Regiment: South Staffordshire Regiment 2nd Battalion

2nd Battalion
04.08.1914 Stationed at Aldershot as part of the 6th Brigade of the 2nd Division.
13.08.1914 Mobilised for war and landed at Havre and engaged in various actions on the Western front including;
During 1914
The Battle of Mons and the subsequent retreat, The Battle of the Marne, The Battle of the Aisne, First Battle of Ypres.
During 1915
Winter Operations 1914-15, The Battle of Festubert, The Battle of Loos.
During 1916
The Battle of Delville Wood, The Battle of the Ancre, Operations on the Ancre,
During 1917
The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The First Battle of the Scarpe, The Battle of Arleux, The Second Battle of the Scarpe, The Battle of Cambrai.
During 1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Bapaume, The First Battle of Arras 1918, The Battle of Albert, The Second Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Havrincourt, The Battle of the Canal du Nord, The Battle of Cambrai 1918, The Battle of the Selle.
11.11.1918 Ended the war in France, Amfroipret north of Foret de Mormal.