Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light
Infantry - OBLI Battle Honours
The Oxfordshire Light Infantry (1881) was formed from two established regiments in 1881:
- 1st Battalion, redesignation of 43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
- 2nd Battalion, redesignation of 52nd (Oxfordshire Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
The Oxfordshire Light Infantry was then redesignated the The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1908.
It is the custom of the British Military to carry Battle Honours of the historical regiments forward into their new designations.
The Green Jackets now carry the Honours listed below, as the OBLI was formed into their ranks in 1958.
The Great War:
- Mons
- Retreat from Mons
- Marne 1914
- Aisne 1914
- Ypres 1914 through 1917
- Langemarck 1914 through 1917
- Gheluvelt
- Nonne Bosschen
- Aubers
- Festubert 1915
- Hooge 1915
- Loos
- Mount Sorrel
- Somme 1916 & 1918
- Albert 1916 & 1918
- Bazentin
- Delville Wood
- Pozières
- Guillemont
- Flers-Courcelette
- Morval
- Le Transloy
- Ancre Heights
- Ancre 1916
- Bapaume 1917 & 1918
- Arras 1917
- Vimy 1917
- Scarpe 1917
- Arleux
- Menin Road
- Polygon Wood
- Broodseinde
- Poelcappelle
- Passchendaele
- Cambrai 1917 '18
- St. Quentin
- Rosières
- Avre
- Lys
- Hazebrouck
- Béthune
- Hindenburg Line
- Havrincourt
- Canal du Nord
- Selle
- Valenciennes
- France and Flanders 1914-18
- Piave
- Vittorio Veneto
- Italy 1917-18
- Doiran 1917 & 1918
- Macedonia 1915-18
- Kut al Amara 1915
- Ctesiphon
- Defence of Kut al Amara
- Tigris 1916
- Khan Baghdadi
- Mesopotamia 1914-18
- Archangel 1919
The Second World War:
- Defence of Escaut (retreat to Dunkirk)
- Cassel (retreat to Dunkirk)
- Ypres-Comines Canal (retreat to Dunkirk)
These were the 43rd adn the 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion (TA: Territorial Army) that fought to Dunkirk, and was evacuated with heavy losses.
The 4th Oxf & Bucks Battalion was not so lucky, being encircled and loss to the German forces.
- Normandy Landing (52nd Battalion)
- Pegasus Bridge (52nd Battalion)
- Caen (52nd Battalion)
- Esquay (43rd Battalion)
- Lower Mass (43rd Battalion)
- Ourthe (43rd Battalion)
- Rhineland (43rd Battalion)
- Reichswald (43rd Battalion)
- Rhine (52nd Battalion)
- Ibbenburen (43rd Battalion)
- North-West Europe 1940 '44-45 (52nd Battalion)
- Enfidaville (7th Battalion)
- North Africa 1943 (7th Battalion)
- Salerno (7th Battalion)
- St. Lucia (7th Battalion)
- Salerno Hills (7th Battalion)
- Teano (43rd Battalion)
- Monte Camino (7th Battalion)
- Garigliano Crossing (7th Battalion)
- Damiano (7th Battalion)
- Anzio (7th Battalion)
- Coriano (7th Battalion)
- Gemmano Ridge (7th Battalion)
- Italy 1943-45 (7th Battalion)
- Arakan Beaches (6th Battalion)
- Tamandu (6th Battalion)
- Burma 1943-45 (6th Battalion)
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