On this day 15th September
1857 – 52nd – took part in severe street fighting in Delhi.
1916 - 5th (S) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI present at GUEDECOURT - Battle of Flers-Courcellette;(Somme)
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – CAMBRIN.
C Coy as Support Company began to dig new Burbure Alley round the North Face of Arthurs Keep.
Casualties – Wounded = 1 (Sgt Boddington)
1917–1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – ROAD CAMP ST JAN TER BIEZEN.
Companies continued training. All companies had baths during the day starting at 11am.
Advance billeting party under CAPT G R CROUCH left at 6.30am for training area NW of ST OMER. The portion of Battn which was not to be entrained left at 9am. This consisted of 2 GS Wagons, Grenade Limber, SAA Limber & spares horses.
In the Afternoon numbers of Officers & Men from 2nd BUCKS Battn visited the camp and a football match was played in which the 1st Battn were successful by 3 goals to 2.
This was the first occasion on which the two battalions had had any good opportunity of visiting each other.
The following awards of Decorations were notified;
CAPT H J PULLMAN MILITARY CROSS
2nd LIEUT L G REEVES MILITARY CROSS
The following Officers joined the Battn on First Commission from 1st Battn ARTISTS RIFLES:-
2nd LIEUT F B BATES Posted to C Company
2nd LIEUT F J A CORFIELD Posted to B Company
2nd LIEUT C B ELLWOOD Posted to D Company
2nd LIEUT V C P COLISHAW Posted to D Company
2nd LIEUT W V STOKES Posted to A Company
Ration Strength 27 officers 580 OR
1917 – 5th (S) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – To DOULIEU area.
1955 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI (43rd & 52nd) - General Sir Bernard Paget GCB, DSO, MC, handed over Colonelcy of the Regiment to Major General Sir John Winterton KCB, KCMG, CBE.
1857 – 52nd – took part in severe street fighting in Delhi.
1916 - 5th (S) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI present at GUEDECOURT - Battle of Flers-Courcellette;(Somme)
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – CAMBRIN.
C Coy as Support Company began to dig new Burbure Alley round the North Face of Arthurs Keep.
Casualties – Wounded = 1 (Sgt Boddington)
1917–1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – ROAD CAMP ST JAN TER BIEZEN.
Companies continued training. All companies had baths during the day starting at 11am.
Advance billeting party under CAPT G R CROUCH left at 6.30am for training area NW of ST OMER. The portion of Battn which was not to be entrained left at 9am. This consisted of 2 GS Wagons, Grenade Limber, SAA Limber & spares horses.
In the Afternoon numbers of Officers & Men from 2nd BUCKS Battn visited the camp and a football match was played in which the 1st Battn were successful by 3 goals to 2.
This was the first occasion on which the two battalions had had any good opportunity of visiting each other.
The following awards of Decorations were notified;
CAPT H J PULLMAN MILITARY CROSS
2nd LIEUT L G REEVES MILITARY CROSS
The following Officers joined the Battn on First Commission from 1st Battn ARTISTS RIFLES:-
2nd LIEUT F B BATES Posted to C Company
2nd LIEUT F J A CORFIELD Posted to B Company
2nd LIEUT C B ELLWOOD Posted to D Company
2nd LIEUT V C P COLISHAW Posted to D Company
2nd LIEUT W V STOKES Posted to A Company
Ration Strength 27 officers 580 OR
1917 – 5th (S) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – To DOULIEU area.
1955 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI (43rd & 52nd) - General Sir Bernard Paget GCB, DSO, MC, handed over Colonelcy of the Regiment to Major General Sir John Winterton KCB, KCMG, CBE.
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