NOTTS and DERBY SHERWOOD FORESTERS KC OR’s bi-metal cap badge Original

NOTTS and DERBY SHERWOOD FORESTERS KC OR’s bi-metal cap badge Original.
Usual ‘hook’ fixing, condition very good.
Reference John Gaylor ‘Military Badge Collecting’ page 24, Plate 12.

The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for just under 90 years, from 1881 to 1970. In 1970, the regiment was amalgamated with the Worcestershire Regiment to form the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, which in 2007 was amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s) to form the present Mercian Regiment. The lineage of the Sherwood Foresters is now continued by The Mercian Regiment.