British Gallantry Awards - The Sherwood Foresters 1854 - 1970

This is probably the most unique record of any regiment, for it provides information with many photographs on every gallantry winner of the 45th and 95th The Sherwood Foresters from 1854, when gallantry medals came into being, to 1970 when the regiment was amalgamated with the Worcestershire Regiment. It covers the VC, DSO, MC, DCM and MM. London Gazette dates are shown as are almost 90% of the citations to the awards.

A hard back A4 of 200 pages with a number of colour plates. Price: GBP £20 + £5.50 P&P (UK only - overseas postage on request) Available from RHQ MERCIAN (Nottingham), Foresters House, Chetwynd Barracks, Chilwell, Nottingham NG9 5HA - Cheques payable to Crich Memorial Tower Fund

Two Long Eatonians have written a book charting tales of heroism and bravery by Derby soldiers.

Cliff Housley the Regimental Historian has co-written the book with Justin Leivars about the 12th (Pioneer) Battalion Sherwood Foresters 1914-1918 covering from formation in Derby to the end of the Great War.

Price: GBP £13.00

Available from Miliquest Publications, 83 Draycott Road, Sawley, Long Eaton, Derbyshire NG10 3BL

MEN OF THE HIGH PEAK' A History of the Men of the 1/6th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters 1914 - 1918

The original history was compiled by Captain W D Jamieson, with the help of several other sub-editors, some time after the Great War of 1914-18. They collected together the memories of a large number of Officers, NCOs and Men and from these pieced together the War-time Service of the Battalion.

The majority of the original letters and extracts of memories used in the compilation of this history are held in the Regimental Museum archives along with 2 of the original copies of the book of which only 25 copies were produced in the 1920's.

An A5 paper-back of 138 pages Price: GBP £12 + £2 P&P (UK only - overseas postage on request)

Available from RHQ MERCIAN (Nottingham), Foresters House, Chetwynd Barracks, Chilwell, Nottingham NG9 5HA - Cheques payable to Sherwood Foresters Museum Fund

First Contact - History of the 8th Bn Sherwood Foresters 1939-45

This history details the movements and actions of the 8th Battalion which served in the ill-fated Norway expedition of 1940. It pulls no punches in explaining what happened to the Battalion which was landed without its equipment, ammunition and much of its food on a foreign shore in deep winter. That many of the men survived to fight another day is nothing short of a miracle.

An A5 paper back book of 106 pages Price: GBP £10 + £2 P&P (UK only - overseas postage on request)

Available from RHQ MERCIAN (Nottingham), Foresters House, Chetwynd Barracks, Chilwell, Nottingham NG9 5HA - Cheques payable to Crich Memorial Tower Fund

A new publication which will benefit those researching their family history. The book is entitled "Researching British Military History on the Internet - The British Army and the Armies of the Commonwealth, Empire and Dominions". It is an excellent guidebook for researching our military ancestors, their regiments and the battles they fought and other research themes.

The book is competitively priced at GBP £12.50 + p&p (the p&p for one copy to the UK mainland is GBP £1.50). The ISBN is 978-0-9554136-0-5 (13 digit) or ISBN 0-9554136-0-5 (10 digit) and it is available from the publishers Alwyn Enterprises Ltd, Tel +44-(0)7766-209477 Post: PO Box 356, Paignton, Devon, TQ3 1WZ, United Kingdom, or most good bookshops

SOLDIER, POET, REBEL
THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF CHARLES HUDSON VC
By
Miles Hudson
Published by Sutton Publishing Ltd Stroud, Glos. October 2007
Hard Back, £19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7509-4436-6

In this compelling biography, Hudson's surviving son, Miles skilfully interweaves his own narrative insight with his father's wartime journals and other unpublished material including detailed personal descriptions of the Somme and other actions.

Charles Hudson was one of the most decorated British Soldiers of the First World War. He earned his medals in the thick of the fighting on the Western Front and, aged just 24, commanded a Battalion of The Sherwood Foresters in the Ypres Salient in 1917. He won his VC on the Asiago Plateau in Italy, 1918. Forced at the end of the war to revert to 2IC of a Company, against orders he went to North Russia to join the British Forces fighting the Bolsheviks at Archangel. In the Second World War he commanded a Brigade in France.

This book is available from the publishers jfenn@npi-mediagroup.com