52nd Regiment of Foot

Also known as The Oxfordshire Light Infantry

Chronology

• 1755 raised as 54th Regiment of Foot
• 1757 renumbered as the 52nd Regiment of Foot
• 1781 became the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot
• 1803 became the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Light Infantry
• 1881 amalgamated with the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot to become the regiment later known as the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
• 1908 became the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
• 1958 re-titled as the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd)
• 1966 amalgamated with the two other regiments of the Green Jackets Brigade to become the 1st Battalion Royal Green Jackets
• 1992 1st Battalion disbanded

Regimental Journal

• The Oxfordshire Light Infantry Chronicle , 1895(-1908). An annual record of the First and Second Battalions, formerly the 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry. Volumes 4-17 are available at the British Library
• The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Chronicle from Volume 18 is also available at the British Library and a broken range of editions is available at the National Army Museum

Histories

• The 52nd Light Infantry Fort William, Calcutta, 1929 is available at the National Army Museum

External Links

Historical Books Online

• Historical Record of the Fifty - Second Regiment (Oxfordshire Light Infantry) from the year 1755 to the year 1858 by W S Moorsom 1860 Google Books. Page 25 details the circumstances of the service in Madras in 1793 including the loss of life when the ship blew up
• Reminiscences of school and army life, 1839 to 1859 by John Arthur Bayley 1875 Archive.org. The author went to India in 1852.
• An unrecorded chapter of the Indian mutiny: being the personal reminiscences of Reginald G. Wilberforce, late 52nd Light Infantry, compiled from a diary and letters written on the spot 1894 Archive.org

Other

• 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
  
• Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Wikipedia
  
• Royal Green Jackets Wikipedia
  
• 52nd (the Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site.
  
• The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
  
• The Museum for the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust covers the 43rd and 52nd Regiments. The collection is now owned by the Royal Green Jackets Museum Trust.
  
• The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum covers the 43rd, 52nd and 60th Regiments,and the Rifle Brigade.
  
• This link from www.1914-1918.net advises that the 1st (Garrison) Battalion was formed in Portland in September 1915, and moved to India in February 1916, where it then remained.
  
• There was a company called the No. 1 Reserve Battalion which appears to have been stationed in India from June 1916 to 1918 at Bangalore.
• British era cemeteries in the Khyber Pass, including that at Landi Kotal jang.com.pk March 2008. "A good number of them [graves] belong to the soldiers of 2nd battalion of the Oxford Light Infantry (O.L.I.)" and it includes reference to the Tirah Campaign