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6th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
6th (Service) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was raised at Oxford in September 1914 as part of Kitchener's Second New Army and joined 60th Brigade, 20th (Light) Division. After initial training the in the Oxford area with little equipment, they moved to Deepcut In February 1915 they moved to Godalming and then to Salisbury Plain in April for final training and proceeded to France on the 22nd of July, landing at Bologne and the division concentrating in the Saint-Omer area. They moved to the Fleurbaix area for trench familiarisation. In 1916 they were in action at the The Battle of Mount Sorrel, in which the Division, along with the Canadians, recaptured the heights. They were in action on the Somme in The Battle of Delville Wood, The Battle of Guillemont, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval and The Battle of Le Transloy. In 1917 they were in action during The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The Battle of Langemarck, The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, The Battle of Polygon Wood and The Cambrai Operations. In early 1918 the army was reorganised and on the 15th of February th e6th Ox & Bucks were disbanded in France, with troops transferring to the 2/4th and 5th Ox & Bucks and the 14th Entrenching Battalion.
Jul 1915 Training Instruction
Jul 1915 Billets
20th Jul 1915 On the Move 
22nd Jul 1915 On the Move
23rd Jul 1915 On the Move
26th Jul 1915 Orders Issued
7th September 1915 Relieved from Trench Duty
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
1st Jan 1917 Reliefs
4th Jan 1917 Relief
8th Jan 1917 Adjustment
22nd Jan 1917 Trench Raid
23rd Jan 1917 Orders Received
25th Jan 1917 Relief Completed
25th Jan 1917 Boundary
26th Jan 1917 Orders
27th Jan 1917 Attack Made
28th Jan 1917 Reliefs Complete
29th Jan 1917 In Reserve
1st Feb 1917 Training
2nd Feb 1917 Training
3rd Feb 1917 Training
4th Feb 1917 Training
5th Feb 1917 Training
6th Feb 1917 Training
7th Feb 1917 In Reserve
8th Feb 1917 Moves
9th Feb 1917 Reliefs
16th Feb 1917 Reliefs Complete
19th Feb 1917 Post Captured
24th Feb 1917 Bombardment
1st Mar 1917 Explosions and Fires
3rd Mar 1917 Reorganisation
4th Mar 1917 Reorganisation
5th Mar 1917 Instructions
7th Mar 1917 Reorganisation
8th Mar 1917 Outposts
10th Mar 1917 Orders
11th Mar 1917 Defence Scheme
12th Mar 1917 Reliefs
13th Mar 1917 Instructions
14th Mar 1917 Orders
15th Mar 1917 Evacuation
16th Mar 1917 Quiet
17th Mar 1917 Withdrawal
18th Mar 1917 Withdrawal
19th Mar 1917 Outposts
19th Mar 1917 Orders Received
20th Mar 1917 Orders
20th Mar 1917 Orders
21st Mar 1917 Line Occupied
22nd Mar 1917 Reliefs
23rd Mar 1917 Reliefs
24th Mar 1917 Patrol
25th Mar 1917 Reorganisation
26th Mar 1917 Ground Gained
27th Mar 1917 Advance
28th Mar 1917 Attack
29th Mar 1917 Advance
30th Mar 1917 Advance
31st Mar 1917 Orders
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Those known to have served with6th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the Great War 1914-1918. - Bennett William Edward. Sjt. (d.31st Aug 1916)
- Betts DCM. Richard Member. Sgt. (d.40 Myatt Rd, Offenham, Evesham)
- Brooks Ernest. Capt. (d.20th Sep 1917)
- Chant Frederick. Pte. (d.20th February 1917)
- Edwards Alfred. Pte. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
- Jaques Charles. Pte. (d.10th Jan 1916)
- Jones MM & Bar. Arthur Thomas. Sgt.
- King William George. Cpl.
- Marsh Victor Braine. 2Lt. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
- Neale Martin William Henry. Pte.
- Neale William Henry. Pte. (d.Chadwick End, Knowle)
- Vale Edward Charles. Pte. (d.9th Oct 1917)
- Whitehead Arthur Henry. Pte (d.22nd August 1917)
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Pte. William Henry Neale 6th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (d.Chadwick End, Knowle) My grandad, William Neale, took part in Battle of Langemark in 1917. He received a gunshot wound to his back on 20th of Sept 1917 and was sent back to Aston Hospital to recover where he met my nanna. He later went to Egypt with the 2/4th Battalion until 1919. He died in 1972
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Pte. Martin William Henry Neale 6th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry My granddad, Martin Neale, took part in the Battle of Langemark in September 1917. His Battalion was part of the 20th Division alongside 6th Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. He was wounded on the 20th of September 1917.
