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The South Staffordshire Regiment (38th Foot and 80th Foot)

The Antecedent Regiments

The Raising of a Regiment

The King's Head, Lichfield

Gone - and forgotten?

'Make do and mend'

The War of Jenkin's Ear (1739-1748)

Saved from oblivion

Naming the Regiment

The Seven Years War (1756-63)

The American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783)

Back to the West Indies

The 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment

The West Indies - Still

The 80th Regiment of Foot

The 80th and the Marquess of Anglesey

The 80th in Egypt (1801)

The 38th in the Napoleonic Wars

Argentina 1805

The First Peninsula Campaign

The Walcheren Expedition 1809

The Peninsula Campaign (1808-1811)

The Peninsula Campaign (1812-1814)

The 38th (1818-1855)

The 80th (1798-1817)

The 80th (1818-1881)

The Indian Mutiny

The Cardwell Reforms

The Victoria Cross

The Childers Reforms

The Regular Battalions (1881-1914): Garrison Duties

The Regular Battalions (1881-1914): Active Service

The Haldane Reforms

The new Territorial Force Battalions

The 1911 Census Returns

Soldiers born elsewhere in England

Soldiers born elsewhere in Britain and Ireland

English soldiers place of birth

Soldiers born outside of Britain and Ireland

More Staffordshiremen join the Regiment

The Great War

The Regular Battalions in 1914

The TF in 1914

The 'New Army'

The South Staffs New Army Battalions

The Expansion of the TF (1914-1915)

1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment

2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment

3rd (Reserve) Battalion 
South Staffordshire Regiment

4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion 
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1st/5th Bn (TF) South Staffordshire Regiment

1st/6th Bn (TF) South Staffordshire Regiment

2nd/5th Bn (TF) South Staffordshire Regiment

2nd/6th Bn (TF) South Staffordshire Regiment

The 3rd/5th Bn (TF) and 3rd/6th (TF) Bns 
South Staffordshire Regiment

The 7th (Service) Bn 
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The 8th (Service) Bn 
South Staffordshire Regiment

The 9th (Service) Bn (Pioneers) 
South Staffordshire Regiment

Miscellaneous Battalions

First World War Battle Honours

Breaking the Hindenburg Line

The Regular Battalions (1919-1939)

The 1921 TA Reorganisation 

The 1921 TA Reorganisation - South Staffords

The Expansion of the TA

The Second World War

Post World War Two Reductions

The Mercian Regiment

The History of the Staffordshire Knot

"The Pump and Tortoise"

Sources and Acknowledgements

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A Concise History of the British Infantry Regiments of the Great War: No 42 - The South Staffordshire Regiment

<p>This is part 42 in a series of regimental mini-histories designed to introduce you to the British Infantry Regiments which fought in the Great WarCreated by Dudley Giles </p>