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80th Regiment of Foot
(Staffordshire Volunteers)
 
United Kingdom 
  Titles & Lineage
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  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards & Guidons
  Uniforms & Badges
  Colonels-in-Chief
  Colonels

  Biography & Gallantry Awards
  Traditions
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  Museums, Monuments, Memorials
  Bibliography

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1793.09.12 80th Regiment of Foot
1802 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers)
absorbed Staffordshire Volunteers [raised 1798]
1881.07.01 united with 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot , to form The South Staffordshire Regiment
  History of the 80th Regiment of Foot 1793-1817 South Staffordshire Volunteers, by Kerry Edwards (Family History in India)
  1st/80th Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment [in Australia] 1836-1844, by B & M Chapman.
  Regimental History, by Chris Robson [NSW re-enactment group]
     
  Regulars:
    [1st Battalion] [1793-1881]
Depot and Reserves:
  ? Depot Battalion [1856-1871]
  19th Brigade Depot at Lichfield [1873-1881]
[Egypt]1, Moodkee, Ferozeshah, Sobraon, Pegu, Central India South Africa 1878-9

1.  the Sphinx badge superscribed "Egypt".
Note: see also successor for belatedly awarded battle honours.

Regimental Colours, by Chris Robson.
   
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1793.09.12 F.M. Henry William (Paget), 1st Marquess of Anglesey, KG, GCB, GCH
1795.06.16 Maj-Gen. John St. Leger
1800.02.14 Gen. Gerard (Lake), 1st Viscount Lake
1808.02.23 Gen. Hon. Sir Edward Paget, GCB
1815.12.26 Lt-Gen. Sir Alexander Campbell, Bt., KCB
1825.04.20 Gen. Sir Rufane Shawe Donkin, KCB, GCH
1837.03.15 Lt-Gen. Sir John Taylor, KCB
1844.01.15 Lt-Gen. Sir Maurice Charles O'Connell, KCH
1848.10.24 Maj-Gen. Sir Edmund Keynton Williams, KCB
1850.01.31 Lt-Gen. Henry Daubeney, KH
1853.04.30 Lt-Gen. Lawrence Argimbau, CB
1854.08.19 Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas Henry Browne, KCH
1855.03.12 Gen. Thomas William Robbins
1864.10.28 Lt-Gen. James Robert Young
1867.09.03 Lt-Gen. Henry John French
1874.01.26 Gen. Charles Crutchley
1875.03.16 Gen. Sir Richard Wilbraham, KCB
Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
VCs in the Staffordshire Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.
 
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80th Regiment of Foot [1836-1845; New South Wales]
Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Lichfield (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
Museum of the Staffordshire Regiment, Lichfield (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
Museum of the Staffordshire Regiment, Lichfield (Simonides listing)
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:
The Staffordshire Regiment. Hemel Hempstead : Nexus Special Interests, 1995. (Regiment ; 7)