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Medals of the Regiments:
The Sherwood Foresters
(Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)

 
 
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The Sherwood Foresters
(Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)

1741 - 1970
 
 
Titles
pre 1881 post 1881
   
45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot 1st Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot 2nd Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
   
 
Earliest recognised formation: 45th: 1741 when raised as Daniel Houghton's Regiment of Foot. Became the 45th Regiment of Foot in 1751
95th: 1823, when raised at Winchester as the 95th Regiment of Foot. (note: The Rifle Brigade had also been numbered the 95th , 1802-1816.)
 
Motto: ???
 
Regimental Journal:  "The Sherwood Foresters Regimental Annual", later "The Foresters Journal"
 
WWI: Battle Honours; 57 Victoria Crosses; 9 (1) Died; 11410
WWII:    Battle Honours; 25 Victoria Crosses; 1 Died; 1520
 
Amalgamated: 1970 with The Worcestershire Regiment to form  The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
 
 
A 2nd Battalion of the 45th was operational 1804-1814 (remained in England), and a Reserve Battalion 1842-1850 (served South African wars)
 

 Peninsula War 1808 - 1814   1st Battalion, 45th Regiment.

Military General Service Medal 1793 - 1814

 
clasp:

Roleia

Vimiera

Corunna

Talavera

Busaco

Fuentes d' Onor

Ciudad Rodrigo

number: 73121 2144 11565 140
 
clasp:

Badajos

Salamanca

Vittoria

Pyrenees

Nivelle

Nive

Orthes

number: 143142 170129 7643 145
 
clasp:

Toulouse

Total Medals Max clasps        
number: 155278 15      
 
 
 

The Surgeon of the 45th was also entitled to an Egypt clasp  

 

Battle Honours: Rolica, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Tolouse Peninsula.

 
 
 

First Anglo-Burmese War 1824-1826  45th Regiment

Army of India Medal 1799 - 1826

clasp:

Ava

number: 120
 

Battle Honour: Ava

 
 
 

7th & 8th Kaffir Wars 1846 - 1853  45th Regiment: 1st Battalion and Reserve Battalion present (Battalions amalgamated 1850)

South Africa Medal 1834-53

number: >694*
 

*Accurate records have not survived - 694 issued at the original presentation according to royal mint records. Final figure will be higher than this. (750 is the number estimated by Everson in his book "The South Africa 1853 Medal")

 

Battle Honours: South Africa 1846-7

 
 
 

Crimean War  1854 - 1856  95th Regiment

Crimea Medal 1854 -56

 
Clasp: →..none...

Alma

Balaklava

Inkermann

Sebastopol

Total Medals 
Number: ?? ?? ?? 
 

 

 

Battle Casualties;

Action.KilledDied of Wounds'Wounded'Dangerously
Wounded
Severely
Wounded
Slightly
Wounded
MissingTotal
The Battle of the Alma 50- 138- -- 3191
First bombardment of Sebastopol, first battle of Inkermann and minor actions 1- 1- -9 -11
The Battle of Inkermann 271 -16 7226 -142
The Assault on the Quarries -2* -- 2- -4
First Attack on the Redan -- -- -- --
Final Attack on the Redan -- -- 32 -5
2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th Bombardments of Sebastopol and Minor Actions. 4- -2 1426 -46
Magazine explosion at the French Siege Train -- -- -- --

Grand Total:     

399

*Both recorded as 'wounded mortally'

 

Men who served in the Crimea also eligible for:

Turkish Crimea Medal 1855

 
 

Battle Honours:  Alma; Inkermann Sevastopol.

 
 
 

Indian Mutiny 1857-59  95th Regiment

India Mutiny Medal. 1857 -59

 
clasp:

Central India

total
number: 759 759
 


VCs: 1;   McQuirt,  see VC page

 

Battle Honour: Central India

 
 
 

Abyssinian War 1867 - 68  45th Regiment

Abyssinian Medal 1867 - 68

 
number:?
 

Battle Honour: Abyssinia

 
1881: The Regiments now become the 1st and 2nd Battalions, The Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)
 

First Sudan War, Egypt 1882-4  2nd Battalion.

Egypt and Sudan Medal 1882-89

 
clasp: ....none....
number: ?
 

