Oxford/Bucks Light Infantry 1914-1918

[Bones]

My Great Grandad joined the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry in 1914, but in 1917 he was in the Northamptonshire regiment. I am trying to find out why he changed regiments or if they merged? How can I find this out?

[busyglen]

Hello Bones,

I don't know if this will help or not..(I haven't had time to go through the pages) but if you go here: http://www.1914-1918.net/oxbucks.htm there is a list of what companies merged and what they become. If you don't find anything here, do a Google search for Northants Regiment and see what comes up.

Good Luck.

Glenys

[nigelshipp]

hi,
if you went on leave or returned from wounds hopefully you'd go back to your regiment but if a particular regiment had suffered heavy casualties or was just understrength then you'd be sent there instead to help rebuild it.
so although his medal would say a particular regiment (his first one - the one he enlisted in) swapping between regiments was very very common and some men had upto 4

regards
nigel