The History of the Volunteer Troops in Hertfordshire has been very well documented by J.D. Sainsbury in the following books:

 

Hertfordshire Soldiers from 1757
The Hertfordshire Regiment
Guide to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
The Hertfordshire Yeomanry
The Hertfordshire Batteries Royal Field Artillery

Hertfordshire Yeomanry & Artillery Uniforms, Arms and Equipment
A Biographical List of Officers of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry
Herts V. R.

 

The following pages on this web site contain pictures or other information which deals with the various Hertfordshire Volunteer Units over the centuries:

 

The Beds & Herts Regiment

 

The 16th Foot

 

The Beech Bottom Shooting Range (1860s)

 

Volunteer Camp, Ashridge Park, August 1905

 

Herts Yeomanry at Berkhamsted, May 1906

 

Military Camps, Hertfordshire Units, 1908-1913

 

Shooting Match on Sandridge Rifle Range (1907)

 

Territorial Force in Hertfordshire

The Hertfordshire Regiment with Colours in 1909

RFA at Lydd 1909

Herts Regiment at Royston?

Fragments from an Old Photo Album (1913/4)

Military Camps, Ashridge Park, July 1914

 

The Summer Camp at Ashridge

 

The Outbreak of War

 

Herts Yeomanry go to War

 

Herts Gunners go to War

 

Herts Infantry march away

 

Meanwhile more local men joined up

... and back came the wounded

... and news of the dead

 

Enlistment in the First World War

 

Twenty Two Months under Fire

We're Going Right There

The Hertfordshire Regiment in the 1920s

The Beds & Herts Regiment at Aldershot (1920s?)

D-Day to Arnham with Herts Gunners

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