• The Robin Hood Battalion was a unit of the Volunteer Force of the British Army and Territorial Force, later the Territorial Army. The battalion served...
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    Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema. According...
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  • Reserve) battalions respectively. These were joined by the 1st and 2nd (Derbyshire) and the 3rd (Robin Hood) and 4th (Nottinghamshire) Volunteer battalions. Following...
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  • 42nd Battalion may refer to: 42nd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, a unit of the Confederate States Army Robin Hood Battalion, (42nd (The Robin Hoods, Sherwood...
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    the headquarters of the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters and was completed around 1910. The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall...
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  • 2/7th (Robin Hood) Battalions were effectively merged to form the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion. Within three months, the reconstituted battalion had suffered...
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    identity as rifle units. Examples included the Robin Hood Rifles, which was to become the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and...
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    Colonel of the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (later 42nd (The Robin Hoods, Sherwood Foresters) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers)...
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  • attaining the rank of second lieutenant in the 1st Nottinghamshire (Robin Hood) battalion on 12 March 1892, then lieutenant on 23 June 1894, and captain on...
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    British soldiers had landed at Dún Laoghaire and that the Robin Hood Battalion, the 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, was heading towards them. The advancing...
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    Battalion, Sherwood Foresters Captain Geoffrey Vickers, 1/7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters United Kingdom portal List of British divisions...
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    the outbreak of the First World War, Ball enlisted in the 2/7th (Robin Hood) Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)...
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    Foresters Militia) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, from 1889 and its Special Reserve successor from 1908, and of the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters...
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    in the Robin Hood Rifles in 1881 which became the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters, taking over command of the Battalion on 31 July...
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    service in the army. Geoffrey joined the Sherwood Foresters (7th Robin Hood Battalion) and was in France before the end of 1914 first as a second lieutenant...
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    August 1914, Ball enlisted in the British Army, joining the 2/7th (Robin Hood) Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)...
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  • the regiment was assigned to 29 Engineer Brigade. It sponsored the Robin Hood Battalion cadre, 1969-71. In 1991 the regiment was re-organized to become 73...
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  • "I will Sing of the Mercies of the Lord". He was a member of the Robin Hood Battalion from 7 April 1860 to 30 March 1878, ending up as captain. He married...
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    Forest, Nottinghamshire, England. According to local folklore, it was Robin Hood's shelter where he and his merry men slept. It weighs an estimated 23 tons...
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    in Bailey Street, Old Basford. He spent about 37 years with the Robin Hood Battalion which he joined in 1864 as a cadet. He retired with the rank of Lieut-Colonel...
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    from the original on 5 January 2006. Retrieved 5 January 2006. "Robin Hood Battalion at Regiments.org". Archived from the original on 27 December 2005...
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    traditions of 6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters 115 (Leicestershire) Field Park Squadron at Leicester – former R Battery from 350 (The Robin Hood Foresters)...
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    reunited the Robin Hood team in The Sword and the Rose (1953), with Todd as Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. It was not as popular as Robin Hood in the...
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  • brigade was composed of four Volunteer battalions of the Sherwood Foresters: the 5th (Derbyshire), 6th, 7th (Robin Hood Rifles) and 8th. King George V inspected...
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    Division and 30th Division. 2/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters 2/6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters 2/7th Robin Hood Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (absorbed...
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    a crowd of several thousand people with a parade by the Robin Hood Battalion (7th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters). The memorial was later adapted to commemorate...
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    Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) Yeomanry 1st Nottinghamshire (Robin Hood) Volunteer Rifle Corps (VRC) Artists' Rifles The Liverpool Scottish Home...
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  • to Captain Albert Ball VC in Nottingham Castle 1921 Memorial to Robin Hood Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters in the chancel of St Mary's Church, Nottingham...
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    A Steinke hood, named for its inventor, Lieutenant Harris Steinke, is a device designed to aid escape from a sunken submarine. In essence, it is an inflatable...
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  • 27–9; 64–5. Anon, Robin Hoods, pp. 417–27. Anon, Robin Hoods, pp. 431–3. Bradbridge, p. 29. Anon, Robin Hoods, pp. 437–40. Anon, Robin Hoods, pp. 268–9. "David...
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