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7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters
Active1859-1992
CountryRobin Hood Battalion United Kingdom
Branch Territorial Army
RoleInfantry
Air Defence
Part of139th (Sherwood Foresters) Brigade
Garrison/HQDerby Road, Nottingham
EngagementsWWI:
Hohenzollern Redoubt
Gommecourt
Hill 70
Third Ypres
Bourlon Wood
German spring offensive
Bailleul
WWII:
The Blitz
North West Europe
Decorations Croix de Guerre (Belgium)

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 as infantry during the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin and then served on the Western Front during World War I. In the 1930s it re-roled as an anti-aircraft unit and served in World War II, including North-western Europe from June 1944 to May 1945.

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