E-text prepared by Geetu Melwani, Christine P. Travers, Carl Hudkins, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/c/) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 20395-h.htm or 20395-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/3/9/20395/20395-h/20395-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/3/9/20395/20395-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/24thoxfordshire00roseuoft THE STORY OF THE 2/4TH OXFORDSHIRE & BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY by CAPTAIN G. K. ROSE, M.C. With a Preface by _Brig. Genl. the Hon. R. WHITE, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (late Commander 184th Infantry Brigade) And an Introduction by Colonel W. H. AMES, T.D. With Maps and Illustrations by the Author [Illustration: A soldier of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Oxford B. H. Blackwell, Broad Street MCMXX LIST OF PLATES A Soldier of the Battalion _Frontispiece_ Colonel W. H. Ames, T.D. _Facing page_ 1 Pay-day for 'A' Company " " 4 Robecq from the South " " 18 Brigadier-General the Hon. R. White, C.B. 48 A Front-line Post 68 Company Sergeant-Major E. Brooks, V.C. 100 Vlamertinghe--The Road to Ypres 128 Hill 35, from an aeroplane photograph 136 A Street in Arras 144 'Tank Dump' 146 In a German gun-pit near Gavrelle 150 The Canal du Nord at Ypres 154 Lieut.-Colonel H. E. de R. Wetherall, D.S.O., M.C. 168 Robecq. Old Mill and Bridge 185 The Headquarters Runners, July, 1918 198 Corporal A. Wilcox, V.C. 214 Officers of the Battalion, December, 1918 219 184th Infantry Brigade Staff 219 The Adjutant. Cambrai. The Battalion Cooks 220 Lieut.-Colonel E. M. Woulfe-Flanagan, C.M.G., D.S.O. R.S.M. W. Hedley, D.C.M. R.Q.M.S. Hedges 220 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT