Great Britain

The Worcestershire Regiment

The Sherwood Foresters

	Kingdom of England
1694:	Thomas Farrington’s Regiment of Foot │	Viscount Charlemont’s Regiment of Foot │
1698:	disbanded	disbanded
1701:		Viscount Charlemont’s Regiment of Foot │
1702:	Thomas Farrington’s Regiment of Foot │	│ │ │
1706:	│ │	Thomas Alnutt’s │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
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1709:	│ │	Duke of Argyll’s │
1710:	│ │	Henry Disney’s │
1712:	Mark Kerr’s │	│ │
1715:	│ │	William Egerton’s │
1719:	│ │	Charles Hotham’s │
1720:	│ │	John Pocock’s │
1721:	│ │	Charles Lenoe’s │
1725:	Henry Disney’s │	│ │
1731:	Earl of Albemarle’s │	│ │
1732:	│ │	John Moyle’s │
1733:	George Raede’s │	│ │
1737:	│ │	Humphrey Bland’s │
1739:	Francis Fuller’s │	│ │
1741:	│ │ │	James Fleming’s │ │	Daniel Houghton’s Regiment of Foot │
1745:	│ │	│ │	Hugh Warburton’s │
1747:	ranked as 29th Foot │	ranked as 36th Foot │	ranked as 56th Foot │
1748:	Peregrine Thomas Hopson’s │	│ │	│ │
1751:	│ │	Lord Robert Manners’s │	│ │
1751:	29th Regiment of Foot │	36th Regiment of Foot │	45th Regiment of Foot │
1756:	│ │	2nd Bn raised │	│ │
1758:	│ │	2nd Bn → 74th Foot │	│ │
	│ │	│ │	│ │
1782:	29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot │	36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot │	45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot │
1795:	2nd Bn raised │	│ │	│ │
1796:	2nd Bn disbanded │	│ │	│ │
1800:	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn raised │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1802:	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │
1804:	│ │	2nd Bn raised │	│ │
1814:	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │	│ │
1823:	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │	95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot │
1842:	│ │	│ │	Reserve Bn raised │	│ │
1850:	│ │	│ │	Reserve Bn disbanded │	│ │
1866:	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │	95th (The Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot │
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	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	1st Bn,	2nd Bn,	1st Bn,	2nd Bn,
			The Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) │
	The Worcestershire Regiment		The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
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1883:	│		│
1890:	│		│
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1900:	3rd Bn and 4th Bn raised │		│ │
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1902:	│ │		The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
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1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1922:	4th Bn disbanded │		│ │
1923:	3rd Bn disbanded │		│ │
1925:	│ │		│ │
1948:	2nd Bn disbanded │		2nd Bn disbanded │
1948:	part of The Mercian Brigade │		part of The Midland Brigade │
1952:	│ │		2nd Bn raised │
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1955:	│ │		2nd Bn disbanded │
1958:	│ │		brigade renamed in The Forester Brigade
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1963:	│ │		transferred to The Mercian Brigade
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1968:	part of The Prince of Wales’s Division │		part of The Prince of Wales’s Division │
1970:	1st Battalion, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)
	│
2007:	2nd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters)
	│
2014:	2nd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffordshire) │
2022:	disbanded