On this day 4th April
1815 - 1st Bn. 52nd halted in Brussels on the way to Grammont,
1915 - 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - GORRE
In Brigade Reserve.
Companies employed in Route Marching, Musketry, training Bomb throwers, negotiating obstacles across country etc.
16th Reinforcement of 30 arrived.
Lieutenant Humphry returned from Course of Trench Mortar Gun Instruction.
1915 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – TERGENHEM
Bn moved by road via CAESTRE – FLETRE – METEREN
To billets in farms about cross roads 1 1/2 mile S.S.E of METEREN
Strength 31 officers 997 other ranks
1918 –Battle of the Avre - 5th Oxf & Bucks LI engaged.
1945 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – North West Europe
After a, pause at Vreden the 3rd and 4th April were spent in clearing an area north of Gronau (5102) and Ochtrup (6201). No enemy were encountered.
1945- 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI - NWE Stockhausen
0850 - Left HASBERGEN in TCV's the Ulsters being in the lead today.
Through OSEDE & BISSENDORF & BLASHEIM to STOCKHAUSEN.
1815 - 1st Bn. 52nd halted in Brussels on the way to Grammont,
1915 - 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI - GORRE
In Brigade Reserve.
Companies employed in Route Marching, Musketry, training Bomb throwers, negotiating obstacles across country etc.
16th Reinforcement of 30 arrived.
Lieutenant Humphry returned from Course of Trench Mortar Gun Instruction.
1915 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – TERGENHEM
Bn moved by road via CAESTRE – FLETRE – METEREN
To billets in farms about cross roads 1 1/2 mile S.S.E of METEREN
Strength 31 officers 997 other ranks
1918 –Battle of the Avre - 5th Oxf & Bucks LI engaged.
1945 – 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – North West Europe
After a, pause at Vreden the 3rd and 4th April were spent in clearing an area north of Gronau (5102) and Ochtrup (6201). No enemy were encountered.
1945- 2nd (Airborne) Bn, Oxf & Bucks LI - NWE Stockhausen
0850 - Left HASBERGEN in TCV's the Ulsters being in the lead today.
Through OSEDE & BISSENDORF & BLASHEIM to STOCKHAUSEN.
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