Great Britain

The South Staffordshire Regiment

The Prince of Wales’s

	Kingdom of England
1688:	John Guise’s Regiment of Foot │
1689:	Jonathan Foulke’s │
1693:	Luke Lillingston’s │
1694:	disbanded
1694:	Luke Lillingston’s Regiment of Foot │
1696:	disbanded
1702:	Luke Lillingston’s Regiment of Foot │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
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1708:	James Jones’s │
1711:	Francis Alexander’s │
1717:	Richard Lucas’s │
1729:	Edward Jones’ │
1735:	Robert Murray’s │
1738:	Duke of Marlborough’s │
1739:	Robert Dalzell’s │
1750:	Richard Philipps’s │
1751:	Alexander Duroure’s │
1751:	38th Regiment of Foot │
1756:	│ │		2nd Bn, 11th Regiment of Foot │
1758:	│ │		64th Regiment of Foot │
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1782:	38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot │		64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot │
1793:	│ │ │	80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot │	│ │ │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1804:	2nd Bn raised │	│ │	│ │
1814:	2nd Bn disbanded │	│ │	│ │
1824:	│ │	│ │	│ │	98th Regiment of Foot │
1876:	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │	98th (Prince of Wales’s) Regiment of Foot │
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	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	1st Bn,	2nd Bn,	1st Bn,	2nd Bn,
			The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s) │
	The South Staffordshire Regiment		The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)
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1920:	│ │ │		The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s) │
1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1948:	2nd Bn disbanded │		│ │
1948:	part of The Mercian Brigade │		part of The Mercian Brigade │
1949:	│ │		2nd Bn disbanded │
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1958:	1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s)
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1968:	part of The Prince of Wales’s Division │
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2007:	3rd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment (Staffords)
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2014:	3rd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffordshire) │
2014:	disbanded