​On this day 6th August
 
1812 - After Salamanca, the Light Division at the head of the Army, marched on Madrid.
 
1880 – 52nd – Moved from Aldershot to Chatham.
 
1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – LEFT FRONT BATTALION AREA.
The Regiment was relieved by the 24th (S) Bn, Royal Fusiliers and withdrew to the area of the Reserve Battalion.
 
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – GRANEZZA.
Coys Training in the Morning
Advance Parties of 1 Officer per Company and 1 NCO and 1 Lewis Gunner per Platoon proceeded to Left Brigade, Left Sub Sector for attachment for 24 hours.
Ration Strength: 26 Officers 608 OR.  Casualties: 1 OR to Hospital – Sick.
 
1933 – 4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – Annual Camp – WINDMILL HILL.
 
1933 – Buckinghamshire Battalion – Annual Camp – WINDMILL HILL.
 
1944 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI – BREVILLE & AMFREVILLE-Normandy
Enemy mortars less active last night.  The Bde counter-mortar org was in action for the first time today, firing 36 mortars of the Bde as one bty; the results were excellent.  At 2100 hrs 'A' Coy snipers reported that a party of about 40 Germans had moved into the orchard 144752 and had started digging in.  They were engaged by the Bde mortars and the Lt Arty.
 
1944 – 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – OUISTREHAM -Normandy
Normal routine.  No shelling to speak of just the odd one or two now and then.
1500 - Visit of Comd 1 Corps to Bn HQ.  Only paid flying visit, stayed 10 mins.
1600 - Received instructions that further coy and 2 pls required the other side of R ORNE with effect 7 Aug 44. 
Comd Offr decided to withdraw 'A' Coy from YORK BRIDGE and put in 'D' Coy there (50 men) and put whole of 'A' Coy into this new posn.  Coy to come under 6 Airborne Div delegated to 49 Recce Regt and act as a sort of long-stop to the regt.  Probable duration of stay said to be 3 days.

​On this day 5th August
 
1827 – 43rd – Occupation of Portugal, 43rd quartered at Barro.
 
1914 - 4th (T.F.) Bn. Oxf & Bucks LI - mobilized at Oxford;
 
1914 - Bucks Bn (T.F.) mobilised at Aylesbury and proceeded to Cosham, Hants.
 
1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – LEFT FRONT BATTALION AREA.
 
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – GRANEZZA.
B Coy on Working Party
C Coy on the Range in the Afternoon
A & D Coys Training in the Morning
In the Afternoon the Left Half Battalion beat BERKS Right Half Battalion in Brigade Football Competition.
Ration Strength: 25 Officers 608 OR. 
Casualties: 2LT L W G LORNS to Hospital - Sick.  7 OR to Hospital – Sick
 
1918 - 2/4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - To ARREWAGE Sector of trenches.
 
1928 - 4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - Annual Camp – SWANAGE.
 
1928 - Buckinghamshire Battalion  - Annual Camp – SWANAGE.
 
1934 – Buckinghamshire Battalion – Annual Camp – MARLBOROUGH.
 
1934 – 4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – Annual Camp – MARLBOROUGH.
 
1944 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI – BREVILLE & AMFREVILLE-Normandy
During the night a heavy mortar conc and a number of shells fell in the Regtl area, only one slight casualty was incurred.  Lt.Col. Roberts left the Regt this afternoon to start the Div Battle Drill School at Ouistreham.  Major M. Darrell Brown has assumed comd for the period of his absence.  One more casualty was incurred from enemy mortar fire during the day.
 
1944 – 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – OUISTREHAM -Normandy
0800 - Shelling of area chiefly round the docks - no military damage or casualties suffered.  About 20 shells fired.
1000 - Our own 3" mortars ranged on their DF tasks - no recriminations encountered.
1030 - Informed by our QMS at Echelon that amendment No 4 to WE has been published although we have not yet received it, and makes provision for a Captain in the Mortar Pl: Mortar Officer Lieut Johnston accordingly promoted to Capt in ROs.
PM - No decision yet taken regarding the appointing of a new commanding officer.  Major Boehm meanwhile carries on as locum tenans.
 
