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...
Although the statuette is dated as being presented to the regiment in 1916, it is actually hallmarked 1918. It is particularly interesting given Warren Swire’s uneasy relationship with his commanding officer, Cecil Grenfell, and his leaving the Royal Bucks Hussars...
In August 1914 Frederick Butler was a 36 year old stud groom from Linslade employed on the Rothschild Estate at Ascott, Wing. Born in London in April 1878, he was just 5’2¼” tall with a slight deformity to one of the toes on his right foot. The French Rothschilds had...
Traditionally, the drum is associated with Sergeant Major William Berry, the landlord of the Griffin Inn at Amersham. Infantry volunteers had originally been formed in Bucks in response to the Defence of the Realm Act in April 1798, which permitted such offers...
Designed by Edward Avern, the silver medal was commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant, Richard, 2nd Marquess of Buckingham, soon to become the 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. It was issued to all those members of the 1st (Southern) and 2nd (Mid Bucks) Regiments of...
The Royal Life Saving Society was founded in 1891 to teach skills in life saving in water following the recognition that preventable deaths from drowning in England and Wales had reached some 2,000 a year. The medallion was awarded after an individual attended...
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