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Authors
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Wienand
Drenth, T.F. Mills |
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Page
created 1 November 1999. Corrected and updated 07.07.2005
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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 |
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1967.04.01 |
disbanded and concurrently reconstituted
as : |
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1969.01.01 |
TAVR III elements reduced to cadres [q.v.]
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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:
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<1971.10> |
3rd (V) Battalion, The
Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) |
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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
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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
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1980.03.01 |
HQ Company formed,
possibly from part E Company
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1985.01.01 |
F (Nottinghamshire HSF)
Company formed at Worksop, Mansfield
and Nottingham;
G (Derbyshire HSF)
Company formed at Derby and Chesterfield
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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
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- 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
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1993.04.01 |
absorbed personnel of D Company, 4th
Battalion |
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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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History: |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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Deployment and War Service of Units: |
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Biography
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see also parent regiment] |
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Honorary Colonel, 5th/8th Bn, Sherwood
Foresters [1961-1967]: |
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1961 |
Lt-Col. (Hon. Col.) Henry William King,
MBE, TD, DL |
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1965.01.11 |
Col. John Erskine Nicholson, OBE, TD |
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Honorary Colonel, Nottinghamshire (T)
Battalion [1967-1969]: |
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1967.04.01 |
Col. J.E. Nicholson, OBE, TD |
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Honorary Colonel, 3rd Bn, Worcestershire
and Sherwood Foresters Regt [1971-1999]: |
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1971.04.01 |
Maj-Gen. Robert Gordon-Finlayson, OBE, JP |
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1978.03.31 |
Lt-Col. Patrick Thomas Salvin Bowlby, TD |
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1983.04.01 |
Brig. C.E. Wilkinson, CBE, TD |
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1994.04.23 |
Brig. M.E. Browne, CBE, TD |
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Deputy Honorary Colonel (Nottinghamshire
and Derbyshire), The East of England
Regt [1999-present]: |
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