Bob, its a weird world. No sooner had I sent that reply mentioning the Sherwood Foresters than I found when looking at the British Newspaper Archive BETA site a mention of The Sherwood Yeomanry Cavalry. The article seem to indicate a member of my Greatorex family at odds with his unit and sentenced to 21 days hard labour as a result. So their was a unit of that name, this being October 1896 but no doubt played a part in WW1. Mike Greatorex Harrogate, England Looking for all Greatorex's from North Nottinghamshire, Sheffield, Orange Co, NY, USA, Florida and Alabamha, USA. http://www.freewebs.com/greatorexfamily/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "rjngs" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [NTT] Ancestry WW1 records > > I tried looking for my grandfather's WW1 records (William Jennings of > Retford, b. 1886). > He served, and survived, in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. > There does not seem to be any records at all from the Sherwood Rangers > Yeomanry. > Does that mean that the whole set have been lost , or that they have > another > name? > > Bob.

Hi Mike The units existence was not in question, its been around a long time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Rangers_Yeomanry I just haven't found a William JENNINGS that served in them Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Bob, its a weird world. No sooner had I sent that reply mentioning the > Sherwood Foresters than I found when looking at the British Newspaper > Archive BETA site > a mention of The Sherwood Yeomanry Cavalry. The article seem to indicate a > member > of my Greatorex family at odds with his unit and sentenced to 21 days hard > labour as a result. > > So their was a unit of that name, this being October 1896 but no doubt > played a > part in WW1. > > Mike Greatorex