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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
11-09-2005, 7:24 PM
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: 1914-1918.net/oxbucks.htm (put www. at the front) 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
19-10-2005, 5:09 PM
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
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