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The
South Staffordshire Regiment
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crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
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| 1881.07.01 | The
South Staffordshire Regiment organised as the county regiment of South Staffordshire , encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions: |
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| 1959.01.31 | amalgamated with The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's), to form The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) | |
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The South Staffordshire Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War). | |
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The South Staffordshire Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) | |
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| 38th Regimental District at Lichfield [1881-1905] | ||
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| K Group, at Oswestry [1946-1948] | ||
| Mercian Brigade, at Lichfield [1948-1959] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1881-1959] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1881-1948] | ||
| Militia and Special Reserve: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (King's Own (1st Staffordshire) Militia) [1881-1953] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1881-1953] | ||
| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
| 1st Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
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| 2nd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
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| 3rd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
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| 5th
Battalion [1908-1959] |
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| 6th Battalion [1908-1947]
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| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 2/5th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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| 5th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
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| 2/6th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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| 6th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 2/6th Battalion [1939-1947] |
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| 7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 7th Battalion [1939-1947] |
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| 8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 9th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers)
[1914-1919] |
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| 9th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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| 2/9th (Home Defence) Battalion
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| 10th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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| 10th Battalion [1940-1942] |
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| 11th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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| 11th Battalion [1940-1946] |
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| 12th (Labour) Battalion [1916-1917]
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| 12th Battalion [1940-1941] |
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| 13th Battalion [1940-1941] |
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| 14th Battalion [1940-1942] |
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| 15th Battalion [1940-1945] |
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| 16th (Home Defence) Battalion
[1940-1941] |
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| 30th Battalion [1941-1944] |
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| 31st Battalion [1941-1943] |
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| 50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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| 70th (Young Soldier) Battalion
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| 1st Garrison Battalion [1917-1920]
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| [combined
battle honours of 38th Regiment and
80th Regiment, plus:]
Guadeloupe 17591, Martinique 17621, South Africa 1878-92, Egypt 1882, Kirbekan, Nile 1884-85, South Africa 1900-02 The Great War [18 battalions]: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, Ypres 1914 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Ancre 1916, Bapaume 1917 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Bullecourt, Hill 70, Messines 1917 '18, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Lys, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916 The Second World War: Caen, Noyers, Falaise, Arnhem 1944, North-West Europe 1940 '44, Sidi Barrani, North Africa 1940, Landing in Sicily, Sicily 1943, Italy 1943, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944 5th, 6th Battalions: South Africa 1900-02 1. awarded
1909 for services of 38th Regiment. |
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| Uniform: | 1881-1935:
scarlet; facings: white 1935-1953: scarlet; facings: yellow 1953-1959: blue; facings: yellow; piping: yellow headdress: |
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| 1881 | [1st Bn:] Gen. James Pattoun Sparks, CB [also 95th Foot] | |
| 1881 | [2nd Bn:] Gen. Sir Richard Wilbraham, KCB [also R Fusiliers] | |
| 188u | [1st Bn:] Gen. Charles Elmhirst, CB [also Norfolk Regt] | |
| 188u | [2nd Bn:] Gen. Hon. Sir St. George Gerald Foley, KCB | |
| 1897.01.25 | Gen. John William Sidney Smith, CB [also Gloucestershire Regt] | |
| 1900.04.12 | Lt-Gen. Sir George Samuel Young, KCB [also R Sussex Regt] | |
