Sunday 28 February 2016

Ox & Bucks Light Infantry


Anyone with an interest in the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry could do worse than at least check out this website: http://www.lightbobs.com/. The site is a bit clunky and in need of a re-design, but there's some good information here.

A word of advice: make sure that after you've clicked on a link on the right-hand menu, you scroll down the page past the menu bar. The design of the site leads you to believe that there is no content (see below), but as I say, you need to scroll down to the end of the menu.


The site is regularly updated and its scope is large, covering the regiment in all its many guises: Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteers, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. There is a lot of useful detail on the regiment during the First and Second World War and the site owner, Steve Berridge, is to be congratulated for his labour of love. Well worth checking out.

The gratuitous cenotaph photograph was taken by me last week on a beautifully bright and sunny morning in Whitehall.

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Friday 12 February 2016

Section D, Army Reserve 1923



I spotted this tucked away in a man's service record in WO 363 recently and thought I'd post it here as a matter of interest. I'm not sure which newspaper this particular appeal was published in but it must have been quite a tempting inducement to many. I presume that this appeal for men to join Section D of the Army Reserve was also open to men who had enlisted for wartime service only during the Great War - as was the case with the man who filled in this particular form.


The image is Crown Copyright, courtesy of The National Archives.

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