The Worcestershire Regiment dates back to 1694 when Colonel Thomas Farrington, an officer of the Coldstream Guards raised a new regiment in London. It was then the custom for Regiments to be named after their Colonels, and this new Regiment was named Farrington’s Regiment of Foot. This method of naming regiments led to confusion, as regiments were re-named with each Colonel, and it was possible for more than one Colonel, and therefore more than one regiment, to have the same name.
Until 1751, the Regiment had eight different Colonels, and therefore eight different names. In 1751 regiments were given numbers, and the Regiment was numbered 29.
The Worcestershire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot and the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot.
After service in the First and Second World Wars, it was amalgamated into The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) in 1970.
"I am looking for information about my Grandad "George Albert Nicholls" who was in the South Staffordshire Regiment/1st Worcestershire Regiment during the second world war. He fought in Africa (Palestine, Sudan, Libya) and was captured by Rommel in at Tubruk in June of 1942 and taken to a prison camp first in Italy and then to STALAG 4 DZ Germany until the end of the war."
"Clearing up and lookinh for Dacoits by unit transport in bullock carts for arrival first light to certail villages.Working with Burma Police.Anything running out ot the village was shot! i.e.Japs or Escaped Prisoners . Cross the Irawaddy to the Titsiengi area!! Speling!!!!!"
Forces Reunited Forum Posts involving Worcestershire Regiment
" Quoting: lloyd burton Look at it realisticly,lots of regiments in England have been amalgamated for years, the Royal Leicestershire regt., the Sherwood foresters, the Northampton shire regt. etc. have all been formed into the "Royal Anglian Regt," Their battle honours have moved with them, ..."
" Quoting: Alan Derbyshire lloyd, Just to put the record straight, the Sherwood Foresters did not form part of the Royal Anglian Regiment. In 1970 they amalgamated with the Worcestershire Regiment to become the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters (1WFR). In 2007 they are to "merge" with ..."
" My grandfather served in the 3rd Bat Worcestershire Regiment, and was K in A 13 October 1914. I have only recently been able to photograph his headstone in the military cemetory here in France.I have the original notice sent by his Colonel to my gran. Its sad that my local regiment is ..."
" The remains of some 400 British and Australian soldiers from the First World War are to be exhumed from a battlefield in France and given individual burials. The excavation of 6 mass graves in Fromelles will begin in May after the sites were discovered by archaeologists last year. The ..."
"I am looking for information about my Grandad "George Albert Nicholls" who was in the South Staffordshire Regiment/Worcestershire Regiment during the second world war. He fought in Africa (Palestine, Sudan) and was captured by Rommel in about 1942 and taken to a prison camp first in Italy and then in Germany until the end of the war. "
"I am looking for information about my Grandad "George Albert Nicholls" who was in the South Staffordshire Regiment/1st Worcestershire Regiment during the second world war. He fought in Africa (Palestine, Sudan, Libya) and was captured by Rommel in at Tubruk in June of 1942 and taken to a prison camp first in Italy and then to STALAG 4 DZ Germany until the end of the war."
