1810 – Light Division - Ciudad Rodrigo capitulated
1916 –2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – VILLERS-AU-BOIS
Quiet day.
Expected mine to go up but it didn’t.
1916 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – HEBUTERNE
Battalion in Trenches.
B du 140 drained – a new trench connecting the sapheads in front of H sector with the 1st barricade on the HEBUTERNE – SERRE road was dug.
A Coy 1st BUCKS BN provided a carrying party of 2 platoons.
1944 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI – CHATEAU ST COME.
Our recce patrols last night were very successful in pinpointing the enemy disposns.
At 16.30 this afternoon the 12th Para Bn put a small attack about a mile to our SOUTH with very strong arty sp. The enemy reactions were [active?] and part of his DF fire came down in the Regt's area causing us three casualties.
1944 – 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion - NORMANDY
On the 10th July No. 6 Beach Group was dissolved officially. It had, in fact, disintegrated before this date, as its components had passed one by one to the command of higher formations. For the first time since the 5th April, 1943, Battalion headquarters was left with only the Battalion to command—a strange sensation. As the staff captain was without a group to administer Captain J. D. Bicknell was ordered to join headquarters, No. 101 Beach Sub-Area, which had formed a staff to move into Caen as soon as the town fell. He left the Battalion, with which he had served uninterruptedly since the 27th September, 1940, on the afternoon of the 10th July, 1944.
1956 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI (43rd & 52nd) -The Regiment arrived at Brentwood at 11.30 hrs and moved to Warley Barracks