1948 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - 52nd Amalgamating Cadre joined the Regiment under command of Major H. P. Patterson

​On this day 4th August
 
1914 - Great Britain declared war on Germany; mobilization ordered.
 
1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – LEFT FRONT BATTALION AREA.
 
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – GRANEZZA.
A Coy on Working Party
B, C & D Coys attended Special Church Parade of all troops in GRANEZZA it being the 4th anniversary of the declaration of War.
After parade the Battalion marched past the Divisional Commander.
CAPT B C RIGDEN rejoined from SIRMIONE.
2nd LIEUT BAKER rejoined from English Leave.
Ration Strength: 24 Officers 610 OR.  Casualties: 1 OR to Hospital – Sick.
 
1918 - 2/4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - By lorry to THIENNES.(Western Front)
 
1944 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI – BREVILLE & AMFREVILLE-Normandy
A quiet night except for the usual arty activity and a number of enemy a/c attacked their own FDLs.  One of our standing patrols was heavily shelled during the afternoon but otherwise an uneventful day.
 
1944 – 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – OUISTREHAM -Normandy
0150 - 'C' reports operational handover from 'D' Coy now complete.  Handover hampered by incessant shelling of the canal bridge.  No casualties but damage done to EAST side of Lock - not very bad.
0900 - Heard that Lt Col Carse will be evacuated to England and will be hors de combat for approx 5 weeks.
1000 - Corps and Airborne Div informed of casualty.  Recce made for new adv Bn HQ other side of R. ORNE.  Warning order issued to 'S' and 'HQ' Coys.
1500 - Proposed move of Bn HQ postponed due in view of possible amendments to operational role.  Awaiting instructions from 6 Airborne Div.
1600 - New entertainments programmes issued.
 
1972 – 1st Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets – Northern Ireland.
Remembering today – L/Cpl D N CARD
“August was spent patrolling, searching, observing. Every garage, every garden, every drain, every shed were searched and re-searched. It was not long however before the I.R.A. opened fire on one of our bases and in the resulting deployment we wounded a gunman. The follow up went on late into the night and again at dawn the next morning, when suddenly fire was opened up on "B" Company Headquarters, who were moving across some open ground. Sad to say, the Company Commanders radio operator L/Cpl. Card was shot by a sniper in the neck and he died a few minutes later on the way to hospital. The follow up continued and about an hour later Major Garry Johnson, O.C. "B" Company, entered a garage. As he opened the door there was a terrific explosion and the garage was blown to pieces. He was severely injured and three others, Captain Bill Logdon, C.S.M. Osmand and Cpl. Rowledge were sufficiently injured to spend a few days in hospital. The door had activated a booby trap and this was probably the whole object of the incident the previous evening.”

​On this day 3rd August
 
1809 - The Army marched from Talavera to Oropesa; a trying march, owing to the heat and want of water.
 
1914 – The Buckinghamshire Battalion (TF):-
At annual camp near Marlow were roused in the early hours of the morning and ordered to report back to their home drill stations and await orders.
 
1918– 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – LEFT FRONT BATTALION AREA.
Captain F D R Milne MC, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays) arrived to be attached to the Regiment for duty. He was attached to Captain Bailie’s Company.
 
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – GRANEZZA.
D Coy on Working Party.
B & C Coys Training in the Morning.
2nd LIEUT LORNS rejoined from Leave.
Ration Strength: 21 Officers 616 OR.  Casualties: NIL.
 
1929 – 4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – Annual Camp – WROXTON ABBEY PARK
 
1929–Buckinghamshire Battalion – Annual Camp – WESTHORPE PARK, MARLOW.
 
1930 – Buckinghamshire Battalion – Annual Camp – BROOKE, I.O.W.
 
1930 – 4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – Annual Camp – BROOKE, I.O.W.
 
1935 – Buckinghamshire Battalion – Annual Camp – WEYMOUTH.
 
1935 – 4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – Annual Camp – WEYMOUTH.
 
1944 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI – BREVILLE & AMFREVILLE
Enemy mortars more active last night, about 100 bombs landing in the Regtl area.  During the day our mortars registered a number of counter mortar tasks.
 
