2nd battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Shown here during world war two operations
leading a bayonet charge from traverse to traverse
and heavily damaged a second
Alexander at Arbela, Plain of Gaugamela, Iraq, 331BC by David Pentland. (P) REG236 2nd battalion Oxfordshire and BuckinghamshireDHM1359P. Alexander at Arbela, Plain of Gaugamela, Iraq, 331BC by David Pentland. Flanked by his Companion heavy cavalry, Alexander, King of Macedon, led the charge which broke through the left wing of the Persian army, and forced Darius, the Great King, to flee the battlefield. Persian success against his own left wing forced him to delay his pursuit of the routed troops, but by the end of the day the battle was won, and the heart of the Persian