Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light InfantryThe Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was part of Sir John Moore’s Light Division, delivered the final blow to Napoleon’s Guards at Waterloo. It helped found the Metropolitan Police, and in the ensuing decades battalions served in most parts of the Empire, throughout World War One, at Dunkirk and as glider-borne troops in World War Two, subsequently in Palestine, Malaya and Cyprus. 2nd Battalion (52nd) Palestine 1945 –…
Conflict and County Soldiers of OxfordshireThis collection holds all of the objects and archival material that has been collected by the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum Trust itself. It is mainly comprised of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry pieces.
Oxfordshire YeomanryThe Oxfordshire Yeomanry history spans the development of volunteer Yeomanry units in response to external threat, their use (or misuse) internally, then later the highest standards which could be achieved by a volunteer body over the duration of the First War, to eye witness accounts of the relief of Belsen. Imperial YeomanryAnglo-Boer War 1899 – 1902
Our Collections Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum looks after three key military history collections for the region. These archives and objects are the property of three bodies: the Trustees of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, the Trustees of the Oxfordshire Yeomanry and Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust. SOFO Museum holds a collection of over 3,500 objects and 7,500 archive items from two county regiments, the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars (QOOH) and…
