On this day 14th April
1815 - 2nd Bn. 52nd LI - embarked at Ostend for England.
1869 – 43rd-Embarked on HMS Orontes and sailed for Ireland (Curragh).
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – MAROEUIL.
Major Barnes D.S.O. took over temporary Command of the Regiment vice Lt Col Crosse D.S.O. (sick).
Casualties: Killed 2. Wounded 3.
1917 - 14th/15th APRIL 1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI
The Regiment relieved the 24th Royal Fusiliers in the Front Line.
Headquarters moving to a dugout in the Railway Embankment.
There was considerable delay and some confusion over the relief due chiefly to the non-arrival of ration and water pack transport at the proper places, the convoy having been misled by its guides.
The line which the regiment was to hold ran parallel to and about 1000x from the OPPY-ARLEUX and ARLEUX SWITCH Trenches which were held by the enemy.
The disposition of the Regiment was A, B & D Coys each with 2 platoons in the Front Line posts and C Coy in posts round the Sugar Factory.
Owing to the difficulty in finding the posts in the intense darkness the relief was not complete till after daylight.
1917 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – E29b64
IN CAMP (BDE SUPPORT)
B & C Coys got back to camp about 7.30am.
Transport moved up from MARQUAIX to EAST end of VILERS FAUCON.
1 Coy working on DIVL Line of resistance (see map D) throughout night.
Ration Strength 20 officers 640 OR.
1945 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – North West Europe
At 0545 hrs during stand-to, the enemy launched a determined counter-attack, designed to annihilate the Aller bridgehead at Rethem. At the time the 4th Royal Welch Fusiliers and 1st Highland Light Infantry were forming up in the Regimental area for a further advance.
Some enemy infiltrated into the Regiment's position, but D Company and, later, B Company cleared them out during the day, capturing the commander and headquarters staff of the 1st Battalion Marine Regiment, fifty other prisoners and two 10.5 field guns.
1945 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI - NWE Heitlingen
After some waiting about & several changes in timing the Regt left HEITLINGEN in TCV's & following the main axis behind 15th (S) Div spent the night a few miles North of CELLE. Houses there are very scarce & about half the regiment had to sleep in the woods.
1953 - 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI (43rd & 52nd) - The Regiment embarked in H.M.T. Empire Ken at Port Said.
1815 - 2nd Bn. 52nd LI - embarked at Ostend for England.
1869 – 43rd-Embarked on HMS Orontes and sailed for Ireland (Curragh).
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – MAROEUIL.
Major Barnes D.S.O. took over temporary Command of the Regiment vice Lt Col Crosse D.S.O. (sick).
Casualties: Killed 2. Wounded 3.
1917 - 14th/15th APRIL 1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI
The Regiment relieved the 24th Royal Fusiliers in the Front Line.
Headquarters moving to a dugout in the Railway Embankment.
There was considerable delay and some confusion over the relief due chiefly to the non-arrival of ration and water pack transport at the proper places, the convoy having been misled by its guides.
The line which the regiment was to hold ran parallel to and about 1000x from the OPPY-ARLEUX and ARLEUX SWITCH Trenches which were held by the enemy.
The disposition of the Regiment was A, B & D Coys each with 2 platoons in the Front Line posts and C Coy in posts round the Sugar Factory.
Owing to the difficulty in finding the posts in the intense darkness the relief was not complete till after daylight.
1917 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – E29b64
IN CAMP (BDE SUPPORT)
B & C Coys got back to camp about 7.30am.
Transport moved up from MARQUAIX to EAST end of VILERS FAUCON.
1 Coy working on DIVL Line of resistance (see map D) throughout night.
Ration Strength 20 officers 640 OR.
1945 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – North West Europe
At 0545 hrs during stand-to, the enemy launched a determined counter-attack, designed to annihilate the Aller bridgehead at Rethem. At the time the 4th Royal Welch Fusiliers and 1st Highland Light Infantry were forming up in the Regimental area for a further advance.
Some enemy infiltrated into the Regiment's position, but D Company and, later, B Company cleared them out during the day, capturing the commander and headquarters staff of the 1st Battalion Marine Regiment, fifty other prisoners and two 10.5 field guns.
1945 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI - NWE Heitlingen
After some waiting about & several changes in timing the Regt left HEITLINGEN in TCV's & following the main axis behind 15th (S) Div spent the night a few miles North of CELLE. Houses there are very scarce & about half the regiment had to sleep in the woods.
1953 - 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI (43rd & 52nd) - The Regiment embarked in H.M.T. Empire Ken at Port Said.
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