| 1911.09.11 | Lt-Gen. Sir Charles Tucker, GCB, GCVO [also Cheshire Regt] | |
| 1935.12.03 | Maj-Gen. Percy Ryan Conway Commings, CB, CMG, DSO | |
| 1946.04.06 | Maj-Gen. Sir Guy de Courcy Glover, KBE, CB, DSO, MC | |
| 1954.11.11 | Maj-Gen. Alec Wilfred Lee, CB, MC [continued 1959 in Staffs Regt] | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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VCs in the Staffordshire Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
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Tom Drury and the South Staffordshire Regiment/Labour Corp [WW1], by Kevin Noble. | |
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| Anniversaries: | Arnhem (17 Sept.), Ferozeshah (21 Dec.) | |
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| Mascot: | Staffordshire Bull Terrier: 1st Bn took one with them to Egypt in 1882. | |
| Miscellaneous Tradition Links: | ||
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The Colchester and Hants Regiment |
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The North Nova Scotia Highlanders | 1936-1954 | |
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53rd Battalion (The West Sydney Regiment) | 1926-1951 | |
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38th Infantry Battalion (The Northern Victorian Regiment) | 1955-1959 | |
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Antigua Defence Force | 1956-1959 | |
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[no external sites have been found] | |
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Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Lichfield (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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South Staffordshire Regiments Memorial, Walsall Town Hall | |
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Museum of the Staffordshire Regiment, Lichfield (Simonides listing) | |
| Regimental Journal: | ||
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The Staffordshire knot. | |
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The knot. | |
| Full Histories: | ||
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Jones, James P. A history of The South Staffordshire regiment (1705-1923). Wolverhampton : Whitehead Brothers Ltd., 1923. | |
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Presenting The South Staffordshire Regiment. London : Malcolm Page, 1952. | |
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Vale, Walter Leonard. History of the South Staffordshire Regiment. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1969. ISBN: 0700100016 | |
| Short Histories: | ||
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A short history of The South Staffordshire Regiment. [s.l. : s.n., ca. 1922] | |
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Freer, William J. The Thirty-Eighth REgiment of Foot, now the First Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment. London : Harrison & Sons, 1915. [reprinted from: The British numismatic journal, v. 11] | |
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1st Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1936. | |
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Vale, Walter Leonard. A short history of The South Staffordshire Regiment. Wolverhampton : Whitehead Bros., 1949. | |
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The South Staffordshire Regiment, 1705-1955. Celebration of the 250th anniversary of the formation of the regiment. Saturday, 26th March 1955. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1955. | |
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The Staffordshire Regiment. Hemel Hempstead : Nexus Special Interests, 1995. (Regiment ; 7) | |
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The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's), 1705-2005. Wallington : Grenadier Publishing, 2005. (Regiment ; 63) | |
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Militia: |
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Wylly, C. H. (Charles Herbert). Historical records of the 1st King's Own Stafford Militia : now 3rd and 4th Battalions, South Staffordshire Regiment. Lichfield : A.C. Lomax, 1893. | |
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Wylly, C. H. (Charles Herbert) ; Charrington, F. ; Bulwer, E. A. E. ; Collas, W. J. J. Historical records of the 1st King's Own Stafford Militia : now 3rd and 4th Battalions, South Staffordshire Regiment. [new ed.] Lichfield : A.C. Lomax, 1902. | |
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Territorials/Volunteers: |
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The war history of the Sixth Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment (T.F.). London : W. Heinemann, Ltd., 1924. | |
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First World War: |
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Beauman, Archibald Bentley. With the 38th in France and Italy; being a record of the doings of the 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, from 26th September, 1916, to 26th May, 1918. Lichfield : A.C. Lomax's Successors (F.H. Bull & E. Wiseman), Printers, 1919. | |
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Anderson, A.L.K. The unbreakable coil. Wolverhampton : Whitehead Bros., 1923. [2nd Battalion] | |
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Ashcroft, A. H. (ed.) The history of the seventh South Staffordshire Regiment. London : Printed by Boyle, Son & Watchurst, Ltd, 1919. | |
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Second World War: |
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Duckworth, L. B. (ed.) Your men in battle; the story of South Staffordshire Regiment, 1939-1945. Wolverhampton : Published by the "Express & Star" in aid of the Arnhem Fund, 1945. | |
| Special Topics: | ||
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Rosignoli, Guido ; Whitehouse, C.J. The Staffords, 1881-1978 : badges and uniforms. Cannock : Rosignoli, 1978. | |
