The Worcestershire Regiment was a line infantry regiment in the British Army, formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 29th Regiment of Foot and the 36th Regiment of Foot.
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Men of the 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, resting after a march in Bareilly, India, 1910.
Officers of the 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, at Jhansi, India, December 1911.
Officers of the 1st Worcesters in Egypt, 1914. Two future VC recipients, G. W. St. G. Grogan (front row, second from left) and F. C. Roberts (back row, centre), are among the officers shown.
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
Worcestershire Regiment
…Regiment of Foot. The regiment fought in many conflicts, including both the First and Second World Wars, until 1970, when it was amalgamated with the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) to form the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/44th Foot). In September 2007, the regiment amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and…
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.