Qualla: Staffordshire Regiment Museum

Staffordshire Regiment Museum: Introduction

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Bs0u10e01, CC BY 3.0. There is an oddly tender thing about a museum that puts a piece of an Iraqi armoured personnel carrier next to a 1760 grenadier's cap and expects you to follow the line between them. The Staffordshire Regiment Museum, on the A51 between Lichfield and Tamworth, has been doing exactly that since 1969, when the separate museums of the North Staffordshire Regiment and the South Staffordshire Regiment merged into one collection covering everything from 1705 to whatever the British Army's most recent deployment happens to be. Eleven thousand objects. Fourteen Victoria Crosses to remember. A trench reconstructed in the back garden. An adventure playground built around a life-size Warrior fighting vehicle and named after a sergeant who never came home from Afghanistan.

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Staffordshire Regiment Museum: Whittington Barracks

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit WarMagician at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0. The museum sits next to Whittington Barracks, which has been the regimental home since 1881 and is now headquarters to the Mercian Regiment, the modern formation that absorbed the Staffordshire Regiment in 2007. Whittington itself is a small Staffordshire village three miles east...

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Staffordshire Regiment Museum: Three Hundred Years of Service

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit anonymous, Public domain. The display moves chronologically through the regiments that became one regiment that became part of another. The 38th Regiment of Foot, raised in 1705 in Lichfield itself. The 64th, the 80th, the 98th. The amalgamations of 1881 that produced the North and South Staffords. The 19...

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Staffordshire Regiment Museum: The Trench in the Garden

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Bs0u10e0, CC BY 3.0. Behind the building the museum has built things you cannot quite get inside an indoor case. There is a replica First World War trench, mud and duckboards and the smell of damp timber, where visitors can walk through what a thousand Staffordshire men spent four years in. There is ...

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Staffordshire Regiment Museum: Camp Fisher

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Bs0u10e01, CC BY 3.0. In 2019 the museum opened something that looks at first like a children's play area and is, on closer inspection, considerably more. Camp Fisher is a military-style adventure playground built around a life-size mock-up of a Warrior tracked armoured vehicle, the climbing frames ar...

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