On this day 31st August
1782 – Orders issued connecting the 52nd with the county of Oxfordshire and the 43rd with Monmouthshire.
1813 - Storming of San Sebastian.
1914 –2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI- Retreat from Mons
1915 –2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI -BETHUNE.
In Brigade Reserve.
Usual drills and training carried out.
1915 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – HEBUTERNE
Shelling Intermittent all day.
11/ R WARWICKS attached platoons change over.
1944 – 2nd (AB) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – Normandy:-
Orders for the return to England and Bulford were received and on the next day we set off— marching to start with, as the troop-carrying transport failed to materialize. The night of the 1st September was spent at a transit camp at Ryes and on the following day we embarked from the Mulberry harbour for home with thoughts of leave in our minds.
During the advance to the River Seine the Regiment suffered the following casualties:
Killed: 1 officer and 5 soldiers. Wounded: 42 soldiers.
1782 – Orders issued connecting the 52nd with the county of Oxfordshire and the 43rd with Monmouthshire.
1813 - Storming of San Sebastian.
1914 –2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI- Retreat from Mons
1915 –2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI -BETHUNE.
In Brigade Reserve.
Usual drills and training carried out.
1915 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – HEBUTERNE
Shelling Intermittent all day.
11/ R WARWICKS attached platoons change over.
1944 – 2nd (AB) Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – Normandy:-
Orders for the return to England and Bulford were received and on the next day we set off— marching to start with, as the troop-carrying transport failed to materialize. The night of the 1st September was spent at a transit camp at Ryes and on the following day we embarked from the Mulberry harbour for home with thoughts of leave in our minds.
During the advance to the River Seine the Regiment suffered the following casualties:
Killed: 1 officer and 5 soldiers. Wounded: 42 soldiers.
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