The South Staffordshire Regiment (1881-1959) emblem on a World War I headstone at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Zonnebeke, Belgium
The South Staffordshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for only 68 years. The regiment was created in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot and the 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot. The regiment saw service in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. Reduced to a single Regular Army battalion after the Second World War, the regiment was amalgamated, in 1959, with the North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) to form the Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) which was later, in 2007, amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment to form the Mercian Regiment.
Size: 5760px × 3840px
Location: Tyne Cot Cemetery, Vijfwegestraat, 8980 Zonnebeke, Flanders, Belgium, Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
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