The Worcestershire Regiment

The Sherwood Foresters

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
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


29th-Foot

36th-Foot

45th-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
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

29th Foot
36th Foot
45th Foot
95th Foot
29th Foot
36th 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)
Worcestershire
Derbyshire
1883: Worcestershire
layout
1890: Worcestershire
layout
Worcesters
Derbyshire
1900: 3rd Bn and 4th Bn raised

layout
Derbyshire
1902:
The Sherwood Foresters
(Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
layout
Notts-Derby
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Foresters
1922: 4th Bn disbanded

1923: 3rd Bn disbanded

1925: Worcesters

layout

1948: 2nd Bn disbanded
2nd Bn disbanded
1948:
part of
The Mercian Brigade
part of
The Midland Brigade
1952:
2nd Bn raised
layout
Foresters
1955:
2nd Bn disbanded
1958:
brigade renamed in
The Forester Brigade
Mercian
Forester
1963:
transferred to
The Mercian Brigade
layout
Mercian
1968:
part of
The Prince of Wales’s Division
part of
The Prince of Wales’s Division
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1970: 1st Battalion,
The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
(29th/45th Foot)
WSFR
2007: 2nd Battalion,
The Mercian Regiment
(Worcesters and Foresters)
MERCIAN
2014: 2nd Battalion,
The Mercian Regiment
(Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffordshire)