The main actions for the two territorial Ox and Bucks Battalions who were in France in 1940 occurred at Cassel and Hazebrouck, the 4th Battalion at Cassel and the Bucks Battalion at Hazebrouck. The town of Hazebrouck is significant for the story of A  Company  from Wolverton.

If you Google 'Hazebrouck' and 'Ox and Bucks Light Infantry' the majority of the returns are about the WW1. It is a sobering thought to reflect that a little over twenty years later men from the Ox and Bucks were fighting over the same ground as their regimental predecessors. Clearly the first war was not the war to end all wars.

Ox and Bucks men from both wars killed at Hazebrouck are all buried in the Hazebrouck Community Cemetery.
Not WW1
 
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