Bucks Military Museum Trust
Old Gaol, Market Hill, Buckingham
From 12 September 2016
An exhibition on the role of the 2/1st Bucks Battalion at Fromelles from 18-19 July – a diversionary operation to support the Somme offensive – and of the 1/1st Bucks Battalion at Pozieres on the Somme from 21-23 July 1916. If 1 July 1916 is seen as a catastrophic day for so many units from the North and Midlands then the period between 18 and 23 July is the Buckinghamshire equivalent. A total of 322 men from the two battalions became casualties in these six days, of whom 203 were killed.
On each occasion, the Bucks were next to the Australians, whose fate has become far better known. This exhibition restores the balance in recounting the story of these two controversial actions.