The Royal Sherwood Foresters, originally the Nottinghamshire Militia, was an auxiliary regiment of the British Army from the English Midland county of...
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and 2nd battalions of the Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment). The Derbyshire Militia and Royal Sherwood Foresters Militia became the 3rd (Reserve)...
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The Nottinghamshire Marksmen – Royal Sherwood Foresters Militia The Notts and Jocks – Sherwood Foresters (from their previous title, The Nottinghamshire...
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Lord Edward Cavendish (category Sherwood Foresters officers)
army he joined the 2nd Derbyshire Militia (later the Sherwood Foresters), but transferred to the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in 1888. Cavendish...
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powers were frequently exercised by a deputy. He supervised the foresters and under-foresters, who personally went about preserving the forest and game and...
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William Mellish (cricketer) (category Nottinghamshire Militia officers)
When the Militia was reformed in 1852 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of Nottinghamshire's regiment, the Royal Sherwood Foresters Militia. He was in...
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (category Sherwood Foresters officers)
Volunteers from 1884 to 1891, of the 4th (Royal Sherwood Foresters Militia) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, from 1889 and its Special Reserve successor...
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Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment was amalgamated into The Mercian Regiment, as its 2nd Battalion (Worcesters and Foresters), leaving The Grey...
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Lancelot Rolleston (category Nottinghamshire Militia officers)
further children. He was appointed Colonel of the disembodied Royal Sherwood Foresters Militia on 11 April 1833, and retained the position when the regiment...
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Sir Thomas White, 2nd Baronet (category Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry officers)
Lieutenant-Colonel of both the Royal Sherwood Foresters Militia (commissioned 1 June 1833, resigned 1852) and also the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Cavalry, which...
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Sherwood Foresters on 8 February 1919 and was eventually disbanded at Dollymount in Ireland on 31 March 1920. The SR resumed its old title of Militia...
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his regiment as the Royal North Devon Hussars, with no acknowledgment as to his command of the 2/5th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)...
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amalgamated with the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) to form the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/44th...
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The Royal Meath Militia was an Irish Militia regiment in County Meath raised in 1793. It later became a battalion of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment...
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members of the Norfolk or Royal Norfolk Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross: Acting Lieutenant-Colonel John Sherwood-Kelly – at Battle of Cambrai...
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Athol Alexander Stuart (category Sherwood Foresters officers)
captain and adjutant of the Manchester Regiment and a major in the Sherwood Foresters. Stuart's brother Douglas Stuart was a Cambridge University and Olympic...
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John Ponsonby (British Army officer) (category Sherwood Foresters officers)
into the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters in March 1886. After transferring to the Royal Irish Rifles (later the Royal Ulster Rifles)...
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sailed as corps troops, and was then brigaded with the 1st Royal Scots, and 1st Sherwood Foresters, under General Sir William Gatacre. The battalions fought...
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2007, the Cheshire Regiment was merged with the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) and the Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of...
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Troops, Nottingham 350 (Nottinghamshire) Field Squadron, Chilwell 575 (Sherwood Foresters) Field Squadron, Chesterfield/Derby 75 Engineer Regiment Regimental...
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Welsh Regiment Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Essex Regiment Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire...
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Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln (category Nottinghamshire Militia officers)
A.E. Lawson Lowe, Historical Record of the Royal Sherwood Foresters; or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia, London: Mitchell, 1872, pp. 12, 15, 83. v...
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John Byron, 1st Baron Byron (category Nottinghamshire Militia officers)
A.E. Lawson Lowe, Historical Record of the Royal Sherwood Foresters; or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia, London: Mitchell, 1872 Watson, Paula; Ferris...
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The Royal Berkshire Militia was an auxiliary military regiment in the county of Berkshire in Southern England. From their formal organisation as Trained...
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and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (in Worksop, Mansfield & Beeston, Nottinghamshire) G (HSF) Coy 3rd (V) Bn, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters (in Derby...
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Hood Rifles, which was to become the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). The rifles identity was...
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Kerry. Lord Castlerosse was a lieutenant of 4th (Militia) Battalion, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters. He was appointed Master of the Horse to the Lord...
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Charles Hudson (VC) (category Sherwood Foresters officers)
and third child of Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Edward Hudson of the Sherwood Foresters and his wife . He was educated at a preparatory school in East Grinstead...
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British Army order of precedence (section Household Cavalry, Royal Armoured Corps and Infantry orders of precedence)
Corps General Service Corps Royal Corps of Army Music Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) (Army Reserve) Honourable Artillery Company (Although...
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amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment to form the Mercian Regiment. The regiment was formed as...
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