Great Britain
Military Badge 1930-50 Bronze Badge Medal 39mm x 45mm
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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.
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is an island in the North Atlantic off the north-west coast of continental Europe. With an area of 209,331 km2 (80,823 sq mi), it is the largest island in Europe and the ninth-largest in the world. In 2011 the island had a population of about 61 million people, making it the third-most populous island in the world, after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. The island is the largest in the British Isles archipelago, which also includes the island of Ireland to its west and over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands.
The island is dominated by an oceanic climate with quite narrow temperature differences between seasons. Politically, the island is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constituting most of its territory: most of England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island, with their respective capital cities, London, Edinburgh, and Cardiff. The term Great Britain often extends to include surrounding islands that form part of England, Scotland, and Wales.
A single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the Union of Scotland and England (which already comprised the present-day countries of England and Wales) in 1707. More than a hundred years before, in 1603, King James VI, King of Scots, had inherited the throne of England, but it was not until 1707 that the Parliaments of the two countries agreed to form a unified state. In 1801, Great Britain united with the neighboring Kingdom of Ireland, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the Irish Free State seceded in 1922.
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