Authors and Contributors this page:
Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
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Page created
1 March 2001.
Corrected and updated
26.10.2005
Disclaimers
1st Battalion,
64th Regiment of Foot
1756-1881
1st Battalion,
The North Staffordshire Regiment
1881-1959
United Kingdom
Note:
This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
Colour Key
Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
1756.12.10
2nd Battalion,
11th Regiment of Foot
raised at Southampton
1757
England
1758.04.21
64th Regiment of Foot
1759
West Indies
1759
Guadeloupe
1763
Ireland
1768
at sea
1769.01
Massachusetts: Boston
1775
American revolution
1779
at sea
1779.12
South Carolina: Charleston
1779.12
American revolution
: southern campaign
1782.10
at sea (embarked at
Charleston)
1782
West Indies
1783
Jamaica
1783
England
1787
Ireland
1793
West Indies
1795
England
1795
Gibraltar
1796
Ireland
1800
England
1801
West Indies
1802
West Indies
1802
West Indies
1804
Surinam
1813
Barbados
1813
Canada
1813
American war
: Canadian frontier
1815
France: Paris
Army of Occupation
1816
England
1818
Gibraltar
1827
Ireland
1834
Jamaica
1840
Canada
1843
England
1845
Ireland
1848
India
1856
Persia
1857
India
1861
England: Dover
1863
England: Aldershot
1864
Gosport
1865
Portsmouth
1866
Manchester
1867
Parkhurst
1867
Malta
1872
Ireland: Templemore
1875
Limerick
1874
Scotland: Glasgow
1875
England: Portsmouth
1877
England: Aldershot
1878
England: Colchester
1878
Jersey
1879
Ireland: Curragh
1881
Athlone
1881.07.01
1st Battalion,
The Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)
1883
England:
1884
West Indies: Barbados
1887
Natal
1890
Mauritius
1893
Malta
1895
Egypt
1896
Sudan
1897
India: Dagshai
1898
Subathu
1901
Bombay
1903
England: Lichfield
1906
England: Aldershot
1909
Shorncliffe
1912
Ireland: Buttevant
1914.09
France and Flanders
6 Div
1915.10
France and Flanders
24 Div
1919
Ireland: Curragh
1921.01.01
1st Battalion,
The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
1921
Gibraltar
1922
Turkey
Army of Occupation
1923.03
India: Secunderabad
1925
Presidency/Assam
1929
Nasirabad
1931
Madras
1933
Kemptee
1936
Trimulgherry
1939
Trimulgherry
1942.10
Burma
1943.09
India
1945
India
1947
reduced to cadre
1949.10.01
amalgamated in Egypt with
2nd Battalion
without change of title
1948
Middle East
1948
UK
1951
Trieste
1953.09
Korea
29 Inf Bde Gp
1954.11
China: Hong Kong
1957
Germany: Minden
1959.01.31
amalgamated with
1st Bn, The South Staffordshire Regiment
,
to form
1st Bn, The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)