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OXFORDSHIRE SOLDIERS REMEMBERED

Soldiers missed off a previous memorial are to be included in its replacement.

On 23rd of May members and friends of the Regimental Association of the Oxfordshire Yeomanry, The Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars (QOOH) will dedicate a new plaque to commemorate 22 of their comrades who died in the assault on Rifle Wood near Amiens in France on 1st of April 1918.

Colonel Paul Wenlock, chairman of the Association, said, “Researchers have worked hard to ensure the plaque is now accurate. It replaces an original dedicated in 2004, at last correcting several errors and omissions.”

The regiment’s participation in the attack, which successfully took and held the wood, was unusual because the QOOH, a cavalry unit, were on this occasion on foot. The action helped stem the last deep German incursion into allied territory, a precursor to final Allied attacks that forced an end to the war.