On this day 11th NOVEMBER
1901 – 1st Bn Oxf LI – occupied Rhenoster River line of Blockhouses.
1914 - 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - Attacked and routed the Prussian Guard at Battle of Nonne Bosschen. (First Battle of Ypres)
Killed=2nd Lieutenant J JONES and 4 men=5. Wounded= Lieutenant C S BAINES and 18 others =19. Missing=3. Total=27
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – LE NOUVEAU MONDE.
1917–1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion - LE PENDU CAMP
A Coy working on improvement to camp all day.
Remaining 3 Coys attended Church Parade on Bn football ground in the Morning.
1918 - Armistice with Germany declared
1923 – The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry -
THE Regimental War Memorial, a handsome stone obelisk, twenty-nine feet high, designed by Sir E. Lutyens, R.A., stands at the junction of the Henley and Cowley roads near Iffley.
It commemorates the loss of 5,878 officers and men in the War of 1914-19, and was unveiled on Sunday, November 11th, 1923, by Maj.-Gen. Sir John Hanbury-Williams, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., C.M.G., Colonel of the Regiment.
1931 – The Regimental Memorial Chapel was dedicated in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford by the Bishop of Oxford at 12 noon. The Colonel of the Regiment handed over to the Dean the Chapel and the Roll of Honour.
1901 – 1st Bn Oxf LI – occupied Rhenoster River line of Blockhouses.
1914 - 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - Attacked and routed the Prussian Guard at Battle of Nonne Bosschen. (First Battle of Ypres)
Killed=2nd Lieutenant J JONES and 4 men=5. Wounded= Lieutenant C S BAINES and 18 others =19. Missing=3. Total=27
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – LE NOUVEAU MONDE.
1917–1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion - LE PENDU CAMP
A Coy working on improvement to camp all day.
Remaining 3 Coys attended Church Parade on Bn football ground in the Morning.
1918 - Armistice with Germany declared
1923 – The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry -
THE Regimental War Memorial, a handsome stone obelisk, twenty-nine feet high, designed by Sir E. Lutyens, R.A., stands at the junction of the Henley and Cowley roads near Iffley.
It commemorates the loss of 5,878 officers and men in the War of 1914-19, and was unveiled on Sunday, November 11th, 1923, by Maj.-Gen. Sir John Hanbury-Williams, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., C.M.G., Colonel of the Regiment.
1931 – The Regimental Memorial Chapel was dedicated in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford by the Bishop of Oxford at 12 noon. The Colonel of the Regiment handed over to the Dean the Chapel and the Roll of Honour.
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