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Watnall Troop cricket match - Mordecai, the mad Duke and Major Rolleston's promotion

Lady Maud To The Rescue...

Royalty, the Rollestons and the miner's cottage...

Epic poem to save the South Notts Hussars Band

The Flying Column - Capt. Rolleston & Sgt-Major Pilbeam on manoeuvres

Tales from the Boer War, "Colonel Rolleston is seriously wounded..."

Spooky connections - The grave of Sgt-Major Pilbeam and the graffiti-carved tree

Colourising Colonel Rolleston's dress uniform & medals

Colonel Sir Lancelot Rolleston - 175th birthday commemoration

Colonel Rolleston and the Battle of Mapperley Hills

Trooper Clark’s amazing swordsmanship prize…

Capt. Rolleston's tragedy and the burning of Nottingham Castle

Mr. Rolleston and the Pentrich Rebellion

Origins of the “Watnall Troop” of the South Notts Yeomanry

Joe Haywood and his pet fox