Troops of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1942
THIS is the second part of the panoramic picture of the 2nd Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Men from the unit, also known as the 52nd Regiment Light Infantry, posed for the cameraman at Bulford Camp, in Wiltshire, in October 1942, at the height of the Second World War.
The photograph belongs to Tony Evans, of Grays Road, Headington, whose uncle, Frank Evans, served with the regiment. Tony’s father, Bill, a member of the 4th Battalion of the Ox and Bucks, a Territorial Army unit, had been taken prisoner in May 1940 at Cassel, in northern France, as Allied forces retreated to Dunkirk.
He made three unsuccessful attempts to escape before being freed by the Americans at the end of the war in 1945.
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