95th Regiment of Foot

Chronology

• 1816 formed as the 95th Regiment of Foot when the 95th Rifles were redesignated The Rifle Brigade
• 1832 became 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 united with the 45th Regiment of Foot to form the Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) and became 2nd Battalion
• 1958 became part of the Forester Brigade
• 1963 became part of the Mercian Brigade
• 1970 amalgamated with The Worcestershire Regiment to form The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot).
• 2004 amalgamated to become 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment

FIBIS resources

Andrew Rippin Collection of photographs of the 2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment

External Links

• 95th (Derbyshire) Foot Wikipedia
  
• Sherwood Foresters Wikipedia
  
• Worcester & Sherwood Foresters Wikipedia
  
• Mercian Regiment Wikipedia
  
• The Sherwood Foresters Regiment A History by Stephen Mee
  
• 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot; The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) including 2nd Battalion deployments Regiments.org (an archived site)
  
• Sherwood Foresters British Armed Forces & National Service. Includes deployments
• The Museum of the Mercian Regiment
  • 45th and 95th Regiments Museum collection
  • Regimental Archives
• The 95th Regiment In Ceylon 1838-1847 “Moss Valley”. Retrieved 28 August 2014

Historical books online

• The 95th (The Derbyshire) Regiment in Central India [1857-59] by Julius Raines 1900 Archive.org. The Derbyshire Campaign Series No. 2.
• The 2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment in the Sikkim Expedition of 1888 by Herbert Augustus Iggulden 1900 Archive.org. The Derbyshire Campaign Series No. 4.
• The 2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment in Tirah by Captain A K Slessor 1900 Archive.org. The Derbyshire Campaign Series No. 5.

The other books in this Campaign Series are The 95th (the Derbyshire) Regiment in the Crimea 1899 (No.1) and The 2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment in Egypt, 1882 (No.3) 1899 and 1914 editions.

• A varied life: a record of military and civil service, of sport and of travel in India, Central Asia and Persia 1849 -1902 by Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon. 1906 Archive.org. He initially served in the British Army with the 61st Regiment of Foot, with the 52nd (briefly), became on attachment, 2nd in command, and then in command, of the 7th Punjab Infantry, Bengal Army for approximately 20 months, during the Indian Mutiny, on active service near Cawnpore, was then with the 25th (in England) and exchanged into the 95th Regiment of Foot in order to return to India, which he did in in 1860, appointed to the Indian Army Indian Staff Corps 1862.
• Standing Orders. 95th The Derbyshire Regiment 1856 Google Books
• Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War: Regimental Histories Histories of some of the Great War Battalions are available to download. derbyshireterritorials.uk
• Breaking the Hindenburg line : the story of the 46th (North Midland) Division [in the First World War] by Major R E Priestley 1919 Archive.org