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While the 1st Battalion saw some action in Spain and Portugal in 1800–1801, the 2nd remained stationed in England. In 1803 the regiment's fittest officers and men were concentrated in the 1st battalion, for training as light infantry, and the 2nd battalion was transferred to the 96th Foot. [4] A new second battalion was raised in 1804.
The regiment was formed as a consequence of the 1881 Childers Reforms, a continuation of the Cardwell Reforms, by the amalgamation of the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry), forming the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry on 1 July 1881. [1]
52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1803 [20] 52nd (Oxfordshire Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot 1803–1821 [20] 1755 Raised as 54th Regiment of Foot 1755, renumbered 52nd in 1757 on disbandment of existing 50th and 51st Foot. [20] 1881: 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire Light Infantry: The Rifles: 53: 53rd Regiment of Foot (10th Marines ...
The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Museum was established at the barracks in 1925 [7] and during the Second World War the barracks were used as a base for the Home Guard. [8] The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry left the barracks in 1959 and, although the men's quarters were retained, the keep was subsequently ...
Includes soldiers and non-commissioned officers of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 43rd Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and the 52nd Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) which became the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry.
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot - Became Light Infantry in 1809, King's Own 1812 - 2 Battalions 1804-1814; 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot - Became Light Infantry 1803 - 2 Battalions 1799-1803 and 1804-1815; 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1803-1817; 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions ...
0–9. 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot; 63rd (Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery; 211 (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery