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...
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...
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