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1862 1st Administrative Battalion, Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteers
formed with HQ at Aylesbury to administer existing companies:
1st Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Great Marlow, raised Dec. 1859
2nd Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Wycombe, raised 1860; disbanded 1861; re-formed 1861 at High Wycombe; disbanded 1872
3rd Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Buckingham, raised 1860
4th Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Aylesbury, raised 1860
5th Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Slough, raised 1860
6th Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at North Pagnell, raised 1860; disbanded 1864
7th Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Winslow; absorbed 1863 by 3rd RVC
8th Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Eton College, raised 1860; regimented Dec. 1869; separated 1878 as Eton College Cadet Corps

187u company formed at Wolverton
1878 1st Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
HQ at Great Marlow
1881.07.01 volunteer battalion of The Oxfordshire Light Infantry
1882 eighth company formed
1891.12 1st Buckinghamshire Volunteer Rifle Corps
serving as 3rd VB, The Oxfordshire Light Infantry
1900 ninth company formed
1908.04.01 Buckinghamshire Battalion, The Oxfordshire Light Infantry
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Aylesbury
1908.10.16 Buckinghamshire Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
1919.05.02 disembodied
1920.02.07 reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Aylesbury
1939.03.31 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion
1946.08.17 suspended animation
1947.01.01 645 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (Bucks) (T.A.)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Slough, concurrently amalgamated with 2nd Battalion and converted to artillery
1955.03.10 R (Buckinghamshire) Battery, 431 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA
S (Buckinghamshire) Battery,
[amalgamated with 480 (Berkshire) HAA Regt RA and 536 (M) LAA/SL Regt (Surrey) RA]
1961.05.01 S (Buckinghamshire Rifles) Battery, 299th (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, and Berkshire) Field Regiment, RA
[reduced to one battery, and amalgamated with 299th (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, Berkshire Yeomanry, and Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) Field Regiment, RA]
1967.04.01 Q Battery (The Buckinghamshire Rifles), The Buckinghamshire Regiment, RA (Territorials)
reorganised in TAVR III at Bletchley
1969.01.01 D Company, 4th (V) Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets
at Aylesbury, formed from its P Bty as The Buckinghamshire Regt RA reduced to cadre
1986.12.01 D Company
at Aylesbury
} 5th (V) Battalion,
The Royal Green Jackets
HQ at Oxford
E Company at Milton Keynes, raised from
16 Pln D Coy and Bletchley det 4th Bn

1995.04.01 D Coy disbanded
1999.07.01 E (Royal Green Jackets) Company, The Royal Rifle Volunteers
at Milton Keynes (A Coy amalgamated with E Coy, 5 RGJ to form 60 Squadron, 72nd Signal Regiment, R Sigs, and affiliated in 2005 as Royal Bucks Hussars)

 


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