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1st Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment
1st Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment was based in India at the outbreak of war in 1939. They saw action in Burma during the Second World War.
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Pte. Arthur William James 1st Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment  Arthur James, then aged 19 years, enlisted with the Regular Army in Stoke-On-Trent on 31st of March 1933 for 7 years with the Colours & 5 years in the Reserve.
He became an Army medic with 1st Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment for 13 years between 1933 and 1946. He served 8 and a half years in Poona (Pune), India as a Private (and musician with the battalion's marching band) during peace time.
Arthur was recorded as missing in action on 8th of August 1944, the day before his eldest son was born. He had been captured in Normandy to become an Allied Prisoner of War and was held in Stalag XII-A at Limburg an der Lahn, north-west of Frankfurt, Germany. Later, he was moved south to Stalag VII-A at Moosburg, near Freising, north-east of Munich, Germany and was among those liberated on 29th of April 1945 by American forces (Combat Command A of the American 14th Armored Division).
Arthur was awarded the War Medal 1939-45, France and Germany Star and Burma Star Medals. He came out of the Regular Army on 4th of March 1946 and
transferred to the Army Reserve on 5th of March 1946, aged 32 years.
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Sjt. A. Edwards 1st Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.9th Oct 1940) I have no family ties to Sjt A Edwards, my wife's grandparents are laid to rest next to him, but I thought do this man his justice and add his name to this website, I am also an ex soldier having served in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Balkans.
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Col.Sgt. Frank Cooper 1st Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment My father, Frank Cooper joined 1st North Staffords in early 1938, under age. He sailed to India in 1939, serving in Calcutta and Ahmednagar as Company Qtr Master Sgt/Color Sgt with D Company before being posted to supply work with PAI Force in North Persia/Iraq.
From there, en route to officer training in Bangalore, he served with 7th Leicesters whilst they were training for the second Chindit Campaign. He Commissioned into the Cameron Highlanders, serving with a training battalion in Scotland, and then with a Royal West African Frontier Force pioneer unit in West Africa and the Canal Zone, where he was Adjutant, Camp Branch GHQ Middle East until leaving the Army to come home in early 1947
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