DERBY MUSEUM

The Military Gallery housing the Sherwood Foresters Collection is undergoing refurbishment in the near future in conjunction with the 9/12 Lancers, Derby City Council and Heritage Lottery funding.

Mrs Shaw presenting Private Mainwairing's Bugle to Major (Retired) Hackett Curator of the Museum

WW1 Bugle Donated to Museum

The bugle of Private Thomas Mainwaring of Ashbourne who was killed in action on 27 September 1918, being presented by his niece Mrs Trilby Shaw at the WFR and Sherwood Foresters War Memorial in Crich Derbyshire.
Private Mainwairing 2/6 Bn The Sherwood Foresters

Private Mainwairing joined the 2nd/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters in November 1914 as a bugler. He told his Commander that the standard issue bugle was not good enough for a trained musician and obtained permission to take his own.

When his Battalion was fighting near Ypres he found a German Bugle and on his death, both were returned to his family. The German Bugle was donated by Mrs Shaw to the Museum in 2001

 

 

Uniform and Artefacts of the 95th Derbyshire Regiment

 

Derbyshire Volunteers and Militia

 
Soldier of The Sherwood Foresters circa 1890 standing in the original sentry box from Normanton Barracks

 

 

The Sherwood Foresters - Original Sentry Box from Normanton Barracks Derby

 
Display of artefacts that belonged to Sergeant Harry Ford DCM MM The Sherwood Foresters Regiment. Killed in Action 24 September 1918 at Pontruet, France

201919 Sergeant Harry Ford DCM MM

Case contains artefacts of Sergeant Reginald Harry FORD DCM MM who was Killed in Action on 24 September 1918 at Pontruet, France.
General Sir Horace L Smith-Dorrien GCB GCMG DSO Colonel The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) 1905-1930

 

General Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrien GCB GCMG DSO Colonel The Sherwood Foresters
1905 - 1930

 
Artefacts of the 95th Derbyshire Regiment in the Crimea

 

 

 

 

The 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment in the Crimea

 
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