On this day 26th OCTOBER
1818 – The Army of Occupation in France broke up
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – MARLES-LES-MINES.
1917–1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion - VILLERS-AU-BOIS.
Ration Strength 35 officers 814 OR
1941 - 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - The brigade commander (Brigadier Smyth), who had been appointed to command a brigade overseas, came to say good-bye to the Regiment. He spoke to all officers and non-commissioned officers and told them that the brigade had been chosen for conversion to an airlanding brigade in an airborne division. This division was to be commanded by Major-General F. A. M. Browning and the airlanding brigade by Brigadier G. F. Hopkinson, who had raised and commanded the G.H.Q. Reconnaissance Unit (Phantom).
1944 - The 1st Bucks Battalion moved to BRUSSELS
Here they remained until March 1945 when the battalion became one of the ' T ' Force Units of 21 Army Group.
1818 – The Army of Occupation in France broke up
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – MARLES-LES-MINES.
1917–1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion - VILLERS-AU-BOIS.
Ration Strength 35 officers 814 OR
1941 - 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - The brigade commander (Brigadier Smyth), who had been appointed to command a brigade overseas, came to say good-bye to the Regiment. He spoke to all officers and non-commissioned officers and told them that the brigade had been chosen for conversion to an airlanding brigade in an airborne division. This division was to be commanded by Major-General F. A. M. Browning and the airlanding brigade by Brigadier G. F. Hopkinson, who had raised and commanded the G.H.Q. Reconnaissance Unit (Phantom).
1944 - The 1st Bucks Battalion moved to BRUSSELS
Here they remained until March 1945 when the battalion became one of the ' T ' Force Units of 21 Army Group.
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