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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.
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
Sherwood Foresters
…lineage of the Sherwood Foresters is now continued by The Mercian Regiment. The regiment was formed on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms. The 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot (raised in 1741) and the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot (raised in 1823) were redesignated as the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Sherwood Foresters…
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)