Herefordshire (6th) Rifle Volunteer Corps (Kelly, 1879)
Herefordshire 1st Rifle Volunteer Corps (F Company), Leominster (J&C, 1890)
F Company 1st Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers (Kelly, 1905)
F Company 1st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment, Territorial Force (Kelly, 1913)
ds 'C' Squadron Shropshire Yeomanry

Of Herefordshire (6th) Rifle Volunteer Corps, Kelly, 1879, noted, ‘The orderly room is at the Town Hall.’

Jakeman & Carver’s 1890 Directory of Hereford [J&C] records: ‘Herefordshire 1st Rifle Volunteer Corps (F Company), Leominster, Armoury and drill hall, New street.’ Five years previously, the Volunteers had an Orderly room at 28 Broad street, and an Armoury at the Town hall.

‘The old Borough Gaol, in New Street, built in 1750, is a structure of brick, now used as a drill hall by F Company of the 1st Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers.’ (Kelly, 1905) Eight years on, Kelly notes the change of title to ‘F Company of the 1st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment, Territorial Force.’ (1913)

A site visit in 2007 failed to determine whether the Old Borough Gaol is extant and we would be very grateful for any information.

We are very grateful to Andy Taylor, Assistant Curator of The Herefordshire Regimental Museum, for the interesting photographs of Herefordshire's Drill Halls around 1910.

We have photographed the premises used as the Orderly Room on Broad street.