page_title: Sherwood Foresters
section_title: Regular Army
hierarchical_section_title: Sherwood Foresters / History / First World War / Regular Army
caption_attribution_description: English: The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916 Bomb carrying party of the 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire &amp; Derbyshire Regiment) going up to the front line at La Boisselle, 6th July 1916.
context_page_description: The Sherwood Foresters was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for just under 90 years, from 1881 to 1970. In 1970, the regiment was amalgamated with the Worcestershire Regiment to form the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, which in 2007 was amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Staffordshire Regiment to form the present Mercian Regiment. The lineage of the Sherwood Foresters is now continued by The Mercian Regiment.
context_section_description: The 1st battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 24th Brigade in the 8th Division in November 1914 for service on the Western Front.
  The 2nd battalion landed at Saint-Nazaire as part of 18th Brigade in the 6th Division in September 1914 also for service on the Western Front.
caption: Bomb carrying party of the 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters going up to the front line at La Boisselle, France, 6 July 1916.
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