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Note:This
is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental
page for full lineage and other information.
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Colour Key
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| 1688.12.11 | Sir John Guise's Regiment of Foot | ||
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| 1692 | Martinique | ||
| Jamaica | |||
| England | |||
| 1694 | disbanded in England | ||
| 1694.12.24 | Luke
Lillingston's Regiment of Foot re-formed |
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| 1697 | disbanded in West Indies | ||
| 1702.02.13 | Luke
Lillingston's Regiment of Foot re-formed at Lichfield |
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| 1705 | Ireland | ||
| 1707 | at sea | service as marines | |
| 1710 | West Indies: Antigua | ||
| 1714 | West Indies: Antigua | ||
| 1739 | West Indies | ||
| 1750 | West Indies: Antigua | ||
| 1751.07.01 | 38th Regiment of Foot | ||
| 1756 | West Indies | ||
| 1763 | West Indies: Antigua | ||
| 1764 | Ireland | ||
| 1774.07 | Massachusetts: Boston | ||
| 1775 | American revolution | ||
| 1783 | at sea (embarked at New York) | ||
| 1783 | Nova Scotia | ||
| England | |||
| 1790 | Ireland | ||
| 1794 | West Indies (flank coys) | ||
| 1794 | Flanders (bn coys) | ||
| 1796 | West Indies: Barbados (regt reunited) | ||
| 1796 | West Indies: St. Lucia | ||
| 1797 | Saintes Islands | ||
| 1800 | England: Lichfield | ||
| 1801 | Ireland | ||
| 1804.08.01 | 1st
Battalion, 38th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1806 | Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 1806 | South America | ||
| 1807 | Ireland | ||
| 1808.07 | Portugal | ||
| 1808 | Peninsular war | ||
| 1809.01 | at sea (embarked at Corunna) | ||
| 1809 | England | ||
| 1809.07 | Walcheren | ||
| 1809 | Ireland | ||
| 1812 | Portugal | ||
| 1812 | Peninsular war | ||
| 1812.12.06 | absorbed 2nd Battalion, less cadre of latter sent home to re-form | ||
| 1814.04 | France | ||
| 1814.05 | at sea (embarked at Bordeaux) | ||
| 1814 | Ireland | ||
| 1814 | 38th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1815.07? | Belgium: Ostend | ||
| 1815 | France: Paris | Army of Occupation | |
| 1815? | England | ||
| 1818 | South Africa | ||
| 1819 | Kaffir war | ||
| 1822 | India | ||
| 1824 | Burma | ||
| 1826 | India: Bengal | ||
| 1836 | England | ||
| 1837 | Ireland | ||
| 1840 | Ionian Islands | ||
| 1841 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1845 | Jamaica | ||
| 1848 | Nicaragua (300 men) | ||
| 1848 | Nova Scotia: Halifax | ||
| 1851 | England: Chester | ||
| 1854.04 | at sea | ||
| 1854 | Crimea | 3 Div | |
| 1856.06 | Ireland | ||
| 1857.08 | at sea | ||
| 1857 | India | ||
| 1857 | Sepoy rebellion | ||
| 1859 | India: Bengal | ||
| 1868 | Black Mountain expedition | Hazara Field Force | |
| 1871 | England | ||
| 1877 | Ireland | ||
| 1880 | Malta | ||
| 1881.07.01 | 1st Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment | ||
| 1882 | Egypt | ||
| 1883 | Malta | ||
| 1885 | Sudan | ||
| 1886 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1891 | Egypt | ||
| 1893 | England: Aldershot | ||
| <1895> | Lichfield | ||
| 1898 | Ireland: Kinsale | ||
| 1900.04 | South Africa | ||
| 1904 | Ireland: Curragh | ||
| 1906 | England: Bordon | ||
| 1911 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1913 | South Africa | ||
| 1914.10 | France and Flanders | 7 Div | |
| 1917.11 | Italy | 91 Bde, 7 Div | |
| 1918.11 | Italy | ||
| 1919 | Singapore | ||
| 1921 | Burma: Maymyo | ||
| 1925 | Bombay | ||
| 1927 | Sudan | ||
| 1929 | England: Lichfield | ||
| 1932 | Blackdown | 6 Bde | |
| 1938 | Palestine | ||
| 1940 | Middle East | Corps Troops | |
| 1942.02 | Middle East | 70 Inf Div | |
| 1943.09 | Burma | LRP | |
| 1945.03.1-22 | 16th
(South Staffordshire) Battalion, The
Parachute Regiment converted to para role at Rawalpindi |
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| 1945.03 | India | ||
| 1945.04.18 | 16th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment | ||
| 1945.03 | India | ||
| 1948.07.26 | 1st
Battalion, The
South Staffordshire Regiment converted back to infantry and amalgamated with 2nd Battalion |
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| 1948 | UK | ||
| 1949 | Hong Kong | ||
| 1951 | Northern Ireland | ||
| 1952 | Germany: Göttingen | 91 Bde | |
| 1954 | Egypt | ||
| 1955.08 | Cyprus | ||
| 1957.02 | Germany: Lüneburg | ||
| 1959.01.31 | amalgamated with 1st Bn, The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's), to form 1st Bn, The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) | ||
