On this day 1st May
1885 - 43rd - left wing reached Quetta (Baluchistan).
1916 –2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – BULLY-GRENAY.
1916 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – COIGNEUX
Battalion in Billets.
Regimental tour under BDE. CO, 2nd in Command, Adjutant, all Coy Commanders, Lewis Gun officers attended. Rendezvous J7b65 at 10am.
Orders received in evening to take over line.
1945 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – Germany NWE
The Regiment left Gyhum (0515) at 1340 hrs. in troop-canying vehicles and moved along the Reichsautobahn to the cross-roads at 316311, thence through Tostedt (3122), Trelde (3726), Liillau (4523), Jesteburg (4825) and Hanstedt (5220) to Quarrendorf (5322), which was reached at 1640 hrs. and where the Regiment moved into comfortable farmhouses before crossing the River Elbe.
1945 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - Nostorf 9438 Germany
D Coy in the lead, the Regiment marched unopposed via BUKHAUSEN to NOSTORF, arriving at about 0400 hrs. 196 P.O.W. came in during the day, or were rounded up in the neighbouring farms & woods.
1885 - 43rd - left wing reached Quetta (Baluchistan).
1916 –2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – BULLY-GRENAY.
1916 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – COIGNEUX
Battalion in Billets.
Regimental tour under BDE. CO, 2nd in Command, Adjutant, all Coy Commanders, Lewis Gun officers attended. Rendezvous J7b65 at 10am.
Orders received in evening to take over line.
1945 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – Germany NWE
The Regiment left Gyhum (0515) at 1340 hrs. in troop-canying vehicles and moved along the Reichsautobahn to the cross-roads at 316311, thence through Tostedt (3122), Trelde (3726), Liillau (4523), Jesteburg (4825) and Hanstedt (5220) to Quarrendorf (5322), which was reached at 1640 hrs. and where the Regiment moved into comfortable farmhouses before crossing the River Elbe.
1945 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - Nostorf 9438 Germany
D Coy in the lead, the Regiment marched unopposed via BUKHAUSEN to NOSTORF, arriving at about 0400 hrs. 196 P.O.W. came in during the day, or were rounded up in the neighbouring farms & woods.
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