN in TCV's & following the main axis behind 15th (S) Div spent the night a few miles North of CELLE. Houses there are very scarce & about half the regiment had to sleep in the woods.
1953 - 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI (43rd & 52nd) - The Regiment embarked in H.M.T. Empire Ken at Port Said.
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