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Donald Rose, who died yesterday at 110, was born on Christmas Eve in 1914 and was just 25 when he signed up to fight on the ...
Sheep rustlers have fled with 29 ewes. They grabbed the sheep from a field in Woodseaves. Staffordshire Police have just ...
Mr Brett-Young has been involved with the armed forces charity SSAFA (Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association) for over three decades.
Jack Sutton, 36, served as a private with the Staffordshire Mercian Regiment in the British Army for four years before he left in 2014. He travelled to the war-torn country shortly after Russia's ...
Staffordshire has been confirmed as the location to host an annual national event to promote placemaking and place shaping across the UK and internationally – at the iconic Lichfield Cathedral.
A special Staffordshire bull terrier has been honoured with a military-style funeral in front of 100 mourners. Colour Sergeant Watchman V, also known as Somme, was the mascot dog of Staffordshire ...
MORE THAN 200 mourners attended the military-style funeral of a dog who was a regiment's much-loved mascot.
A faithful regimental mascot who took part in more than 900 events is to be laid to rest. Staffordshire Bull Terrier Colour Sergeant Watchman V, known as Somme, died on January 13. He had been ...
A “unique” group of Staffordshire medals from a soldier who served under Lord Kitchener in the Sudan is coming up to auction in Lichfield.
Plans for a memorial bench to remember those fallen in the Staffordshire and Mercian Regiment have been submitted to Tamworth Borough Council. The application for the bench was submitted to the ...
Ex-UK army chief calls Northern Ireland investigations 'unfair' as 50 year commemoration gets under way Earlier, an ex-British solider and ex-IRA prisoner warned there cannot be a one-sided ...