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The North Staffordshire Regiment 
(Prince of Wales's)

The Antecedent Regiments

The Raising of a Regiment

The Seven Years War 
(1756-63) 

The American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783)

County Affiliation

The Napoleonic Wars

Four decades of peace

The 98th Regiment of Foot

The Far East and India (1842 - 1851)

Diminishing Strength

The 64th in the 19th Century

Shipwreck

India

The Cardwell Reforms

The Prince of Wales

The Childers Reforms

The Victoria Cross

The Regular Battalions (1881-1914): 
Garrison Duties

South Africa 1900-1902

The Haldane Reforms

The new TF Battalions

The Regular Battalions (1881-1914): 
Active Service

The 1911 Census Returns

Soldier's Places of Birth

Soldiers born in the West Midlands

Soldiers born in Staffordshire

Soldiers born in the South East

Soldiers born elsewhere in England

Soldiers born elsewhere in the UK

Soldiers born outside of Britain and Ireland

The Great War

The Regular Battalions in 1914

The Territorial Force in 1914

The 'New Army'

The North Staffs New Army Battalions

The Expansion of the TF 
(1914-1915)

1st Battalion The Prince of Wales’s 
(North Staffordshire Regiment)

2nd Battalion The Prince of Wales’s 
(North Staffordshire Regiment)

3rd (Reserve) Battalion The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)

4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)

1st/5th Bn (TF) The Prince of Wales’s 
(North Staffordshire Regiment)

1st/6th Bn (TF) The Prince of Wales’s 
(North Staffordshire Regiment)

2nd/5th Bn (TF) The Prince of Wales’s 
(North Staffordshire Regiment)

2nd/6th Bn (TF) The Prince of Wales’s 
(North Staffordshire Regiment)


The 3rd/5th Bn (TF) and 3rd/6th (TF) Bns 
The Prince of Wales’s 
(North Staffordshire Regiment)

The 7th (Service) Bn The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)

The 8th (Service) Bn The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)

The 9th (Service) Bn (Pioneers) 
The Prince of Wales’s 
(North Staffordshire Regiment)

The 12th (Service) Bn The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)

Miscellaneous Battalions

First World War Battle Honours

Breaking the Hindenburg Line

The Regular Battalions 
1919-1939 

Change of Regimental Title

The 1921 TA Reorganisation 

Reorganisation of the 
North Staffordshire Reserves

The Expansion of the TA

The Second World War

Post World War Two Reductions

The Territorial Army Post 1945

The Mercian Regiment

The History of the Staffordshire Knot

The Black Knots

Sources and Acknowledgements

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A Concise History of the British Infantry Regiments of the Great War:  No 60 - The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)

This is Part 60 in a series of regimental mini-histories designed to introduce you to the British Infantry Regiments which fought in the Great War
Created by Dudley Giles 