The medal group of WO II Raymond Bateman includes a 1937 Coronation Medal. Born in Stoke Mandeville in April 1889 but now living in Albert Street in Aylesbury, Raymond Joseph Bateman was a pre-1914 Territorial who took the Imperial Service Obligation on 22 August 1914...
The silver twin-handled cup by William Hunter of London (28 cm, high), which includes the arms of Buckinghamshire and Middlesex, bears the inscription, ‘Presented to Lt. Col. His Grace The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos KG and the Officers of the Royal Bucks Yeomanry...
Originally seven separate corps formed in 1859-60, the Bucks rifle volunteers were brought together as The 1st Bucks Administrative Battalion in July 1862. Corps retained control of their own arms, stores and financial affairs and conducted correspondence through an...
The raising of the 2/1st Royal Bucks Hussars at Buckingham was authorised on 14 September 1914 as part of the initial expansion of the Territorial Force under the command of the Hon. William Lawson, later 3rd Lord Burnham, who had commanded the 38th (Royal Bucks...
Made by Hobson & Sons of London, the tunic is dated 23 June 1906 but it is of the pattern worn between 1875 and 1908. The individual rifle corps originally formed in the county in 1859 and 1860 had become a so-called administrative battalion in which the corps...
Recently acquired, the leather bound muster book (16cm x 10cm) was compiled by Thomas Worley, a solicitor, who was the quartermaster of the troop. It records the names of all those who joined between November 1807 and May 1815, their attendance at drills and annual...
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