Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 13.08.2005
1824-1881
2nd Battalion,
The Sherwood Foresters
1881-1955
United Kingdom  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
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Lineage
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  1823.12.01 95th Regiment of Foot
raised at Winchester
  1823 England
  1824 Malta
  1830 Ionian Islands
  1834 Ireland
  1838 Ceylon
  1847 China: Hong Kong
  1850 England
  1854 Crimea
  1856 England
  1856 Ireland
  1857 India
  1857 Sepoy rebellion
  1858 India
  1870 England
  1876 Ireland
  1880 England
  1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)
  1881 England: Aldershot  
  1882.01 Gibraltar  
  1882.07 Egypt  
  1882.10 India: Lucknow  
  1888 Sikkim  
  1888 India: Lucknow  
  <1892> India: Umballa  
  <1894> Solon  
  <1897> Sitapore  
  1897.06 Tirah
  1898.04 Sittapore  
  1898 Aden  
  1899 Malta  
  1902 2nd Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
  1902 England: Parkhurst
  1904 England: Aldershot
  1907 Ireland: Kinsale
  1909 Fermoy
  1910 England: Plymouth
  1913 Sheffield
  1914.09 France and Flanders 6 Div
  1919 UK
  1922 Egypt
  1922 Turkey Army of Occupation
  1922 India
  1922 NW Frontier: Gharial
  1927 Karachi
  1930 Multan
  1933 Bombay
  1934 Sudan & Cyprus
  1936 Channel Islands: Guernsey
  1939 England: Aldershot 3 Bde
  1939.09 France & Belgium 1 Inf Div, BEF
  1940.06 UK
  1943.03 North Africa : Tunisia 3 Bde, 1 Inf Div
  1943.12 Italy
  1945.02 Palestine
  1947 Germany
  1948.08.15 amalgamated with 1st Battalion
  1952.01.31 re-formed at Colchester
  1952.01 England: Colchester  
  1952.01 Germany BAOR
  1955? England: Derby  
  1955.12.31 disbanded (PSA) at Derby