On this day 8th July
1810 - 52nd - at Val de la Mula, near the River Coa (Portugal).
1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – LEFT BATTALION FRONT.
Quiet day.
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – GRUMO & CEREDA.
Very Hot still.
All men on Working parties yesterday were ordered to be given a holiday today.
This left only about 50 Other Ranks in the Battalion, who worked on digging trenches for a new assault course and marking out a football ground on the Training Field.
C.O. & two other Officers reconnoitred Line of the ASTICO.
Ration Strength: 24 Officers 701 OR. Casualties: NIL.
1944 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI :-Operation Sally (Normandy)
1944 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI – CHATEAU ST COME.
Our patrol activity last night was on a small scale but useful infm was gained concerning some of the enemy disposns on our front as indicated by 12 DEVON. To-day has been a quiet one - though "A" Coy suffered a few casualties from enemy arty and mortar fire. Coys have spent the day making any necessary adjustments in their layout and in generally strengthening our posns. Our snipers have been getting to know the lie of the land but their fd of operations is somewhat cramped as the enemy posns are within 250 yds of our most fwd posns.
1944 - 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion - NORMANDY
The patient vigil of the Battalion snipers was at last rewarded on the 8th July, when first a German officer and later a soldier were knocked off from the Point du Siege at a range of 600 yards.
1810 - 52nd - at Val de la Mula, near the River Coa (Portugal).
1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – LEFT BATTALION FRONT.
Quiet day.
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – GRUMO & CEREDA.
Very Hot still.
All men on Working parties yesterday were ordered to be given a holiday today.
This left only about 50 Other Ranks in the Battalion, who worked on digging trenches for a new assault course and marking out a football ground on the Training Field.
C.O. & two other Officers reconnoitred Line of the ASTICO.
Ration Strength: 24 Officers 701 OR. Casualties: NIL.
1944 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI :-Operation Sally (Normandy)
1944 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI – CHATEAU ST COME.
Our patrol activity last night was on a small scale but useful infm was gained concerning some of the enemy disposns on our front as indicated by 12 DEVON. To-day has been a quiet one - though "A" Coy suffered a few casualties from enemy arty and mortar fire. Coys have spent the day making any necessary adjustments in their layout and in generally strengthening our posns. Our snipers have been getting to know the lie of the land but their fd of operations is somewhat cramped as the enemy posns are within 250 yds of our most fwd posns.
1944 - 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion - NORMANDY
The patient vigil of the Battalion snipers was at last rewarded on the 8th July, when first a German officer and later a soldier were knocked off from the Point du Siege at a range of 600 yards.
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