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38th (1st Staffordshire)
Regiment of Foot
 
United Kingdom 
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1688.11.12 Sir John Guise's Regiment of Foot
1689.09.20 Jonathan Foulkes's Regiment of Foot
1693.10.30 Luke Lillingston's Regiment of Foot
1694 disbanded in England

1694.12.24 Luke Lillingston's Regiment of Foot
re-formed from personnel of previous regiment
1696 disbanded in West Indies

1702.02.13 Luke Lillingston's Regiment of Foot
1747 ranked as 38th Foot
1751.07.01 38th Regiment of Foot
1782.08.31 38th (the 1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
1881.07.01 united with 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot , to form The South Staffordshire Regiment
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  Regulars:
    [1st Battalion] [1705-1881]
    2nd Battalion [1804-1814]
Depot and Reserves:
  ? Depot Battalion [1856-1871]
  19th Brigade Depot at Lichfield [1873-1881]

Monte Video, Rolica, Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, San Sebastian, Nive, Peninsula, Ava, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Lucknow

Note: see also successor for belatedly awarded battle honours.

   
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1688.11.12 Sir John Guise
1689.09.20 Jonathan Foulkes
1693.10.30 Brig-Gen. Luke Lillingston

1694.12.24 Brig-Gen. Luke Lillingston

1702 vacant?
1705.03.25 Brig-Gen. Luke Lillingston
1708.06.02 Col. James Jones
1711.11.27 Col. Francis Alexander
1717.09.21 Col. Richard Lucas
1729.12.25 Brig-Gen. Edward Jones
1735.05.13 Brig-Gen. Hon. Robert Murray
1738.03.30 Gen. Charles (Spencer), 3rd Duke of Marlborough, KG
1739.11.07 Lt-Gen. Robert Dalzell
1750.03.13 Lt-Gen. Richard Philipps
1751.02.27 Lt-Gen. Alexander Duroure
1756.05.26 Maj-Gen. Sir James Ross, Bt.
1760.10.12 Maj-Gen. David Watson
1761.11.11 Maj-Gen. Andrew Robinson
1762.04.12 Maj-Gen. Sharington Talbot
1766.11.24 Lt-Gen. Cadwallader (Blayney), 9th Baron Blayney [also 91st Foot]
1775.12.11 Gen. Sir Robert Pigot, Bt.
1796.08.02 Gen. James Rooke
1805.10.10 Gen. George James (Ludlow), 3rd Earl Ludlow, GCB
1836.05.30 Maj-Gen. Hon. Sir Charles James Greville, KCB
1836.12.15 Gen. Sir Henry Pigot, GCMG
1840.06.15 Lt-Gen. Sir Jasper Nicolls, KCB
1843.04.04 Gen. Hon. Sir Hugh Arbuthnott, KCB
1862.03.14 Gen. Sir William (Mansfield), 1st Baron Sandhurst, GCB, GCSI
1876.06.24 Gen. James Pattoun Sparks, CB
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Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Lichfield (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
Museum of the Staffordshire Regiment, Lichfield (Simonides listing)
Regimental Journal:
Full Histories:
Jones, James P. A history of The South Staffordshire regiment (1705-1923). Wolverhampton : Whitehead Brothers Ltd., 1923.
Presenting The South Staffordshire Regiment. London : Malcolm Page, 1952.
Vale, Walter Leonard. History of the South Staffordshire Regiment. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1969. ISBN: 0700100016
 
Short Histories:
Extracts from the records of the services of the First Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, late 38th Regiment... London : Army & Navy Society, 1883.
Extracts from the records of the services of the First Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, late 38th Regiment. Gibraltar : Beanland, Malin & Co., 1887.
Freer, William J. The Thirty-Eighth Regiment of Foot, now the First Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment. London : Harrison & Sons, 1915. [reprinted from: The British numismatic journal, v. 11]
The Staffordshire Regiment. Hemel Hempstead : Nexus Special Interests, 1995. (Regiment ; 7)
Fox, Henry Edward. Regimental standing orders for the Thirty eight or 1st Staffordshire regiment issued. [Boston? : s.n.], 1778. [Manuscript]