The Unveiling of the Regimental Memorials Old Cowley Barracks Oxford

on foreign soil. Below is an extract from a poem that was recited during the short service in memory of Alan, entitled ‘the Soldier’.

“If I should die, think only this of me:

That there’s some corner of a foreign field

That is forever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

A body of England’s, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home….”

Rupert Brooke. active interest and contributing his time and liaising with the Guyana Police Forces as a matter of protocol.

CSjt Glenrory Low was born in Georgetown, Guyana. In 2000 he left his homeland to join his parents in London and in 2001, he joined the 1st Bn The Royal Green Jackets now 2 Rifles

Guyana, (Formerly British Guiana) officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. It is the only English speaking country in South America, and is culturally considered part of the AnglophoneCaribbean sphere. In addition it is one of the founding member countries of the Caribbean Community organization. Guyana is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Brazil to the south and southwest, Venezuela to the west, and Suriname to the east. With an area of 215,000 square kilometres, Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state on mainland South America after Uruguay and Suriname.

The Unveiling of the Regimental Memorials at “Parade Green Campus”

On The Old Cowley Barracks Site Oxford

Unite Students and Oxford Brooks University have developed the old Cowley Barracks site into a most impressive campus with study bedrooms for 867 students, aptly named Parade Green. This impressive new building occupies the area which old regimental recruits will remember well, with its austere Victorian ‘Moore’ and ‘Napier’ barrack blocks and parade ground. What they will not recognise and may well dismiss is the luxury in which modern students will live in Parade Green.

members of the Regiment who passed through Cowley Barracks, who won the Victoria Cross, CSM Edward Brooks VC and L/Cpl Alfred Wilcox VC in WWI, and Lieutenant John Rayburn VC (att 2 Para) in WWII.

Cowley Barracks was the Regimental Depot of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (43rd & 52nd) from 1876-1958. In this new development, it was agreed to place a memorial to the regiment at the entrance to the university campus with a mural depicting the continuum of the regiment from 1741 to todays county regiment ‘The Rifles’ in the reception area. This means that as they enter the campus, hundreds of students will become familiar with the sacrifice made by generations in the county regiment to maintain the freedoms they enjoy and of its outstanding record and that its successor is, The Rifles. The Regimental Memorial is in the form of an altar shaped plinth with an inscription on top. On the front are three plaques commemorating the

The Unveiling

The ceremony on the 15th August 2019 began with the Regimental Assembly Call sounded by the two buglers, from The Rifles. This was followed by an opening address by General Sir Robert Pascoe KCB MBE.

Brigadier Robin Draper CVO OBE then recounted the story of the continuum of the regiment from its founding in 1741, through Quebec in 1759, the Peninsular War, the rout the Imperial Guard at Waterloo and the World Wars, including the defeat of the Prussian Guard and Nonne Boschen in 1914 and Pegasus Bridge on D Day 1944. He concluded with the post-war operations and the founding of its successor regiments, The Royal Green Jackets and The Rifles.

The new memorial was then unveiled by General Sir Robert Pascoe together with senior representatives of Oxford Brookes University, Unite Students and Corporal Reg Charles Legion d’Honneur,