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38thFoot raised in 1702 as Lillingstone's Regt became 1st Staffordshire Regiment in 1782. The 80th Staffordshire Volunteers raised in 1793.

The badge of the Staffordshire's is the ancient badge of the Stafford family and called the Stafford Knot. The 38th wore it originally as a cap badge from 1870.

The 80th were raised within the county and the two were linked as 1st & 2nd Battalions.

The Colours and Memorials are in Lichfield Cathedral, Territorial Colours are in the Parish Churches of Wolverhampton and Walsall.

1959.01.31 amalgamated with The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's), to form The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)

Battle Honours WW1
Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, Ypres 1914 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Ancre 1916, Bapaume 1917 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Bullecourt, Hill 70, Messines 1917 '18, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Lys, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916

Battle Honours WW2
Caen, Noyers, Falaise, Arnhem 1944, North-West Europe 1940 '44, Sidi Barrani, North Africa 1940, Landing in Sicily, Sicily 1943, Italy 1943, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944

 

Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Lichfield (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment
1st Battalion

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
1882 Egypt
1883 Malta
1885 Sudan
1886 Gibraltar
1891 Egypt
1893 England: Aldershot
<1895> Lichfield
1898 Ireland: Kinsale
1900.04 South Africa
1904 Ireland: Curragh
1906 England: Bordon
1911 Gibraltar
1913 South Africa
1914.10 France and Flanders 7 Div
1917.11 Italy 91 Bde, 7 Div
1918.11 Italy
1919 Singapore
1921 Burma: Maymyo
1925 Bombay
1927 Sudan
1929 England: Lichfield
1932 Blackdown 6 Bde
1938 Palestine
1940 Middle East Corps Troops
1942.02 Middle East 70 Inf Div
1943.09 Burma LRP
1945.03.1-22 16th (South Staffordshire) Battalion, The Parachute Regiment
converted to para role at Rawalpindi
1945.03 India
1945.04.18 16th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment
1945.03 India
1948.07.26 1st Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
converted back to infantry and amalgamated with 2nd Battalion
1948 UK
1949 Hong Kong
1951 Northern Ireland
1952 Germany: Göttingen 91 Bde
1954 Egypt
1955.08 Cyprus
1957.02 Germany: Lüneburg
1959.01.31 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's), to form 1st Bn, The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)

2nd Battalion

1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
1881 India: Tralee
1883 England: Manchester
1886 Devonport
1889 Ireland: Dublin
1891 England
1893 Egypt
1895 India: Madras
1897 Burma: Thaytemyo
1900 India: Agra
1904 llahabad
1907 South Africa
1911 England: Lichfield
1914 Aldershot 6 Bde
1914.08 France and Flanders 2 Div
1919 Ireland: Cork
1923 England: Plymouth
1926 Shorncliffe
1928 Malta
1929 Palestine
1930 Egypt
1932.10 India: Bangalore
1936.02 Cawnpore
1939 Landi Kotal
1940.07 UK 31 Inf Bde
1941.12 UK
1942.06.23 converted to airlanding role
1942.06 UK 1 Abn Div
1942.11 Tunisia
1943.07 Sicily
1943.09 Italy
1943.11 UK?
1944.09 NW Europe
1945 Norway
1946 Germany
1948.07.26 disbanded (technically "amalgamated" with 1st Battalion)