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Sjt. William Edward Bennett 6th Btn. Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (d.31st Aug 1916) William Bennett was my great Uncle. He is buried in Delville Wood Cemetery at Longueval. He was aged 22 when he died.
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Pte. Charles Jaques 6th Btn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (d.10th Jan 1916) Charlie Jaques was Thomas and Ellen's youngest son.
He died of war wounds after saving a fellow soldier by carrying him from the battlefield.
He was hit by shrapnel and died from his wounds several days later on 10th of January 1916, aged 23. He is remembered on the Riversley Park Memorial in Nuneaton.
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2Lt. Victor Braine "Josser" Marsh 6th Btn. Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (d.3rd Sep 1916) Victor Marsh was killed in action in Guillemont, France.
He is buried in the Carnoy Military Cemetery.
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Pte. Alfred Edwards 6th (Service) Btn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (d.3rd Sep 1916) Alfred Edwards was a family friend to my gran and mother. He was born on the 25th February 1894 at 100 Much Park Street, Coventry. He was a coremaker at the Daimler foundry. He enlisted in September 1914 at Nuneaton and was killed on the 3rd September 1916 attacking Guillemont Farm. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme, France.
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Pte. Edward Charles Vale Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry (d.9th Oct 1917) Edward Vale was born in 1890 at Ely, Cambridgeshire, son of William and Ellen Vale.
He previously served with 2nd Royal Fusiliers and 2nd and 6th Battalions Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry before transferring to the 1/4th Battalion.
His name appears on the War Office Daily Casualty List (Wounded), 24th September 1917, Edward died at Knightshayes V.A.D. Hospital, near Tiverton, Devon, of wounds received in France, 9th of October 1917.
Buried in Chevithorne (St Thomas) Churchyard, Devon, he is remembered on the Stretham, Cambs War Memorial.
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Sgt. Richard Member "John" Betts DCM. 6th Btn. Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry (d.40 Myatt Rd, Offenham, Evesham) Richard Betts was my great granddad. He took part in the Battle of Guillemont where he won the DCM for galantry charging down an enemy machine gun post and was shot in both arms during the act.
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Sgt. Arthur Thomas "Jo" Jones MM & Bar. 6th Btn. Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry Born in Oxen 1896, my Father, Arthur Jones was badly wounded in the last period of 1917 possibly winning the bar for his MM (gazetted 9/12/1916)& 12/11/1917) and was hospitalized. He was given a silver shoulder blade, and once fit enough, returned to light duties as a prisoner of war guard.
We know at the end of the war (or sooner) he joined the Labour Corps as a Sergeant with the Army number 443711. He ended his service as a Quarter Master Sergeant in 1921.
We are trying to find out more details of which hospital, where and with what type of wounds? where he went next, When he joined the Corps and where did he serve, plus the date of de-mob.
To end the story he re-enlisted in the RAF in 1922 as a Sergeant 351512 and served through-out the Second World War & was awarded the MBE in 1942, retiring in 1951 as a Wing Commander.
He died on 12th of July 1972
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Cpl. William George King 6th Btn. Ox & Bucks Light Infantry My Dad, William King, joined up in Wolverton on 14 November 1914, aged almost 21. He first went to France in April 1915 as, having previously been in Wolverton TA, he was classed as an experienced soldier. I believe he was involved in the battle of Festubert south of Vimy Ridge in the Bethune area. I am currently trying to find out where else he was whilst in Ox & Bucks Light Infantry. He left them in 1917 after being recommended for a commission. He did his officer's training at Bristol University.
He was commissioned in April 1918 & joined the Rifle Brigade. A war diary entry for September 1918 shows he was among a group of 2nd Lieutenants who joined the regiment at a village in Northern France called Frevillers. The diarist described this village as "quite the nicest billet we have been in for many a long time, we have organised a sports day for the local children who run for pennies we throw to them". I, my husband and son have been privileged to have walked along the road running through this village where my father walked in September 1918 when he was just 24 years old.
He was injured some weeks later and demobbed in 1919 from Chiseldon in Wiltshire, only a few miles from where he would eventually spend the rest of his life.
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