Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 November 1999. Corrected and updated 10.07.2005
 

8th (Nottinghamshire) Battalion,
The Sherwood Foresters

[and all Nottinghamshire successors]
1859-1992
 
United Kingdom 
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons

  Badges and Uniforms
  Colonels
 Traditions
 Bibliography

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.
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage English County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles
   
  1862.09.25 1st Administrative Battalion, Nottinghamshire Rifle Volunteers
formed with HQ at East Retford to administer existing companies:
   
  • 2nd Nottinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, at East Retford, raised Mar. 1860
  • 3rd Nottinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, at Newark, raised 1860
  • 4th Nottinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, at Mansfield, raised 1860
  • 5th Nottinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, at Thorney Wood, raised 1860
  • 6th Nottinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, at Collingham, raised 1860
  • 7th Nottinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, at Worksop, raised 1860
  • 8th Nottinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, at Southwell, raised 1860; disbanded 1863
  1880. 2nd Nottinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
(eight companies at East Retford, Newark (two), Mansfield, Thorney Wood Chase, Collingham, Worksop and Southwell)
  1881.07.01 volunteer battalion of The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
  1887.04 4th (Nottinghamshire) Volunteer Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
  1890 HQ moved to Newark
  1900-1902 volunteers found Volunteer Service Company for service with ? Bn in South Africa
  1902 4th (Nottinghamshire) Volunteer Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
  1908.04.01 8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Newark
  1920.02.07 reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Newark
  1939.05.28 formed duplicate 2/8th Battalion
  1947.01.01 8th (Nottinghamshire) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Retford, and concurrently amalgamated with 9th Battalion
  1961.02.01 amalgamated with 5th (Derbyshire) Battalion, to form 5th/8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
 
  1967.04.01 The Nottinghamshire (Territorial) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
formed in TAVR III with HQ at Nottingham from Nottinghamshire coys of 5th/8th Bn The Sherwood Foresters
   
  • A Company at Nottingham
  • B Company at Sutton-in-Ashfield
  • C Company at Worksop
  1969.01.01 reduced to cadre at Nottingham without change of title, sponsored by Mercian Volunteers
  1971.04.01

E (Nottinghamshire Foresters) Company, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Battalion, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)
reconstituted from cadre at Newark with Pln at Worksop; later consolidated at Worksop

  <1971.10> E (Nottinghamshire Foresters) Company, 3rd (V) Battalion, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)
  1992.09.01

battalion reorganised in three rifle company establishment, and companies lost traditional county affiliation -- see Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Volunteers for continuing joint lineage of those counties

     
     
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Volunteers
History:
[no links have been found]
   
Deployment and War Service of Units:
1/8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters [1914-1919]
  2/8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters [1914-1918]
  8th (Reserve) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters [1915-1916]
  8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters [1939-1946]
  9th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters [1939-1944]
 
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
[no external sites have been found]
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
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Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
[no external sites have been found -- see also parent regiment]
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

South Africa 1900-02

The Great War: [contributed to honours of parent regiment]

The Second World War: [contributed to honours of parent regiment]
  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Record of Colours:
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges:
Uniform:
   
   
     
   
   
  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
1891.11.14 Col. H. Eyre, CB, VD
1904.08.27 Col. C.W.S., Earl Manvers, VD
1937.05.23 Col. B. Abel Smith, DSO, MC, ADC
  Traditions
 
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  Bibliography How To Find Books
First World War:
Weetman, W.C. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War, 1914-1919 : 1/8th Battalion. Nottingham : Thos. Forman & Sons, 1920.
   
Second World War:
Housley, Cliff. "First contact" : a history of the 8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters, 1939-1945. Long Eaton : Miliquest Publications, 1997.
   
Manuscripts:
Nicholson, E.H.; Beckwith, E.G.C. 8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters : The Colonels book, 1750-1820 and 1859-1905. Typescript, 1962.
Beckwith, E.G.C. The 8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters, T.A. : Campaign in Norway, April 1940. [typescript?], 1958.