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1st Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry  
 
DatesLocationsHigher FormationRemarks
1944.06NW Europe 71 Infantry Brigade 
1945Germany13 Infantry Brigade 
1946.08Trieste: Rossetti Barracks13 Infantry Brigade 
1947.01.31Pola13 Infantry Brigade 
1947.04Germany:13 Infantry Brigade
Dec 47: Germany4 Armoured Brigade
Jul 48: Germany: Border Barracks, Gottingen31 Lorried Infantry Brigade
 5 Aug 48: amalgamated on the Rhine with 2nd Battalion without change of title  
1949.05England: UK Depot Bn  
1949.08?Eritrea:??  
1951Cyprus2 Infantry Brigade 
1951.10Egypt: Canal Zone 2 Infantry Brigade 
1953England:  
1953.07Germany: Belfast Barracks, Osnabrück61 Lorried Infantry Brigade
 1956: Belfast Barracks, Osnabrück21 Indep Infantry Brigade Group
1956.07England:  
1956.08Cyprus: Nicosia (moved into a newly made camp)50 Infantry Brigade
 Dec 56: Cyprus: Gibraltar Camp, Limassol  
1958.11?England: Tidworth?
7 Nov 58: Renamed 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) 

 

2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 

 

DatesLocationsHigher FormationRemarks
1944.06NW Europe 6 Airborne Division 
1945England:6 Air-Landing Brigade
 May - Aug 45: Norway6 Air-Landing Brigade 
1945.10Palestine:6 Air-Landing Brigade
 1946: Palestine 31 Infantry Brigade 
1947.03UK: 
5 Aug 45: amalgamated on the Rhine with 1st Battalion
 
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