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Bugle and Sabre

"Bugle and Sabre" is an occasional publication which appears about once a year. It is published jointly by the Friends of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust, any profits being shared.

Most of the material is about aspects of the history of the two main regiments Cover of Bugle and Sabre vol 3in the Trust, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (also known as the Oxfordshire Yeomanry). There are also articles about the Oxford University Officers Training Corps, and several other subjects as described below. More are being planned for future editions about other stories of the people of the county and their part in the nation's conflicts.

Volume I includes:

Witney & The 5th Oxfordshire Rifle Volunteers; The Moulders of Witney Soldier and Publican; Lt Col Fred Clare OBLI; Cowley Barracks during WWI; A Mini Mutiny at Cowley Barracks; Belsen and the Oxford Yeomanry.

Volume II, articles on:

Sir Charles Rowan & The Metropolitan Police; A Tale of Two Guns; The Buckingham Rifle Volunteers 1859-1908; The Formation of the OTC; The Oxfordshire Hussars memorial at Rifle Wood; The Exploits of Lt Jack Shaw; The Bucks Battalion at Dunkirk; Cowley Barracks in the 1950s; Some Aerodromes Around Oxford; Slade Park Museum.

Volume III covers:

Reminiscences 1718-2007: Family, Home and Military College; Major the Hon Arthur George Charles Villiers (1883-1969); Arthur Collier; The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in Ireland (1919-23); The 52nd Light Infantry in Palestine; Notes on the Home Guard in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

Volume IV, Autumn 2010

Edition includes: Woman and Children First: the Loss of the HMS Birkenhead; Yeomanry Summer Camps; Military Badges; Captain Gerald Goddard Jackson; The Woodford Incident; A Forgotton Soldier: Private David Williams; Nothing is Impossible: Oxfordshire, The Nursery of the Glider Pilot Regiment; The Rhine Crossing (Operation Varsity); and The Old Lady Who Lived in a Horsa.

Volume V, Autumn 2011

Special Editions:

Churchill for the SOFO Exhibition at The Oxfordshire Museum:

The story of Winston Churchill's very active association with the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars from 1901 when he was gazetted to the regiment until his death in 1966 as Honorary Colonel.

Children and War: "Book of the exhibition" which was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, curated by Oxford author and historian, Julie Summers.

All editions are still available through Books section in the SOFO shop.