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Britain's oldest Second World War veteran, Donald Rose, has passed away at the remarkable age of 110. Born on Christmas Eve ...
Campaigners who want to save the name of a former Staffordshire regiment hand a petition to Downing Street.
A newly merged military regiment has held one of its first parades in Staffordshire. The march through Tamworth came after the 1st and 2nd Battalions of The Mercian Regiment combined. Soldiers ...
An Army regiment of about 1,200 soldiers is set to move to a Staffordshire town. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that Beacon Barracks in Stafford was its "preferred location" for 1 Signal ...
Jack Sutton, 36, served as a private with the Staffordshire Mercian Regiment in the British Army for four years before he left in 2014.
The Mercian Regiment’s territorial link to Staffordshire is set to be dropped when it is axed and a new regiment is formed in its place, it has been claimed. The Regiment is set to be lost as ...
The 5th North Staffordshire Regiment (its named was changed to the 1st/5th in France) was formed in 1908 to take the place of the old Volunteers. The Territorial Force was formed for home defence.
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 ...
The Staffordshire Regiment has won BBC Midlands Today's Midlander of the Year competition. Thousands of people voted for the people in the region they thought had made a difference over the past year.
THE future of Staffordshire Regiment Museum is under threat and a multi-million pound fund-raising campaign is to be launched to secure it, it was revealed today.