The Amateur Military Tradition in Buckinghamshire The Royal Bucks Hussars at Stowe, c. 1910 Bucks Trained Bands (Left): Muster Certificate for Lancers, Light Horse, and Petronels, 1595 (Right): Petition of the Bucks Trained Bands for a new Lord Lieutenant, June 1642 The Royal Bucks King’s Own Militia (Top Left): Miniature of an Officer, 1807 (Top Right): Artillery Detachment, 1793 (Bottom Right): Gun presented by the County, 1794 now in Fort Ticonderoga, New York State The Victorian Militia Revival (Left): Recruiting Poster, August 1852 (Middle): Officers at Wycombe Abbey, 1855 (Bottom Right): Private Henry Lee, 1863 The Bucks Yeomanry (Left): Articles of Enrolment, 3 May 1794 (Middle): Richard, Earl Temple as Colonel, 1839 (Right): Philip Pauncefort Duncombe, c. 1825 The Bucks Volunteers (Left): Drum of the Amersham Armed Association, 1806 (Middle): Resolutions of the Loyal Aylesbury Volunteers, 1803 (Right): Colour of the 1st or Southern Regiment of Bucks Volunteers, 1804 The Bucks Local Militia (Left): Sir Thomas Tyringham Bernard, 1816 (Right): Declaration for 2nd or Mid Bucks Regiment, 1812 The Royal Bucks Hussars (Left): Richard, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos as Colonel, 1841 (Right): Royal Bucks Hussars, 1897 Taplow Lancers (Left): Shapka of the South Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry (Taplow Lancers), c. 1870 (Right): Taplow Lancers, c. 1870 The Bucks Rifle Volunteers (Top left): NCOs of the 1st Bucks Rifle Volunteers in camp at Bourne End, August 1879 (Top Right): 1st Bucks Rifle Volunteers, 1893 (Bottom Left): Flag of the 4th Bucks (Aylesbury) RVC Bucks Territorials (Top Left): Royal Bucks Hussars at Wycombe, c. 1908 (Bottom Left): Bucks Battalion Signallers at Lulworth, 1911 (Top Right): South Midland Army Service Corps, Taplow, 1910 Wartime Expedients (Left): Recruiting Handbill for Gerrard’s Cross Company, 4th Bucks VTC, 1915 (Top Right): 4th Battalion, Bucks Volunteer Regiment, 1916 (Bottom Right): Great Missenden Platoon, 1st Bucks Home Guard, September 1942 Strategic Significance (Left): The Defences of Newport Pagnell by Cornelius Vanden Boome, 1644 (Right): RAF Bomber Command Operations Room, High Wycombe, c. 1942 Aid to the Civil Power (Left): Resolutions by Oxfordshire Magistrates thanking the 2nd (Mid) Regiment of Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry for its services in riots on Otmoor in September 1830 (Right): Medal issued to William Fludgate of 1st (Southern) Regiment of Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry for policing duties during George IV’s Coronation, 1821 Les boeufs-gros anglais (Left): ‘View of a Temple near Buckingham’ by Denis Dighton – Richard, 4th Earl Temple, later 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, as Colonel Commandant of the Royal Bucks King’s Own Militia, July 1811 The South African War (Left): Lord Chesham commanding the Imperial Yeomanry (Middle): Trooper of the 38th (High Wycombe) Company, Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa (Right): Welcome for the returning 37th and 38th Companies, IY at High Wycombe, 17 June 1901 The Great War: Royal Bucks Hussars (Left): El Mughar, 13 November 1917 (Right): 1/1st RBH in King’s Head Yard, Aylesbury, August 1914 (Bottom Right): 2/1st RBH in Buckingham, early 1915 The Great War: Bucks Battalions (Left): Recruiting Poster, 1914 (Top Right): 1/1st Bucks Battalion at Hébuterne, July 1915 (Right): 3/1st Bucks Battalion at bayonet practice. Burnham-on-Sea, 1916 The Second World War (Left): 303 Battery, 99th (RBY) Field Regiment on the road to Imphal, Burma, June 1944 (Right): Bren Gun Carriers of 2nd Bucks Battalion on exercise, Northern Ireland, 1941 Anti-militarism (Left): Lord Carrington shames Nonconformist opponents to the revival of the Militia, 1852 (Right): The first camp of the Bucks Volunteers at Marlow in 1865, soon to be disrupted by a mob Trade (Left): Men of the 3rd Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry (Royal Bucks King’s Own Militia) at a public house during the annual training in Aylesbury, May 1892 (Right): Plan of the annual training of the 1st (Southern) Regiment of Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry, Marlow, 20-25 May 1822 The Amateur Military Tradition in Buckinghamshire The 1st Bucks Rifle Volunteers at Claydon House, August 1875.