STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT MUSEUM
With a large number of battle honours to its credit and no fewer than 14 VCs awarded to its soldiers, the Staffordshire Regiment has a heritage to be very proud of. Museum Director, Danielle Crozier, profiles the museum dedicated to this famous regional fighting unit.
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This fine county Regiment’s museum was established on its current site within Defence Medical Service (DMS) Whittington, generally referred to locally as Whittington Barracks, in the early 1960s. The location, close to Lichfield, north of Birmingham, is the regiment’s spiritual home, having been associated with it since 1881. The museum is a place where the memories of Staffordshire’s soldiers through the ages are recalled by using regimental memorabilia, historic artefacts, uniformed mannequins, weapons collections and audio-visual presentations.
The Staffordshire Regiment can trace its long and glorious history back to 1705, when it was raised locally by Colonel Luke Lillingston, at The King’s Head public house in Lichfield. Four Regiments of Foot, the 38th, 64th, 80th and 98th, then followed.
The South Staffordshire Regiment and The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire) Regiment were created o…
