Ox and Bucks Beret

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posted on 2024-06-05, 17:43 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

The beret has the cap badge of the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry. This regiment was present at Pegasus Bridge on the evening of D-Day the two bridges needed to be taken. The codewords for successful missions in taking both were ham and jam. This cap badge was acquired many years ago

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Cap badge

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Ox and Bucks Light Infantry (?)

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Richard Evans

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Shared at Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum, Gwynedd on 23 and 24 September 2023.

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118679 | RWF001

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Their Finest Hour World War Two D Day D-Day Landings Invasion Normandy Normandy Landings Operation Neptune Operation Overlord D-Day Photo Photograph Photographs Photos

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