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created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
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The
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, (RGJ Regimental
site) |
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The
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light
Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young) |
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The
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, by Kent Egerton. |
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The
Royal Green Jackets and Former Regiments: a Photographic History,
by Bert Henshaw |
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The
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, by Chris Baker
(The British Army in the Great War). |
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The
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, by Brad Chappell
(The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) |
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RHQ and
Depot: |
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RHQ:  |
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43rd Regimental
District at Oxford [1881-1905] |
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J Group,
at Farnborough [1946-1948] |
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Light
Infantry Brigade, at Strensall [1948-1958] |
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Green
Jackets Brigade, at Winchester [1958-1966] |
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Regulars: |
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1st
Battalion [1881-1966] |
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2nd
Battalion [1881-1948] |
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Militia
and Special Reserve: |
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3rd
Battalion (Royal Bucks King's Own Regiment of Militia)
[1881-1908] |
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3rd
Battalion [1908-1953] |
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4th
Battalion (Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia) [1881-1908] |
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Territorials
and Volunteers: |
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1st
(Oxford University) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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2nd
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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[3rd VB] 1st
Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps [1881-1908] |
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4th
(Eton College) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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The
Buckinghamshire Battalion [1881-1947] |
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4th
Battalion [1908-1958] |
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The
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1958-1966] |
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Hostilities-Only
Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
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2/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion [1914-1918]
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1st (Reserve) Buckinghamshire Battalion
[1915-1916] |
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2nd Buckinghamshire Battalion [1939-1947]
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2/4th Battalion [1914-1920]
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4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
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5th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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5th Battalion [1939-1947]
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6th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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6th Battalion [1940-1945]
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7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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7th Battalion [1940-1945]
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8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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9th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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10th Battalion [1917-1917]
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11th Garrison Battalion [1918-1919]
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50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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70th (Young Soldier) Battalion [1940-1943]
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1st Garrison Battalion [1915-1920]
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2nd Garrison Battalion [1916-1918]
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[combined
battle honours of 43rd Regiment and
52nd Regiment, plus:]
Quebec
17591,
Martinique 17622,
Havannah2 Mysore4,
Martinique 17942,
Pyrenees3,
South Africa
1851-2-31,
Relief
of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1900-02
The Great War [17 battalions]: Mons,
Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Ypres
1914 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Hooge 1915, Loos, Mount Sorrel,
Somme 1916 '18, Albert
1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette,
Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Bapaume 1917 '18,
Arras 1917, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Menin Road, Polygon
Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai
1917 '18, St. Quentin,
Rosières, Avre, Lys, Hazebrouck, Béthune, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Canal du Nord, Selle, Valenciennes, France and Flanders 1914-18,
Piave,
Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Doiran
1917 '18, Macedonia
1915-18, Kut al
Amara 1915, Ctesiphon,
Defence of Kut al Amara,
Tigris 1916, Khan Baghdadi, Mesopotamia 1914-18 Archangel
1919
The Second World War: Defence
of Escaut, Cassel, Ypres-Comines Canal,
Normandy
Landing, Pegasus
Bridge, Caen, Esquay, Lower Mass, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald,
Rhine, Ibbenburen,
North-West Europe 1940
'44-45, Enfidaville,
North Africa 1943, Salerno,
Santa Lucia5,
Salerno Hills, Teano, Monte
Camino, Garigliano Crossing, Damiano, Anzio,
Coriano, Gemmano Ridge, Italy 1943-45,
Arakan Beaches, Tamandu, Burma 1943-45
1. awarded
1882 for service of 43rd Regiment.
2. awarded 1909 for service of 43rd
Regiment.
3. awarded 1910 for services of 43rd
Regiment and 52nd Regiment.
4. awarded 1889 for service of 52nd
Regiment.
5. awarded 1958 as "St. Lucia" and amended
1974.
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
1881-1953:
scarlet; facings: white
1953-1966: dark green tunic, blue trousers; facings:
white; piping: white
headdress:
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Colonel [1881-1958]: |
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1881 |
[1st Bn:]
Gen. Hon. Sir Augustus Almeric Spencer, GCB
[also 96th Foot; C-in-C bombay 1869-74] |
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1881 |
[2nd Bn:]
Gen. John Leslie Dennis, CB [also 51st Foot] |
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1893.08.29 |
Lt-Gen. Frederick Green-Wilkinson, CB
[also Q R West Surrey Regt] |
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1913.09.14 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Fiennes Middleton Colvile, KCB |
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1917.03.30 |
Maj-Gen. Thomas Manbourg Bailie |
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1918.04.06 |
Maj-Gen. Sir John Hanbury-Williams, GCVO,
KCB, CMG |
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1946.10.19 |
Gen. Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget, GCB,
DSO, MC [also Col. Cmdt. Recce
Corps, Intelligence Corps; C-in-C
21st Army Group,
C-in-C Middle
East; Gov. R Hospital 1949-55] |
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1955.09.15 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Thomas John Willoughby Winterton,
KCB, KCMG, CBE, CStJ |
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Colonel Commandant [1958]: |
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1958.04.01 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Thomas John Willoughby Winterton,
KCB, KCMG, CBE, CStJ |
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Colonel Commandant, 2nd
Green Jackets [1958-1966]: |
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1958.11 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Thomas John Willoughby Winterton,
KCB, KCMG, CBE, CStJ |
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1960.12.31 |
Gen. Sir Gerald William Lathbury, GCB, DSO,
MBE, KStJ, ADC
[to 1966; also Col. Cmdt. Para
Regt; Col. West
India Regt, Jamaica
Regt; Gov. & C-in-C Gibraltar 1965-69] |
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1965.09.01 |
Gen. Sir Herbert John Mogg, GCB, CBE, DSO
[continued 1966 as Col. Cmdt. 1st Bn RGJ;
also Col. AAC; Hon. Col. 10
Para; AG 1970-73] |
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- Succession
of Colonels, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light
Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
- Commanding
Officers, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light
Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
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Victoria
Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). |
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VCs
in the Royal Green Jackets Museum, by Iain Stewart. |
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Roll
of Officers, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light
Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young) |
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Roll
of Honour, Boer War, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light
Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young) |
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CANLOAN
Roster, Second World War, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light
Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young) |
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Motto: |
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Nicknames: |
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Anniversaries: |
Waterloo
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
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Musicians: |
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- Band History,
by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
- Bandmasters,
by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
- Band History
(RGJ Band & Bugles Association)
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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by A. Melville-Brown 
