The Hunter Memorial Challenge Shield was first presented for a rifle competition on Whit Monday 1906, it being won and awarded subsequently to J. L. S. Ewing at the Newport Pagnell Rifle Club’s annual meeting and prize giving at the town’s Masonic Hall in April...
Eton College formed its own Rifle Volunteer Corps in January 1860 and was reviewed by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in Windsor Home Park in November 1861, this the latter’s last public appearance before his death. The 8th Bucks (Eton College) RVC was only...
Framed with the Bucks Battalion badge and ‘Chelmsford 1914’, there is an additional paper label, ‘This biscuit was left behind at 164 Springfield Road in 1914’. Left when the 1/1st Bucks Battalion departed for embarkation to the Western Front, it was given to the...
The LDV armband was acquired by the Trust with material relating to both the 4th Bucks (Marlow) and 7th Bucks (High Wycombe) Home Guard Battalions. There are a number of possibilities as to the identification of the ‘H’. The Hughenden and Hazelmere platoons were both...
The banner reflects the adoption of a new regimental cap badge, designed by Regimental Sergeant Major (later Lieutenant Quartermaster) Charles W. Cole in 1905, and worn from 1906 onwards. Cole reputedly based the design with the motto, ‘Yeomen of Bucks Strike Home’,...
Fears of French invasion led to the government somewhat reluctantly bowing in May 1859 to the volunteer offers that began to pour in. Corps had to apply to the Lord Lieutenant for authorisation and also required a safe rifle range of at least 200 yards, a secure...
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