|
|
|
8th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment
8th (Service) Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment was raised Lichfield on the 18th of September 1914 as part of Kitchener's Second New Army and joined 57th Brigade in 19th (Western) Division. They trained on Salisbury Plain, spending the winter in billets in Bristol from December 1914. In February 1915 they moved to Weston-super-Mare, then in April they moved to Tidworth for final training. They proceeded to France on the 18th of July 1915, the division concentrating near St Omer. Their first action was at Pietre, in a diversionary action supporting the Battle of Loos. In 1916 They were in action during the Battle of the Somme, capturing La Boisselle and being involved in The attacks on High Wood, The Battles of Pozieres Ridge, the Ancre Heights and the Ancre. In 1917 they were in action in The Battle of Messines and the Third Battles of Ypres. On the 7th of February 1918 they transferred to 56th Brigade, still with 19th Division. In 1918 They fought on The Somme during The Battle of St Quentin and The Battle of Bapaume and in the Battles of the Lys at Messines, Bailleul and The First Battle of Kemmel Ridge. They fought in The Battle of the Aisne and during the Final Advance in Picardly they were in action in The Battle of the Selle, The Battle of the Sambre and the passage of the Grand Honelle. At the Armitice were were in billets near Bavay. Demobilisation began in December 1918 and the final cadres returned to England on the 27th of June 1919.
Jul 1915 Training Instruction
Jul 1915 Billets
2nd of September 1915 Combined Fire Attack
7th of September 1915 On the March
10th of September 1915 Trench Improvements 
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
5th of November 1915 Relief Completed
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
15th of December 1915 Moving Up
23rd December 1915 Preparing to Move
8th of January 1916 Visits and A Relief
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
11th of January 1916 A Feint Attack
17th of January 1916 In the Front Line
9th February 1916 Call Ups
2nd Apr 1917 Heavy Snow
2nd Jul 1916 Attack and Counter Attack
8th Jul 1916 Line Advanced
1st Oct 1916 Orders
2nd Oct 1916 Brigades Training
3rd Oct 1916 Reliefs
4th Oct 1916 On the Move
6th Oct 1916 Orders
8th Oct 1916 Orders Issued
12th Oct 1916 Shelling
14th Oct 1916 Orders
15th Oct 1916 Orders
2nd Nov 1916 Reliefs
5th Nov 1916 On the Move
1st of December 1916 A Route March
1st Dec 1916 Training
2nd Dec 1916 Training
12th of December 1916 Snow and Football
15th Dec 1916 Inspection
18th Dec 1916 Inspections
21st Dec 1916 Sports Medals
22nd Dec 1916 Company Training
31st of December 1916 Baths and Football
31st Dec 1916 Training
16th of January 1917 German POWs
7th of February 1917 Relieved
11th of February 1917 Back to Trenches
15th of February 1917 Relieved
26th Feb 1917 Advance Made
26th of February 1917 An Attack
27th of February 1917 Pushing Forward
27th of March 1917 On Relief
1st Apr 1917 Artillery Registration
3rd Apr 1917 Blizzard
4th Apr 1917 Artillery Active
5th Apr 1917 Some Shelling
6th Apr 1917 Artilery in Support
7th Apr 1917 Shelling
8th Apr 1917 Artillery Registration
9th Apr 1917 Hail Stones
7th of May 1917 Retaliatory Shelling
25th of May 1917 Relieved
7th of June 1917 A Big Offensive
7th of July 1917 German TMs Fire
8th of July 1917 Trench Improvements
10th of July 1917 Relieved
5th of August 1917 In Support
21st of September 1917 Relief
1st of October 1917 Reliefs Complete
17th of October 1917 On Relief
3rd of November 1917 Training
7th of November 1917 On Relief
3rd of January 1918 Patrols Out
12th of January 1918 On the March
23rd of January 1918 Fairly Quiet Day
27th of January 1918 On the Move
31st of January 1918 Relieved
16th of February 1918 New Draft Drilled
17th of February 1918 Church Parade
23rd Mar 1918 Heavy Fighting
24th Mar 1918 Fighting Withdrawal
1st Apr 1918 Spirit maintained under Stress
10th of April 1918 Under Attack
10th of April 1918 Into Battle
11th of April 1918 Quiet...and then...
