On this day 12th June
1776 - 43rd and 52nd - left Halifax (Nova Scotia) for Staten Island.
1813 – Light Division – At Horillas (Spain) caught up with the French rearguard and was occupied all day.
1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – LEFT FRONT BATTALION.
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – MONTE LEMERLE.
Brigade Support.
Working Parties and cases of Sickness continue numerous.
Guns busy cutting wire.
Coy Commanders spent most of the day in O.P.s observing.
Rain fell nearly all day.
Ration Strength: 26 Officers 649 OR Casualties NIL
1918 - 5th Bn. Oxf & Bucks LI - Cadre to ROYON.
1944 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI -HEROUVILETTE
After a quiet night the unit started checking up on a few administrative details, checking over kit and equipment and making sure that everything was in fighting order.
During the evening the Regiment were spectators of the "closing of the BREVILLE gap" in the NW of the outer crest of the Divisional defences. This was accomplished in a most spectacular manner with a "Corps" Artillery shoot as a preliminary to the attack and occupation by infantry.
The men had a rough bath - the first since leaving England.
1776 - 43rd and 52nd - left Halifax (Nova Scotia) for Staten Island.
1813 – Light Division – At Horillas (Spain) caught up with the French rearguard and was occupied all day.
1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – LEFT FRONT BATTALION.
1918 –1/1stBuckinghamshire Battalion – MONTE LEMERLE.
Brigade Support.
Working Parties and cases of Sickness continue numerous.
Guns busy cutting wire.
Coy Commanders spent most of the day in O.P.s observing.
Rain fell nearly all day.
Ration Strength: 26 Officers 649 OR Casualties NIL
1918 - 5th Bn. Oxf & Bucks LI - Cadre to ROYON.
1944 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI -HEROUVILETTE
After a quiet night the unit started checking up on a few administrative details, checking over kit and equipment and making sure that everything was in fighting order.
During the evening the Regiment were spectators of the "closing of the BREVILLE gap" in the NW of the outer crest of the Divisional defences. This was accomplished in a most spectacular manner with a "Corps" Artillery shoot as a preliminary to the attack and occupation by infantry.
The men had a rough bath - the first since leaving England.
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