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...
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...
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