The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Chronicle 1955: An Annual Record of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Compiled and Edited by Brigadier-General C. G. Higgins, C.M.G., D.S.O., D.L. Volume LVII January to December 1955.

Published 1956 - The Alden Press (Oxford) Ltd. Hardcover.

 

Contents:

1. The Army List -p.1


2. Extracts from the 'London Gazette' 1955 -p.3


3. Regular Officers of the Regiment Extra-Regimentally Employed on December 31st, 1955 -p.6


4. Former Officers of the Regiment on the Active List December 31st, 1955 -p.7


5. General Sir Bernard Paget, G.C.B., D.S.O., M.C. -p.8


6. Records of the First Battallion -p.10


7. Summary of the First Battalion Diary 1955 -p.13


8. First Battalion Letter -p.21


9. First Battalion Records of Sport and Training 1955 -p.27


10. Records of Regimental Headquarters -p.44


11. Regimental Headquarters Letter -p.45


12. Records of the Fourth Battalion -p.48


13. Fourth Battalion Letter -p.52


14. The Laying-Up of the Old Colours of the Fourth Battalion (T.A.) -p.54


15. Regimental Dinner 1955 -p.55


16. 52nd Light Infantry Dinner 1955 -p.56


17. 52nd Light Infantry Luncheon 1955 -p.57


18. The Bicentenary Celebrations of the 52nd Light Infantry at Osnabruck -p.58


19. A Week-End at Osnabruck -p.76


20. Can We Win? -p.79


21. Random Reflections on Retirement -p.84


22. Life in the Rhineland -p.90


23. Mercer Tod Letters -p.96


24. Colonels of the Regiment -p.101


25. Lieut.-General Sir Robert Garrett -p.103


26. Gliding -p.106


27. An Outer Island -p.113


28. Cooks Tour - Germany and Switzerland -p.117


29.  Guests at the Castle -p.121


30. Old Comrades' Association -p.125


31. Marriage -p.126


32. Obituary -p.126


33. Index -p.129

Please Note: Original copies supplied, all in used but reasonable condition. Copy supplied may vary slightly from the one pictured in terms of wear and aging.