2 Militia and Special Reserve battalions
2–3 Territorial and Volunteer battalions
Up to 12 Hostilities-only battalions
Part of
Mercian Brigade (1948–59)
Garrison/HQ
Whittington Barracks, Lichfield
Nickname(s)
1 Bn: The Pump and Tortoise 2 Bn: The Staffordshire Knots
Colors
Green, red and gold[1]
March
Come, Lasses and Lads
Mascot(s)
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
Anniversaries
Arnhem, 17 Sep Ferozeshah, 21 Dec
Military unit
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.
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