Derbyshire Lads: The Sherwood Foresters: 18th Battalion

18th (Service) Battalion [Bantam]

The battalion was formed at Derby on 27 July 1915 as a Bantam battalion (consisting of men under the normally required height restrictions of the army). In October 1915 the battalion was attached to the 121st Brigade, 40th (Bantam) Division, which arrived in France in June 1916. Before that time however (in April) the battalion had ceased to exist, it's men being absorbed by the 13th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (The Green Howards). The 13th Green Howards would suffer 339 deaths before the armistice of November 1918, a number of these men originally being members of the 18th Sherwood Foresters.

Deaths (before absorbtion by 13th Green Howards):

DOGGETT, J, b. Crophill, Bedfordshire, e. Ilkeston, Derbyshire, r. Langley, Derbyshire, 28771, PRIVATE, Died, Home, 07/03/16, buried in BROOKWOOD CEMETERY, Surrey, United Kingdom, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), 18th Battalion.


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18th (Service) Battalion [Bantam] The battalion was formed at Derby on 27 July 1915 as a Bantam battalion (consisting of men under the normally required height restrictions of the army). In October 1915 the battalion was attached to the 121st Brigade, 40th (Bantam) Division, which arrived in France in June 1916. Before that time however (in April) the battalion had ceased to exist, it's men being absorbed by the 13th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (The Green Howards). The 13th Green Howards would suffer 339 deaths before the armistice of November 1918, a number of these men originally being members of the 18th Sherwood Foresters. Deaths (before absorbtion by 13th Green Howards): DOGGETT, J, b. Crophill, Bedfordshire, e. Ilkeston, Derbyshire, r. Langley, Derbyshire, 28771, PRIVATE, Died, Home, 07/03/16, buried in BROOKWOOD CEMETERY, Surrey, United Kingdom, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), 18th Battalion.