12th of April 1918 Enemy Advances
6th June 1918 Attack
1st Aug 1918 Training
2nd Aug 1918 Training
3rd Aug 1918 Training
4th Aug 1918 Orders Received
5th August 1918 A report having been received that the enemy had evacuated posts on our left
5th Aug 1918 Training
6th August 1918 Battalion was relieved tonight
6th Aug 1918 On the Move
7th Aug 1918 Reliefs Complete
8th Aug 1918 Farm Captured
9th Aug 1918 Possible Booby Traps
30th Sep 1918 Attack Made
6th of November 1918 Into Front Line
23rd of November 1918 Salvaging
21st of December 1918 Battalion Drill
If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
|
| Want to know more about 8th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment? There are:5329 items tagged 8th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.
|
|
Those known to have served with 8th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Allgood Frank. (d.16th April 1918)
- Barker Jeremiah Jerry. L/Sgt (d.13 October 1915)
- Bee Frank Sydney. L/Cpl. (d.4th January 1918)
- Blakemore Denis Jetson. Pte. (d.9th Jul 1917)
- Boatman Thomas James. Pte. (d.19th Apr 1918)
- Brocklehurst Samuel Needham. Sgt. (d.12th March 1918)
- Bullock Eli. Pte.
- Butroid Ernest. Pte. (d.4th Nov 1918)
- Cassidy Felix. Cpl. (d.19th Apr 1918)
- Colley Ernest. Pte. (d.9th August 1916)
- Dale Thomas James. Pte. (d.20th April 1919)
- Dance Sam. L/Cpl.
- Darlow Arnold Harvey. Pte. (d.12th April 1918)
- Davies Fred. Pte. (d.22nd Sep 1917)
- Deakin William. Pte. (d.19th April 1918)
- Dean Jesse. Lance Corporal (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Ellis Vincent Frederick. Pte. (d.20th Sep 1917)
- Gater Thomas. Pte. (d.19th Nov 1916)
- Gough DSO. Horace Fredrick. 2nd Lt. (d.21st Sept 1917)
- Harrison James. Pte. (d.6th Jul 1916)
- Hewkin Walter. Pte. (d.10th June 1917)
- Hinxman Albert William. Pte. (d.29th April 1918)
- Jones Henry. L/Cpl. (d.19th Nov 1916)
- Jones William. Pte. (d.20th Sep 1917)
- Lane Thomas Joseph. Pte. (d.18th April 1918)
- Lunn Matthew Henry. Pte
- Meen Arthur Porcher. Pte. (d.20th September 1917)
- Millington Herbert. Pte. (d.18th Nov 1916)
- Oakes William. Pte. (d.3rd June 1918)
- Peace Job. Pte. (d.10th Apr 1918)
- Redsell Walter Edward. Pte. (d.30th May 1918)
- Ross George Anderson. Pte. (d.4th June 1918)
- Sanders Alfred. Sgt.
- Selfe Hugh Ronald. Cptn. (d.9th July 1917)
- Stainthorpe Sidney. Pte. (d.13th May 1918)
- Tate Lionel Percy. 2nd Lt. (d.4th Nov 1918)
- Taylor MM. Frederick. QMSgt. (d.6th May 1918)
- Telfer J.. Pte. (d.10th Jun 1917)
- Whitham William. Pte (d.5th Oct 1917)
All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed,
please Add a Name to this List
Records of 8th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment from other sources.
|
|
The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
- 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time.
|
Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our
Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text.
|
Looking for help with Family History Research?
