• Thumbnail for Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
    The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was a light infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until 1958, serving in the...
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    (Light Infantry) to form the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry in 1881. The regiment went on to become the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire...
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    The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the Cowley area of Oxford in southern England. Designed...
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  • Den Brotheridge (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
    British Army officer who served with the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd) during the Second World War. He is often...
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  • Thumbnail for 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot
    the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Throughout the period of the 52nd's existence, the British Army comprised both infantry and cavalry...
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    John Howard (British Army officer) (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
    commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Ox & Bucks) on 9 November 1940. He rose to captain...
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  • Henry van Straubenzee (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
    Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd). He was also an English cricketer, playing for Sandhurst and the Army up to the...
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    The Longest Day (film) (category American black-and-white films)
    Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. In the film, three Free French Special Air Service paratroopers jump into France before British and American...
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  • Cornwall's Light Infantry The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry The King's Shropshire Light Infantry The...
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    Horsa Bridge (category Buildings and structures in Calvados (department))
    during Operation Tonga by gliderborne troops of the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd) in a coup de main operation in the opening...
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    Pegasus Bridge (category Buildings and structures in Calvados (department))
    of members of D Company, 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, a glider-borne force who were part of the 6th Airlanding...
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  • Royal Green Jackets (category British light infantry)
    Light Infantry (TA) and the Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. During the 1970s, 1980s and onwards up until the...
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  • 6th Beach Group (category Military units and formations of the British Army in World War II)
    area. The 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion (1st Bucks) was a Territorial Army battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and provided the...
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  • Regiment, the 4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and the Buckinghamshire Battalion, Ox and Bucks and the 4th Battalion, (Princess...
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  • John Tillett (British Army officer) (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
    into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Ox and Bucks) on 24 August 1940, eleven months after the Second World War began, and was given...
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    Langtree, Lewknor, Pyrton, Ploughley, Thame and Wootton. The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, the main army unit in the area, was based...
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  • the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry became the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) on 7 November 1958. The 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd)...
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    Following the Haldane Reforms the Oxfordshire Light Infantry became the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1908. Many recruits enlisted at...
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    'D' Company, 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Major John Howard) and second in command Captain Brian Priday,...
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    King's Royal Rifle Corps (category British light infantry)
    the regiment joined the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and the Rifle Brigade in the Green Jackets Brigade and in 1966 the three regiments...
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  • David Wood (British Army officer) (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
    troops of the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd), on D Day, 6 June 1944, tasked with capturing Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge before...
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  • Green Jackets Brigade (category British light infantry)
    July 1957, the infantry of the line was reorganised, and on 1 April 1958, the 1st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was transferred...
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    6th Airborne Division (United Kingdom) (category Military units and formations established in 1943)
    Airlanding Brigade (from 6 May 1943) 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1st Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles 12th Battalion, Devonshire...
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  • Peter Gerahty (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
    into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in September 1941 and was posted to the 5th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served...
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  • Tod Sweeney (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
    the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd), on D-Day, 6 June 1944, tasked to seize Horsa Bridge and Pegasus Bridge before...
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    approximately 35 years old, and a Bugler in the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (later the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry), British Army during...
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  • Rupert Brett (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
    British Army officer. Brett was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 5 October 1910. He became commanding officer of the...
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    The Maratha Light Infantry is a light infantry regiment of the Indian Army. It traces its lineage to the Bombay Sepoys, raised in 1768, making it the most...
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    Digby Tatham-Warter (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
    was attached to the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in India from 13 March 1937, and subsequently transferred to that regiment...
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  • Dennis Fox (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
    land at Horsa Bridge in the gliderborne 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd) coup de main operation, during the opening...
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