The King’s Order in Council embodying the Territorial Force was posted here on Tuesday afternoon. Immediately all ranks of the Yeomanry regiment and Territorial Infantry had to report themselves to their headquarters.
The C and G Companies of the 4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry under Captain E. C. Fortescue had left Banbury about ten o’clock on Sunday morning for the annual brigade camp at Great Marlow, where they arrived in the early afternoon. Their stay was, however, to be short. The same evening, news arrived that the brigade, which consisted of the 5th Gloucesters, 4th Oxford and Bucks, the Bucks Battalion of the same regiment and the Royal Berks should return to their several headquarters and await the expected order to mobilise. The brigade left camp early on Monday morning, the Banbury companies reaching here at noon. The presence of the men in uniform about the town during the rest of the day and on Tuesday emphasised the character of the time of crisis. On Tuesday morning, Lieut.-Colonel A. Stockton, commanding the battalion, left for the headquarters at Oxford, and during the day orders were issued for the battalion to concentrate there on the following day.
Banbury Guardian, August 1914