Young May Moon - Quick March of the Sherwood Foresters

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.

Performed by the Band of 1st Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment.

The photo is of The 2/6th Sherwood Foresters at Buxton in 1914.

[Sammy]

Young May Moon was also the unofficial march of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Royal Irish Constabulary before them.

[Cicero]

Does anyone know the origins of this tune? It seems so Irish to me but if a millitary band is using it, it must hace english origins, a lovely march either way, Sprig of Shillelagh is also lovely.