1944 – 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – OUISTREHAM -Normandy
0445 - German naval rating captured by local AA on coast by Canal entrance.  Sent to PW cage for naval interrogation.  Believed to have come ashore on human torpedo.
0550 - Report that suspicious person had been seen in cornfield near crashed AC.  Sentry fired on him but he ran away into cornfield which was believed mined.
0800 - 'A' Coy searched minefield for suspected German without result.
1000 - 22 men from the Bn go to Corps Rest Camp for four days at MOUDINEAUX Map ref 969802.
1300 - Shelling of area starts.  48 shells land round about.
1730 - One German midget submarine beached at 083801.  Warhead was missing.  No dead or survivors.
1800 - Coy relief.  'C' Coy relieves 'D' Coy on def of docks.  Every Coy now completed tour of duty on this def.
1850 - 'C' Coy phoned completion of adm move with 'D' Coy.
2000 - Shelling started again after a short lull and docks area received a heavy pounding, one man 14365558 Pte Tomkins N. of 'C' Coy killed by a shell.
2030 - Comd Offr went to investigate shelling etc at 'C' Coy and was wounded in the leg.  He had just parked his jeep under the trees and was walking 'C' Coy along the side of the road when a shell landed and exploded approx 10 yards from him. 
The blast threw him to the ground, but despite the shrapnel in his leg he was able to get back to the jeep and drive it to the Mortar Pl office next to 'C' Coy where one of the Pl drove him back to the RAP for treatment. 
Wound is not very serious and he is taken to 6 Canadian Hospital.  Altogether 7 persons were hit and 1 killed by the shelling.  50 shells were sent over. 
Gun team of A tk Pl all wounded and one killed when enemy mortar fire was brought down on site.  Det took cover when a Canadian Machine Gunner nearby warned them that he was going to fire at a snipers' post.  This fire brought the usual reply of mortar fire but as the det was concealed no casualties were caused.  After it had all finished the det came up and were returning to their posts when one more bomb fell between two of them Ayres and Burks, killing Pte Ayres outright and wounding Pte Burks seriously.  Det Comd Cpl Edwards, immediately ordered det to return to slit trenches at once, but before they could all get back another bomb landed and wounded them all.  Cpl Edwards being the last into the trench was more severely wounded than the others.  All were evacuated to 6 Canadian Hospital and were due for evacuation.
2045 - Major Boehm assumes command of Bn pending the return of Lt Col E.A. Carse.
2200 - Shelling started again and continued spasmodically throughout the night.

​On this day 2nd August
 
1830 - The Gorget and Black Cockade abolished
 
1914 – The Buckinghamshire Battalion (TF):-
Arrived at Bovington Green near Marlow, Bucks for their annual camp.
 
1918– 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – LEFT FRONT BATTALION AREA.
A quiet day but very wet and disagreeable day.
Inter Company releifs.
 
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – GRANEZZA.
C Coy on Working party.
Coys did 2 1/2 hours Training during the Morning.
Tactical Exercise for Brigade in Reserve took place in the Evening.
Battalion paraded at 3pm and marched by Mule Track to a point 400 yards NORTH of LANGABISA ROAD and attacked M TORLE.
Battalion all in Billets by 8pm.
CAPT & QM NICHOL rejoined Battalion from Leave.
Ration Strength: 21 Officers 610 OR.  Casualties: 1 OR to Hospital-Sick.
 
1925 – 4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – Annual Camp – WEYMOUTH.
 
1925 – Buckinghamshire Battalion – Annual Camp – WEYMOUTH.
 
1931-Buckinghamshire Battalion - Annual Camp –WHITECLIFF FARM, SWANAGE.
 
1931 - 4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - Annual Camp – WHITECLIFF FARM, SWANAGE.
 
1936 – Buckinghamshire Battalion – Annual Camp – WINDMILL HILL.
 
1936 – 4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – Annual Camp – WINDMILL HILL.
 
1944 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI – BREVILLE & AMFREVILLE
Another quiet day.
 
1944 – 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – OUISTREHAM -Normandy
0800 - 'B' Coy come under comd 6 Airborne Div attached to 52nd (2 Oxf Bucks)
A tk Pl and Carrier Pl also come under comd 6 Airborne Div and take up HQ at 137702. 
3 of Pioneer Pl clearing minefield by 'S' Coy billets to make miniature range injured when mine explodes.  One man 14400442 Pte Higgs S. being killed. 
Total casualties up to 31 Jul now confirmed as 4 killed 49 injured.

