Authors and Contributors this page: Wienand Drenth, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 November 1999. Corrected and updated 07.07.2005
 

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Volunteers:

5th/8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters
3rd Battalion, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment

1961-present
 
United Kingdom 
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Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
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  1961.02.01 5th/8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
formed by amalgamation of 5th (Derbyshire) Battalion and 8th (Nottinghamshire) Battalion
  1967.04.01 disbanded and concurrently reconstituted as :
   
  1969.01.01

TAVR III elements reduced to cadres [q.v.]

  1971.04.01

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Battalion, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)
formed with HQ and Administrative Pln at Newark from the cadres of former TAVR III units:

   
  <1971.10> 3rd (V) Battalion, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)
  1975.04.01

B Battery at Beeston disbanded (personnel to D Company); A Sqn redesignated A Company, and moved to Mansfield retaining detachment at Retford

  1978.04.01

B (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Company formed at Sutton-in-Ashfield and Ilkeston from elements The Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry Sqn, 7th (V) Bn The Royal Anglian Regt

  1980.03.01

HQ Company formed, possibly from part E Company

  1985.01.01

F (Nottinghamshire HSF) Company formed at Worksop, Mansfield and Nottingham;
G (Derbyshire HSF) Company formed at Derby and Chesterfield

  1992.09.01

reorganised into three rifle company establishment; B Coy at Sutton-in-Ashfield absorbed by B Squadron The Royal Yeomanry; F Coy and G Coy disbanded

   
  • HQ Company (including Assault Pioneer and Recce Plns) at Foresters House, Nottingham, and GPMG (SF) Pln at Mansfield, redesignation of D Coy (absorbed personnel of disbanded D Coy 4th Battalion)
  • A Company at Mansfield with Pln at Newark, amalgamation of HQ Coy and A Coy
  • B Company at Worksop with Pln at Chesterfield, amalgamation of E Coy and Chesterfield Pln C Coy
  • C Company at Derby with Pln at Ilkeston, amalgamation of C Coy and detachment of B Coy
  1993.04.01 absorbed personnel of D Company, 4th Battalion
  1999.07.01 D (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire (Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters)) Company, The East of England Regiment
at Mansfield (Pln at Derby), amalgamation of A Coy (less Newark det) and C Coy (less Ilkeston det); remainder of WSFR battalion disbanded
     
     
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  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
  Honorary Colonel, 5th/8th Bn, Sherwood Foresters [1961-1967]:
1961 Lt-Col. (Hon. Col.) Henry William King, MBE, TD, DL
1965.01.11 Col. John Erskine Nicholson, OBE, TD
  Honorary Colonel, Nottinghamshire (T) Battalion [1967-1969]:
1967.04.01 Col. J.E. Nicholson, OBE, TD
  Honorary Colonel, 3rd Bn, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regt [1971-1999]:
1971.04.01 Maj-Gen. Robert Gordon-Finlayson, OBE, JP
1978.03.31 Lt-Col. Patrick Thomas Salvin Bowlby, TD
1983.04.01 Brig. C.E. Wilkinson, CBE, TD
1994.04.23 Brig. M.E. Browne, CBE, TD
  Deputy Honorary Colonel (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire), The East of England Regt [1999-present]:
   
     
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