Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Dates Locations Higher Formation/Remarks
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. 4th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry .
1947.01.01 Reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Oxford and concurrently amalgamated with duplicate 5th Bn 128 Infantry Brigade
. A Company at Henley .
. B Company at Witney .
. C Company at Banbury .
. D Company at Oxford .
1958 Redesignated The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [TA] .
1966.01.01 Transferred to the corps of The Royal Green Jackets without change of designation .
1967.04.01 Disbanded and concurrently reconstituted as two units: .
. A Company (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire), 4th (V) Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets in TAVR II at Oxford .
. The Oxfordshire Territorials in TAVR III with HQ at Oxford (with 129 Infantry Workshop REME and troop 266 Field Squadron RE also assisting in formation): .
. A (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) Company at Oxford, successor to Q Bty, 299 (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars and Berkshire) Field Regt RA .
. B (Oxfordshire Rifles) Company at Banbury, successor to The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry .
1969.01.01 TAVR III element reduced to cadre at Oxford, sponsored by 4th (V) Bn, The Royal Green Jackets .
1975.04.01 Cadre disbanded (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars perpetuated in 39 Signal Regt, Royal Signals) .
1986.12.01 5th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets formed as the de facto Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire battalion with HQ at Oxford by reorganisation of existing companies of 4th Battalion: .
1986.12.01 HQ Company at Oxford, formed by redesignation of A Coy, 4th Bn .
. A Company at High Wycombe, raised from 13 and 14 Pln D Coy 4th Bn .
1999.07.01 The Rifle Volunteers formed with HQ at Wyvern Barracks, Exeter, as the Wessex and South-West T.A. battalion, by amalgamation of 6th Bn, The Light Infantry (V), 4th (V) Bn, The Devonshire and Dorset Regt and part 2nd (V) Bn, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regt .
. A (Royal Green Jackets) Company, The Royal Rifle Volunteers at Oxford with Anti-Tank Pln at Booker, High Wycombe, amalgamation of HQ Coy and A Coy 5th Bn, The Royal Green Jackets, less some personnel to form 60 Squadron, 72nd Signal Regiment, R Sigs, and affiliated in 2005 as Royal Bucks Hussars) .
200? High Wycombe pln transferred to E Coy, RRV .
2007.02 Redesignated A Company, 7th Battalion, The Rifles at Oxford .
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