​On this day 1st August
 
1914 - 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI -  at Ahmednagar, 17th Brigade, Poona Division (India).
 
1914 - 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – At Aldershot, 5th Brigade, 2nd Division.
 
1917 - 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI -  at AZIZEH (Mesopotamia)
 
1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – LEFT FRONT BATTALION AREA. (WESTERN FRONT)
The Sapping Platoon became the “Pioneer Platoon” and Lt J B Murray “Pioneer Officer” from today.
The regiment was holding the area of the Left Front Battalion taken over from 2nd Highland Light Infantry on 29.7.18.
Lt Col R B Crosse DSO having crossed to England on 28.7.18 to visit 3rd Battalion rejoined the Regiment at POMMIER.
Letter “A” Company to be known as “Captain C W H Bailie’s Company” with effect from this date.
 
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – GRANEZZA (ITALIAN FRONT).
B and D Coys on Training,
C Coy on the Range,
A Coy on Working Party.
Ration Strength: 21 Officers 615 OR.  Casualties: NIL.
 
1932 – THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING OF THE SOMME UNVEILED.
The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave.
Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916.
The memorial also serves as an Anglo-French Battle Memorial in recognition of the joint nature of the 1916 offensive and a small cemetery containing equal numbers of Commonwealth and French graves lies at the foot of the memorial.
On 1 August 1932, Prince Edward, Prince of Wales unveiled the memorial.
Albert Lebrun, President of France and Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial’s architect, attended the ceremony which was in English and French.
642 members of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry are commemorated on the memorial.
52nd Light Infantry.—4 Officers and 124 other ranks.
1/1st Bucks (Territorial) Battalion.— 4 Officers and 126 other ranks.
2/1st Bucks (Territorial) Battalion.—8 other ranks.
1/4th (Territorial) Battalion.—1 Officer and 123 other ranks.
2/4th (Territorial) Battalion.—3 Officer and 31 other ranks.
5th (Service) Battalion.—3 Officers and 70 other ranks.
6th (Service) Battalion.—6 Officers and 124 other ranks.
 
1937–Buckinghamshire Battalion – Annual Camp -TY COCH CAMP, PORTHCAWL.
 
1937–4th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – Annual Camp -TY COCH CAMP, PORTHCAWL.
 
1944 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI – BREVILLE & AMFREVILLE
 'B' Coy, 1st Bucks Bn under comd Major Foster arrived this morning and relieved 'C' Coy who went into the Regtl Rest Area.  Our patrols and snipers have spent the day renewing their acquaintance with the area.  Otherwise it has been a quiet day.
 
1944 – 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – OUISTREHAM -Normandy
On the 1st August a letter was received from Colonel Mont­gomery, No. 101 Beach Sub-Area, thanking everyone for his good work and loyal co-operation.
Following this and the recent change of command, all beach group signs were removed from uniforms and vehicles pending a decision on what sign was to be worn in the future.
 Order of the Day received from Colonel Montgomery 101 Beach Sub-Area on the final closing down and breaking up of the Beach Gps, thanking everyone for their good work and loyal co-operation. 
The Beach Gp sign (known affectionately within the Bn as the WREN sign!) is ordered to be removed from Battle Dress and painted out on vehicles.
0930 - Visit of Div Comd 6 Airborne Div to Bn.  Looked at posn occupied by 'D' Coy on the Docks and discussed future operational role.  Suggested several changes and proposes to set it out in writing. 
'A' Coy sent 50 men to act as guards to the bridges over the river ORNE 115762 coming under comd 4 SS Bde. 
Following Div Comd's visit and severance with 101 Beach Sub-Area Op Orders Nos 2 and 3 are cancelled. 
Adm arrangements now that Bn is under Corps and not L of C are much improved. 
3" mortar amn is drawn immediately without indent and all major deficiencies are made up.
 
1956 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI (43rd & 52nd) – (Warley Barracks, Brentwood)
0815 hrs. The official signal was received informing the Regiment that the move to Hong Kong was cancelled.
All ranks were immediately recalled from leave to prepare for a move to the Middle East.