The 45th Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1741. The regiment saw action during Father Le Loutre's War, the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War
Badge of the 45th Regiment of Foot
Winckworth Tonge, Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
c. 1742 engraving of a regimental private
c. 1751 painting of a regimental grenadier (right)
Sherwood Foresters
Videos
The Sherwood Foresters was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for just under 90 years, from 1881 to 1970. In 1970, the regiment was amalgamated with the Worcestershire Regiment
45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot
…War, the First Anglo-Burmese War and the Xhosa Wars. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) in 1881. The regiment was originally raised by Colonel Daniel Houghton as Houghton's Regiment in 1741 for service during the War of the Austrian…
Memorial for G Collins of the Sherwood Foresters, giving the full title of the regiment
The grave of Captain Frederick Henry Meredith Lewes, Adjutant of 1/5th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, erected by the Germans at Gommecourt, where he was killed on 1 July 1916. Photograph taken in March 1917
Bomb carrying party of the 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters going up to the front line at La Boisselle, France, 6 July 1916.
Men of the 1/8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, fixing fuses in stokes mortar bombs. Fonquevillers, France, March 1917.