On this day 18th May
1915 - 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – RICHEBOURG to LA BELLE RIVE near GONNEHEM – 10 Miles.
Paraded at 2pm and marched in Brigade through LE TOURET, AVELETTE, HINGES to LABELLE RIVE a very small scattered village.
In the evening the 20th Reinforcement of 130 men joined the Regiment.
Casualties: 15th-18th May:
Killed:
Capt F H BEAUFORT
Lieut R E B BULL
Lieut D H W HUMFREY
2Lieut L A DASHWOOD
2Lieut F E L RIDDLE
And 42 Men
Total= 47
Wounded:
Capt H M DILLON
Capt G BLEWITT
Capt S F HAMMICK
TLieut W G TOLSON
Lieut C S BAINES DSO
Lieut G W TITHERINGTON
Lieut D A D SEWELL
Lieut J W G WYLD
Lieut E H WHITFELD
2Lieut W J EIGHTEEN
2Lieut C DEAN
2Lieut W L BARNARD
And 270 men + 2 RAMC Men attached
Total = 284
Missing:
Bt Major E H KIRKPATRICK
Lieut C J WARNER
Lieut R D RENDEL
And 61 Men
Total = 64
Grand total: = 395
Most probably the Missing are either Killed or Wounded, as some of the area fought over was not won and it was impossible to search it even after dark.
All the area also between our original front line and the German Line was so shell swept, it is very probable many bodies were entirely destroyed by this fire.
1915 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – PLOEGSTEERT WOOD
Very Quiet. – Enemy shelled PLOGSTEERT village.
Relieved about 8pm by 5/GLOSTERS.
Raining most of day-trenches very wet.
1945 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - Bad Kleinen
Leaving LUNEBURG at 0400 hrs, we were taken in TCV's to an airfield near CELLE. The unit transport under Maj. P.K. Everett was left at LUNEBURG, whence it will start on its journey to ANTWERP. At the airfield there was considerable delay & eventually about half the Regiment took off in Dakota aircraft, landing at Greenham Common near NEWBURY, where trucks were waiting to take us to BULFORD.
1948 - A.C.I. 368 received amalgamating the 43rd and the 52nd.
1915 - 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – RICHEBOURG to LA BELLE RIVE near GONNEHEM – 10 Miles.
Paraded at 2pm and marched in Brigade through LE TOURET, AVELETTE, HINGES to LABELLE RIVE a very small scattered village.
In the evening the 20th Reinforcement of 130 men joined the Regiment.
Casualties: 15th-18th May:
Killed:
Capt F H BEAUFORT
Lieut R E B BULL
Lieut D H W HUMFREY
2Lieut L A DASHWOOD
2Lieut F E L RIDDLE
And 42 Men
Total= 47
Wounded:
Capt H M DILLON
Capt G BLEWITT
Capt S F HAMMICK
TLieut W G TOLSON
Lieut C S BAINES DSO
Lieut G W TITHERINGTON
Lieut D A D SEWELL
Lieut J W G WYLD
Lieut E H WHITFELD
2Lieut W J EIGHTEEN
2Lieut C DEAN
2Lieut W L BARNARD
And 270 men + 2 RAMC Men attached
Total = 284
Missing:
Bt Major E H KIRKPATRICK
Lieut C J WARNER
Lieut R D RENDEL
And 61 Men
Total = 64
Grand total: = 395
Most probably the Missing are either Killed or Wounded, as some of the area fought over was not won and it was impossible to search it even after dark.
All the area also between our original front line and the German Line was so shell swept, it is very probable many bodies were entirely destroyed by this fire.
1915 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – PLOEGSTEERT WOOD
Very Quiet. – Enemy shelled PLOGSTEERT village.
Relieved about 8pm by 5/GLOSTERS.
Raining most of day-trenches very wet.
1945 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - Bad Kleinen
Leaving LUNEBURG at 0400 hrs, we were taken in TCV's to an airfield near CELLE. The unit transport under Maj. P.K. Everett was left at LUNEBURG, whence it will start on its journey to ANTWERP. At the airfield there was considerable delay & eventually about half the Regiment took off in Dakota aircraft, landing at Greenham Common near NEWBURY, where trucks were waiting to take us to BULFORD.
1948 - A.C.I. 368 received amalgamating the 43rd and the 52nd.
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