MORE names have come to light in a photograph we published 18 months ago.

The picture, left, showed members of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry parading across Magdalen Bridge in Oxford on July 11, 1953 (Memory Lane, July 29, 2013).

The soldiers were exercising for the first time the privileges conferred on their regiment when it was given the Freedom of Oxford five years earlier.

Memory Lane this week

The picture has since been ‘doing the rounds’ with old comrades, who have identified four more of the participants.

The NCOs in the colour party have been identified as Company Sarjeant (later Warrant Officer II) Ball and Sarjeants Kettle, Paris and Morgan.

After the picture appeared, a correspondent wrote in questioning why the rifles were at the trail and not the slope.

The comrades’ reply is: “We always carried our rifles at the trail.”


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