Star Inn - Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
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BruceS
N 51° 45.176 W 001° 15.508
30U E 620209 N 5734994
Blue plaque marking location where military unit was formed in Oxford.
Waymark Code: WM9ZVR
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/23/2010
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Text of plaque:
In 1794
at the star Inn near this site
The Oxfordshire Yeomanry
(Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars)
was formed.
In 1794 the government feared the invasion by French Revolutionary forces. This fear led to the government to ask for troops of volunteers to be formed in the shires. The Oxfordshire "Nobility Gentry, Freeholders ad Yeomanry" met at the Star Inn, this meeting led to the formation of the County Fencible Cavalry the forerunner to the Oxfordshire Yeomanry. This unit later became known as the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars.
From Wikipedia:
"The Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars was the designated name of a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army between 1888 and 1922. In response a call by the government for troops of volunteers to be formed in the shires, meeting of “Nobility, Gentry, Freeholders and Yeomanry” was called at the Star Inn in Cornmarket, Oxford in 1794. This led to the formation in 1798 of a troop of yeomen known as the County Fencible Cavalry at Watlington, Oxfordshire in 1798. Renamed several times before becoming the QOOH, it saw service in the Boer War with 40 and 59 Companies of the Imperial Yeomanry and also served in Belgium and France during the Great War. In 1922, the regiment became part of the Royal Artillery. In 1998 it celebrated its bi-centenary by being granted the Freedom of Banbury"