On this day 4th April
1815 - 1st Bn. 52nd - halted in Brussels on the way to Grammont,(Waterloo campaign)
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – FLORINGHEM near PERNES.
The weather improved considerably and makes a great amount of training possible. Particular attention was paid to the old Regimental Method of Barracking, waterproof sheet method, and the old equipment, string, pegs and sticks, the latter carried on the cookers, was completed 2 pegs per man carried in the haversack as heretofore this method was approved by the Major general and adopted by the Division.
1917 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – LONGAVESNES.
Bn in billets-
Coys resting & improving billets etc
Ration Strength 19 Officers 653 OR
1918 –5th Oxf & Bucks LI - engaged Battle of the Avre.
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,(Waterloo campaign)
1917 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – FLORINGHEM near PERNES.
The weather improved considerably and makes a great amount of training possible. Particular attention was paid to the old Regimental Method of Barracking, waterproof sheet method, and the old equipment, string, pegs and sticks, the latter carried on the cookers, was completed 2 pegs per man carried in the haversack as heretofore this method was approved by the Major general and adopted by the Division.
1917 – 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – LONGAVESNES.
Bn in billets-
Coys resting & improving billets etc
Ration Strength 19 Officers 653 OR
1918 –5th Oxf & Bucks LI - engaged Battle of the Avre.
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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