Please see Family History FAQ's
Please note: We are unable to provide individual research.
|
|
Can you help?
The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors.
If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.
If you enjoy this site
please consider making a donation.
Announcements
- 19th Nov 2024
Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than
264989 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit.
Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted
photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted.
|
World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery
Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a
Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.
|
|
|
Pte. Ernest Butroid 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.4th Nov 1918) Ernest Butroid enlisted eith the the Lincolnshire Regiment.
He was killed in action aged 23.
|
Pte. Herbert Millington 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.18th Nov 1916) Herbert Millington served with the 8th North Staffordshire Regiment.
|
Pte. Arnold Harvey Darlow 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.12th April 1918) I have visited the Messines Ridge Cemetery, south of Ypres, Belgium, a few times over the last years and noticed this single Staffs Regiment grave, of Arnold Darlow among the many New Zealand graves. Last Thursday, 16 November 2018 I visited the grave specifically to put two British legion poppies there, to honour and commemorate this man who fought in my county regiment
|
Pte. James Harrison 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.6th Jul 1916) After researching my family tree, I have learnt my 2nd great grandad, James Harrison fought and died in the Battle of The Somme.
|
Pte. Job Peace 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.10th Apr 1918) Job Peace served with the 8th North Staffordshire Regiment and died on the 10th of April 1918. This is the only information I have about my Grandfather, and we don't have any pictures of him either.
If anyone knows anything about him, or where he was killed (he has no known grave,) I would appreciate it.
Before the war he worked in the local textile mills, and he was a keen runner. I believe he ran a race against Jimmy Holdsworth, a local hero, and lost, and someone wrote a poem entitled Lines on Jimmy Holdsworth.
|
Pte. Arthur Porcher Meen 8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment (d.20th September 1917) Arthur Meen enlisted on the 2nd of July 1917 aged 29,he was previously a cattle lad on a farm. He was killed in action in Flanders, just 2 months after enlisting. He is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial and Long Stratton War Memorial.
|
Pte. Thomas Gater 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.19th Nov 1916) Thomas Gater of the 8th North Stafffordshire Regiment lost his life in Flanders.
|
L/Cpl. Sam Dance 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment Sam Dance served with the 8th North Staffordshire Regiment.
|
L/Cpl. Frank Sydney Bee 8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment (d.4th January 1918) Frank Bee was my great-great grandfather. I currently don't know a lot about his service, but I know he served with the 8th Battalion North Staffs from around 1915 onwards. I believe he is buried at a small war grave in northern France.
Given the centenary approaching, I've been trying to find out more about him and the 8th Battalion to see where he may have fought and in what battle he may have died.
|
Pte William Whitham 8th Battalion North Staffordshire (d.5th Oct 1917) I know very little about William Whitham or what he did in the First World War. I do have a postcard sent from him to his mother (Possibly in 1916)
|
Frank Allgood 8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment (d.16th April 1918) Frank Allgood was my great great uncle. Son of James and Margaret. They were farm tenants in Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire.
His brother Alexander Thomas Allgood fell also.
|
Pte. William Oakes 8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment (d.3rd June 1918) William Oakes joined up in late August 1916, aged 32. A bricklayer by trade, as detailed in his joining papers, his record shows that he qualified as a bomber. He died of wounds and is buried at the cemetery near Signy-Signet.
|
Cpl. Felix Cassidy 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.19th Apr 1918) Felix Cassidy was my Great uncle. He served with the 8th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment.
|
Sgt. Samuel Needham Brocklehurst 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.12th March 1918) Sam Brocklehurst was a farmer. He served with the 8th, 2nd, 3rd and 12th Battalions, North Staffordshire Regiment. He left behind his wife Flo and their six children aged 12 to 3. He has no known grave but his name appears on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
|
Pte. Ernest Colley 8th Btn. North Staffs Regiment (d.9th August 1916) Ernest Colley has no known grave and I am still trying to find out where and how he went missing and in which action. Ernest was the son of John and Alice Colley of Longton.
