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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Green_Jackets Royal Green Jackets] Wikipedia<br> | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Green_Jackets Royal Green Jackets] Wikipedia<br> | ||
[http://web.archive.org/web/20080112115438/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/052-757.htm 52nd (the Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221222420/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/052-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site.<br> | [http://web.archive.org/web/20080112115438/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/052-757.htm 52nd (the Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221222420/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/052-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site.<br> | ||
[http://web.archive.org/web/20080106070508/http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/043OBLI.htm The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20080109081127/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/043-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221222420/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/052-1.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site. | [http://web.archive.org/web/20080106070508/http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/043OBLI.htm The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20080109081127/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/043-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221222420/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/052-1.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.<br> | ||
This link from [http://www.1914-1918.net/oxbucks.htm 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. | |||
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Revision as of 05:35, 5 July 2011
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
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
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.
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.