Recipients also entitled to a Khedive's Star dated "1882"

Battle Honour:  Egypt 1882

 
 
 

Himalayan Wars 1861 - 1888: Operations against the Tibetans at Sikkim 1888.  2nd Battalion (two companies)

India General Service Medal 1854 - 95

  
clasp:
Sikkim 1888
number: 481
 

 

 
 
 

North West Frontier Operations 1897-98  2nd Battalion

India Medal 1895

clasp:

Punjab Frontier  1897-98

Tirah 1897-98
number:??
 


VCs: 1;  Pennell  see VC page

 

Battle Honour:  Tirah

 
 
 

Anglo - Boer War 1899 - 1902.  1st Battalion, December 1899 to the end of the War. A detachment of the Derbyshire Regiment also served as Mounted Infantry, and a large number of men from the four volunteer battalions also served.

Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902, with or without the King's South Africa Medal 1901 - 1902

Common clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; also:

 
      M.I.?      
clasp:

Johannesburg

Diamond Hill

Wittebergen

     
number:            
             
 

 

Casualties:

Officers NCOs and Men
KIA & DOW/ DoD Wounded Missing / POW KIA & DOW Death from disease Wounded Missing / POW
 
2 / 1 13 - 57 44 137 4
 


VCs: 2;  Bees,   Beet.   see VC page

 

Battle Honour: South Africa 1899-1902

 
1902: Title changed to:  "The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)"
 

The Great War 1914 - 1918  ( 33 battalions; 18 served overseas:- )

Generally awarded the British War Medal & Victory Medal, men overseas prior to 1/1/1916 also a 1914 or 1914-15 Star.

Battalion → 1*  2 1/5 1/6 1/7 1/8 2/5 2/6 2/7 2/8
Robin Hood Robin Hood
date of first overseas service.
 (first theatre red x )
5/11
1914
11/9
1914
25/2
1915
25/2
1915
25/2
1915
25/2
1915
26/2
1917
25/2
1917
26/2
1917
26/2
1917
France & Flanders x x x x x x x x x x
Gallipoli                    
Egypt & Palestine                    
Mesopotamia                   
Macedonia                    
Italy                    
Star
possible ?
1914 or 1914-15 x x                
or 1914-15 only     x x x x        
VCs at a glance:            
died
Extracted from : "Soldiers / Officers Died in the Great War" (consider approximate - in addition the regiment as a whole lost an additional 198 officers who are recorded with 'battalion not shown'  or with battalions not shown here, or who we have  not yet allocated a battalion.)
1326 1308 755 477 573 538 399 395 407 217
other ranks only:-  officers counted with 1st line territorials.
 
*In India at the start, moved first to the UK
 
Regular Territorial Force New Armies Garrison.

 

Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19
15 officers and 170 men of the Sherwood Foresters also qualified for this medal.

 


VCs: 9;   Egerton,  Greaves,  Hudson,  Johnson,  Rivers,  Upton, Vann, Vickers,  Ball ( Ball RFC)  see VC  page

 

Battle Honours:  Aisne 1914, 1918; Neuve Chapelle; Loos; Somme 1916, 1918; Ypres 1917, 1918; Cambrai 1917, 1918; St Quentin Canal; France and Flanders 1914-18; Italy 1917-18; Gallipoli 1915.  Armentières 1914; Aubers; Hooge 1915; Albert 1916, 1918; Bazentin; Delville Wood; Pozières; Ginchy; Flers-Courcelette; Morval; Thiepval; Le Transloy; Ancre Heights; Ancre 1916; Arras 1917, 1918; Vimy 1917; Scarpe 1917, 1918; Messines 1917; Pilckem;' Langemarck 1917; Menin Road; Polygon Wood; Broodseinde; Poelcapelle; Passchendaele; St Quentin; Bapaume 1918; Rosières; Villers Bretonneux; Lys; Bailleul; Kemmel; Scherpenberg; Amiens; Drocourt-Quéant; Hindenburg Line; Epéhy; Canal du Nord; Beaurevoir; Courtrai; Selle; Sambre; Piave; Suvla; Landing at Suvla; Scimitar Hill; Egypt 1916.

 
 
 

The Great War 1914 - 1918 

continued.........