|
L/Cpl. Henry Jones 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.19th Nov 1916) Henry Jones was a telegraphist in the North Staffs Regiment. He died whilst serving on the frontline between Thiepval and Bouquet Farm. Specifically he was killed in the battalion attack at 06.10 hours on 18th November from Regina trench to Desire trench. 17 officers and 317 other ranks became casualties and the attack completely failed. Henry Jones's body was never identified and he is listed as missing.
|
Sgt. Alfred Sanders 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment  My relative was Alfred Sanders. He was born in 1895 in Longton, Stoke on Trent. He joined the colours in 1914 and the census records states he lived in Heaths Passage. He joined the 8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment.
On July 3rd he went over the top under the command of Major Cecil Wedgwood. Wedgwood and many others died. Alfred survived the Somme Campaign then on the last day, 18th November, took part in an attack against Grandcourt. There was a blizzard and bitter fighting took place. 173 men from Stoke were killed. Alfred was presumed dead. Then in March 1917, he appeared in the archives as being a prisoner of war in German hands. I have found the German records stating which camps he was in and his medal index card shows he returned home in 1919. He died in 1951 and is buried in Longton Cemetery.
His older cousin born in 1892 was my great great grandad and also called Alfred Sanders. He served with the 7th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment in Gallipoli and was wounded in July 1916. He went on to the 1st South Staffs Regiment and served at Ypres in 1917 when he was discharged for being wounded in October 1917.
|
Pte. William Deakin 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Rgt. (d.19th April 1918) William Deakin was my great grandfather. He was the father of my father's mother. He came from Mossley in Lancashire near Ashton Under Lyne. To date, I know very little about him apart from the fact he was killed in action on 19th April 1918 and is buried at Tyne Cot military Cemetery, Belgium.
|
Pte Matthew Henry Lunn 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment Mathew Lunn was born on 25 Aug. 1897 at Meltham. He was mobilised 6th November 1916 and sent to France on 5th Mar 1917, initially with 1st N. Staffs, but he transferred to 8th Btn on 26 March 1917. Messines was probably his Baptism of fire! Later on 11 August received a Blighty - a bullet/bayonet wound to right thigh - and was invalided back to UK. He was eventually discharged "No longer fit for Military Service" in November 1917. He received Silver wound badge & King's Certificate.
Mathew Henry Lunn died at Meltham 18 Jan 1931 of tuberculosis. A short life but he did his bit!
|
2nd Lt. Lionel Percy Tate 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.4th Nov 1918) Lionel Tate was known by his middle name, Percy. He was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, on 17th April 1892, the eldest child of Robert William Tate and his wife Emma (nee Stainsby).
He attended Chillingham Road school and Skerry’s college in Newcastle and was working as an accounts clerk when he enlisted in the 1st/1st Northumberland Hussars (Territorial Army) on 17th February 1913. His was the first territorial regiment to be sent overseas, they arrived at Zeebrugge on 5th October 1914.
Percy spent almost the whole war in France, with only a handful of days on leave in England each year. He survived many terrible battles in France, including Ypres and the Somme and rose to the rank of corporal before returning to England to cadet school in December 1917.
He was appointed to a commission in the North Staffordshire Regiment in May 1918 and returned to serve with them in France.
He was killed in action on 4th November 1918 and is buried in the churchyard of Wargnies Le Grand. After surviving so much, serving throughout the war, it is so sad that he died within only a few days of the armistice. This was also a tragedy for his fiancée, Cissy Dryden, who always kept a photo of Percy and never married. Later, she worked in a sweet shop.
Percy’s brother Lance Corporal Norman Tate, 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers, was killed in action on 6th October 1918, commemorated at Vis-En-Artois memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
|
Recomended Reading.Available at discounted prices.
|
|
|
Site Home
Help & FAQs
