Geoffrey Vickers
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Colonel Sir Charles Geoffrey Vickers, VC was an English lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist. He had varied interests with roles at different times with the London Passenger
Vickers in 1973
Vickers during the war.
Photo submitted by Martin Hornby - (Gallaher Cigarette Cards).
Sherwood Foresters
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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
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.