Battalion → 9 10 11 12 15 16 17 1
Pioneers Nottingham Chatsworth Rifles Welbeck Rangers Garrison
date of first overseas service.
 (first theatre red x )
20/7
1915
14/7
1915
27/8
1915
29/8
1915
1/2
1916
6/3
1916
6/3
1916
?/10
1915
France & Flanders x x x x x x x  
Gallipoli x              
Via Mudros
Egypt & Palestine x             x
Via Malta
Mesopotamia                
Macedonia                
Italy     x          
Star
possible ?
1914  or 1914-15                
or 1914-15 only x x x x       ?
VCs at a glance:          
died
see above
738 1039 683 217 655 592 561 22
 
 

 

 
 
 

Operations against the Waziris and Mahsuds, North West Frontier 1919 - 24 2nd Battalion

India General Service Medal 1908

clasp:
Waziristan 1921-24
numbers: ?
 
 
 
 
 

Jewish / Arab unrest, Palestine 1936 - 39 1st Battalion

General Service Medal 1918 -62

clasp:

Palestine

numbers: ?
 
 
 
 
 

WW2 1939 - 1945  10 battalions served overseas:

Battalion → 1st 2nd 1/5th 2/5th (5th) 8 9 12 13 14
campaign ↓                  
Norway 1940         x        
France and Belgium 1940.
(Dunkirk )
  x x x   x      
North Africa
 & Middle East
x
Captured by the Germans at Tobruk
x   x         x
Burma                  
Far East     x
Captured by the Japanese at Singapore
           
Sicily / Italy   x   x         x
N.W. Europe*                  
 

Notes.

   1st Armoured Division; captured Tobruk June '42. reconstituted by conversion of the 16th Bn., but remained in the UK 3rd Infantry Brigade for the Duration 25th Infantry Brigade for F&B'40. Later 55th Infantry Brigade  captured on Singapore Island by the Japanese 15/2/42 139th Infantry Brigade. Renumbered the "5th" after the loss of 1/5th at Singapore.  148th Infantry Brigade for Norway. 139th Infantry Brigade for F&B'40. Converted to RAC Sent to India Nov '42,  became  Jungle training battalion. To India May '42, converted to RAC, then back to 13th Bn. Infantry Dec '43 Previously numbered '50th'. served sometime 7th Motor Brigade, and 2 NZ Division for El Alamein.
 
  no combat service.
 

WW2 Stars common to the Battalion. (excluding 39-45 star )
 Key: A = Africa, P = Pacific, B =  Burma, I = Italy,  F&G = France and Germany

  A. A, I. P A, I. - - - - A, I.
                   
 

* 6th Bn. and the Robin Hoods converted to  R.A Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight units respectively, and served in NW Europe 44-45

 


VCs: 1;  Brunt (Att. 6th Lincolns) see VC Page

 

Most also entitled to the 1939-45 War Medal and many the Defence Medal

 

Battle Honours: Norway 1940; Gazala; El Alamein; Tunis; Salerno; Anzio; Campoleone; Gothic Line; Coriano; Singapore Island. St Omer-La Bassée; Ypres-Comines Canal; Dunkirk 1940; North-West Europe 1940; Djebel Guerba; Tamera; Medjez Plain; North Africa 1942-3; Volturno Crossing; Monte Camino; Advance to Tiber; Cosina Canal Crossing; Monte Ceco; Italy 1943-5; Malaya 1942.

 
 
 

Jewish / Arab Unrest,  Palestine 1945 - 48 2nd  Battalion (1945-)

General Service Medal 1918 -62

clasp:
Palestine 1945-48
number: ?
 
 
 
1948: Regulars reduced to a single battalion (the 1st). 2nd reformed 1952, then finally disbanded 1955.
 

The Malaya Emergency: Operations against Communist insurgents. 1948-60 1st Battalion (1958-60)

General Service Medal 1918 - 62

clasp:

Malaya

number:?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Selected Links

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Selected Bibliography;

 
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Additional Bibliography for this Page.

 
Author/Compiler Title Publisher
Officers of the Regiment. Unpublished rolls in the care of the National Archives; WO 100/ etc. -
  Additional bibliography same as Northumberland Fusiliers page  
     
     
 

 

 

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