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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercian_Regiment Mercian Regiment] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercian_Regiment Mercian Regiment] Wikipedia<br>
*Details of the memorial at the [http://web.archive.org/web/20101006052038/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hutchfield/afghan-church.html  Afghan Church (St John’s) Colaba,  Bombay]  to Sergeants, Corporals, Privates, Women and Children of the 45th Regiment who died at Naamuah and Colaba between March 1865 and January 1866. Hutchfield family website, now archived.  
*Details of the memorial at the [http://web.archive.org/web/20101006052038/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hutchfield/afghan-church.html  Afghan Church (St John’s) Colaba,  Bombay]  to Sergeants, Corporals, Privates, Women and Children of the 45th Regiment who died at Naamuah and Colaba between March 1865 and January 1866. Hutchfield family website, now archived.  
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/rorysmith/3654799958/ Extract from England Census 1911 taken at Gough Barracks, Trimulgherry, Deccan, India]  1st Battalion  Sherwood Foresters [http://www.flickr.com/photos/rorysmith/3654799958/sizes/o/in/photostream Enlarged version] flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/rorysmith/3662838781/in/photostream Photograph 1912:  1st Btn Sherwood Foresters B Coy Shooting Team] . The Battalion was stationed in India. flickr.com
==== Historical Books on-line ====
==== Historical Books on-line ====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historythstnott00dalbgoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''History of the 45th: 1st Nottinghamshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)''] by  Philip Hugh Dalbiac  1902 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historythstnott00dalbgoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''History of the 45th: 1st Nottinghamshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)''] by  Philip Hugh Dalbiac  1902 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lkMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3  ''Rough notes by an old soldier during fifty years' service, Volume 1''] by George Bell (sir) 1867 Google Books. The author transferred to the 45th Regiment and [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lkMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA197 sailed for India in April 1825], page 197, and subsequently arrived in [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lkMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA217 Rangoon in November 1825] page 217, , see [[1st Burma War]]. After a few years he returned to England and changed regiments again. ([http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oEMBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 2])
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lkMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3  ''Rough notes by an old soldier during fifty years' service, Volume 1''] by George Bell (sir) 1867 Google Books. The author transferred to the 45th Regiment and [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lkMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA197 sailed for India in April 1825], page 197, and subsequently arrived in [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lkMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA217 Rangoon in November 1825] page 217, , see [[1st Burma War]]. After a few years he returned to England and changed regiments again. ([http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oEMBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 2])


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[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Revision as of 11:09, 18 January 2013

Also known as The Sherwood Foresters

History

  • 1741 raised as Daniel Houghton's Regiment of Foot
  • 1751 became the 45th Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 became the 45th (the Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 united with 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot to become 1st Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
  • 1902 became The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
  • 1970 amalgamated with The Worcestershire Regiment to form The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)
  • 2007 amalgamated with with The Cheshire Regiment and The Staffordshire Regiment to form The Mercian Regiment


External Links

Historical Books on-line