On this day 10th March
1879 – 43rd – Left Madras (India) for Rangoon (Burma).
1886 – 1st Bn Oxf LI – Left Quetta, Biluchistan, having lost 1 Officer and 92 men in 10 months from sickness.
1900 - 1st Bn Oxf LI - on rear-guard at Driefontein (South Africa, Boer War).
1909 – 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – New equipment (1908 Mills Burrows Webbing) and new bayonet (1907 pattern) issued and taken into wear.
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – ALBERT
Such training and drill as the weather and ground made possible was carried out.
1917 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – TRENCHES.
Bn in trenches. –
Just about 4am enemy sent over a gas shell which burst directly in the entrance to the Right Coy (A) HQ dugout, gassing the occupants, 3 Officers & 15 OR all of whom were dead by 10am.
Otherwise Quiet Day.
Trenches in V bad condition by evening.
Casualties: Killed Officers 3 (CAPT J.B.D. WARWICK, 2/LT S WISEMAN, 2/LT R.B.COOPER-SMITH) OR 15. Wounded 4 Missing 1
Ration Strength 22 Officers 681 OR.
1917 – 5th (S) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – To ARRAS.
1879 – 43rd – Left Madras (India) for Rangoon (Burma).
1886 – 1st Bn Oxf LI – Left Quetta, Biluchistan, having lost 1 Officer and 92 men in 10 months from sickness.
1900 - 1st Bn Oxf LI - on rear-guard at Driefontein (South Africa, Boer War).
1909 – 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – New equipment (1908 Mills Burrows Webbing) and new bayonet (1907 pattern) issued and taken into wear.
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – ALBERT
Such training and drill as the weather and ground made possible was carried out.
1917 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – TRENCHES.
Bn in trenches. –
Just about 4am enemy sent over a gas shell which burst directly in the entrance to the Right Coy (A) HQ dugout, gassing the occupants, 3 Officers & 15 OR all of whom were dead by 10am.
Otherwise Quiet Day.
Trenches in V bad condition by evening.
Casualties: Killed Officers 3 (CAPT J.B.D. WARWICK, 2/LT S WISEMAN, 2/LT R.B.COOPER-SMITH) OR 15. Wounded 4 Missing 1
Ration Strength 22 Officers 681 OR.
1917 – 5th (S) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – To ARRAS.
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