The original battlefield cross of Lionel Crouch is one of 18 remaining in the county, the other 17 all being exhibited in churches (of which one is for an unknown soldier). Lionel Crouch was educated at Marlborough College and qualified as a solicitor in 1909, being...
In 1794 two six pounder artillery pieces were presented to the Royal Bucks King’s Own Militia by application of surplus funds raised in the county for the establishment of the Bucks Yeomanry. These were added to the militia’s two existing artillery pieces. In 1820 the...
Dudman, a well-known miniature portraitist, who died in 1803, would have been commissioned presumably to undertake the work by the unknown officer himself. The regiment had been granted the title of Royal Bucks King’s Own in September 1794 for its services whilst...
It was not unusual for yeomanry regiments to adopt official patterns of uniform and equipment either sometime after they were introduced or, indeed not at all. Having been known as the 2nd or Hussar Regiment of Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry between 1821 and 1845, the Royal...
On 14 May 1940 the band instruments of the 1st Bucks Battalion were left at Wahagnies, where the battalion had been billeted, when the battalion moved into Belgium. Thirteen of the instruments were hidden by the elderly French landlady of Corporal Stan Fowler from...
A copy of the plan for the static defence of High Wycombe is part of a large amount of Home Guard documentary material in the papers of 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Searby (1908-90) of No 9 Platoon, ‘C’ Company of the 7th Battalion Bucks Home Guard recently acquired by the...
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