On this day 27th April

On this day 27th April
 
1810 – 43rd and 52nd - Light Division – marched to Almeida. (Peninsula)
 
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – Near ROCLINCOURT
The Regiment moved to the Transport Bivouac, there to equip and move direct to the assembly trenches after dark.
 
1917 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – OUTPOSTS F11b18 – TOMBOIS F18a80 95
OUTPOST LINE
At 3.55am 59th DIVN on Right attacked railway & Quarry in L5d took COLOGNE FARM as 2nd objective.
48th DIVN artillery cooperated by simulating attack on MARKOFF FARM.
Result – Both objectives reached but counter attack drove us out of COLOGNE FARM.
Quiet day.
Between 8pm & 9pm enemy appeared  sending up many rockets mostly Red & putting down barrage on Sunken Road (F11d) & valley at SART FARM (F11c).
Work during night-joining up section trenches & making new cruciform posts.
A Coy relieved D Coy in line.
Ration Strength 21 Officers 589 OR.
 
1918 - 5th Bn Oxf & Bucks LI reduced to cadre.
 
1943 – 7th Oxf & Bucks LI arrived in TUNISIA
 
1945 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – North West Europe
Halted in Guyhum.
 
1945 - 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI - NWE Ebsdorf
Weather has broken. 
Training continues. 
Warning received that Recce parties will be sent to area of LUNEBERG tomorrow.