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45th (Nottinghamshire)
(Sherwood Foresters)
Regiment of Foot
 
United Kingdom 
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1741.01.11 Daniel Houghton's Regiment of Foot
also known by the name of one other colonel until 1751
1747 ranked as 56th Foot
1751.07.01 45th Regiment of Foot
1782.08.31 45th (the Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
1866.12.28 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot
1881.07.01 united with 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot to form The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
The 45th Regiment of Foot: a History, by Stephen Mee.
     
  Regulars:
    [1st Battalion] [1741-1881]
    2nd Battalion [1804-1814]
     
Depot and Reserves:
  Reserve Battalion [1842-1850]
  ? Depot Battalion [1856-1871]
  27th Brigade Depot at Leicester [1873-1881]
   
   

Rolica, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes d’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, Ava, Abyssinia

Note: see also successor for belatedly awarded battle honours.

   
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1741.01.11 Brig-Gen. Daniel Houghton
1745.06.22 Gen. Hugh Warburton
1761.09.24 Maj-Gen. Andrew Robinson
1761.11.11 Maj-Gen. Hon. John Boscawen [also 75th Foot]
1767.06.01 Gen. William Haviland
1784.10.18 Maj-Gen. Sir John Wrottesley, Bt.
1787.04.28 Lt-Gen. James Cuninghame
1788.09.11 Gen. James Whorwood Adeane
1802.04.22 Gen. Frederick Cavendish Lister
1823.02.10 Gen. Richard (Lambart), 7th Earl of Cavan, KC [also 58th Foot, 77th Foot, 2nd West India Regt]
1837.11.29 Lt-Gen. Sir William Henry Pringle, GCB [also 64th Foot, R Newf Fencibles]
1840.12.30 Gen. Sir Fitzroy Jeffries Grafton Maclean, Bt.
1847.07.12 Gen. Sir Colin Halkett, GCB, GCH [also 31st Foot, 71st Hldrs, 95th Foot, 2nd Lt Bn KGL; Cin-C Bombay 1831-32, Gov. R Hospital 1849-56]
1856.09.25 Gen. Thomas Brabazon Aylmer
1858.07.20 F.M. Sir Hugh Henry (Rose), 1st Baron Strathnairn, GCB, GCSI
1866.06.25 Gen. Thomas Armstrong Drought
1868.04.21 Gen. Frederick Horn, GCB
1876.03.17 Gen. Henry Cooper
1878.08.25 Gen. Sir Daniel Lysons, GCB
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Sherwood Foresters Regimental Museum, Nottingham (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
Sherwood Foresters Regimental Museum, Nottingham (Simonides listing)
Regimental Journal:
Full Histories:
Dalbiac, Philip Hugh. History of the 45th: 1st Nottinghamshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters). [London] : S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1902.
Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael). History of the 1st & 2nd Battalions, the Sherwood Foresters, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, 1740-1914. 45th Foot, 95th Foot. [Frome : Butler & Tanner], 1929. [2 v.]
Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael). Record of services of the officers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, the Sherwood Foresters, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, 45th and 95th, 1741-1931. [s.l. : s.n.], 1931.
 
Short Histories:
Colomb, P.H. The 45th Regiment (Nottinghamshire) Sherwood Foresters. Derby : Bemrose, 1894.
   
Manuscripts and Archives:
Orderly Books of the Crown Forces in America 1775-1784, compiled by John K. Robertson, Don Hagist, Todd Braisted, and Don Londahl-Smidt (RevWar'75)