South Staffordshire Regiment, The

British regiment, formerly the 38th and 80th Regiments. The 38th, raised in 1705, served in operations in the West Indies, America, Flanders, Cape of Good Hope, Montivideo, the Peninsula, Burma, Crimea and the Indian Mutiny. The 80th, raised in 1793, served in operations in Flanders (1794), Egypt (1801)), the Sikh Wars, Burma, The Indian Mutiny, and the Zulu Wars. The two regiments were linked in 1881 to form the South Staffordshire, which served in Egypt (1882), the Sudan, and in the South African War.

During the First World War it raised 18 battalions, which served in France, Flanders, Italy, Gallipoli, and Egypt. In the Second World War the regiment fought in the Dunkirk campaign, in Normandy, and at Arnhem (1944); in North Africa and Sicily; and in Burma as Chindits. The North and South Staffordshire Regiments were amalgamated in 1959, as the Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's).

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