Units and Formations

[JN Heddle]

Can anyone, please, help me out on this conundrum ?

The Oxford Rifles (Cdn Army Res) did not see action as a Unit, in WW I, but they perpetuate two Battalions of the Cdn Exped For, that, at least got as far as England. Here, they (71^st & 168^th Bns, CEF) were broken-up, in order to supply reinforcements to the fighting Battalions of the Cdn Corps in France.

As a result, neither the 71^st or the 168^th Bns, CEF, received any Battle Honours. However, in 1930, the Oxford Rifles were granted the following 7 Battle Honours (via List 3, pg 6, GO 71 / 1930) for emblazonment :

SOMME 1916.

ARRAS, 1917; '18.

HILL 70.

YPRES, 1917.

AMIENS.

HINDENBURG LINE.

PURSUIT TO MONS.

These honours had to have come from somewhere and to have involved a stipulated number of Ox Rif personnel in some fighting Battalion.

The real question is how do I ferret-out this answer ? And, yes, I believe it will be a long and tedious process.

But where do I begin and progress to a conclusion ?

via con Dios

JN Heddle