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Those known to have served with 2nd Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Buckley George. Sgt.
- Buckley George. Sgt.
- Butler William Patrick. Cpl.
- Cook Ernest W.. Pte. (d.21st May 1940)
- Cope Gordon James. Pte. (d.23rd Apr 1943)
- Dearden Allan. Capt.
- Garrood Robert. Sgt.
- Hallows George William. Sgt.
- Hare Sidney. Lance Sgt.
- Holdcroft Arthur. Cpl. (d.25th May 1940)
- Holmes Jack. L/Sgt. (d.22nd Jun 1943)
- Jones Ivor. Pte.
- Jones Stanley. (d.6th February 1944)
- Marston William Arthur. Pte.
- Mornement Peter Henry. Major (d.20th Apr 1944)
- Roden Frederick Edward. Pte. (d.27th May 1940)
- Turner Ronald Sydney. (d.8th Feb 1944)
- Vickerman Walter. Pte. (d.24 September 1944)
- Wareham Reginald. Pte.
- Whiting Frank.
- Wray Frederick James. L/Sgt (d.8th February 1944)
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Want to know more about 2nd Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment? There are:1332 items tagged 2nd Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment available in our Library
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Ronald Sydney Turner 2nd Btn. North Satffordshire Regiment (d.8th Feb 1944) Ronald Turner served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Lance Sgt. Sidney Hare 2nd Btn. North Staffordshire Rgt. After leaving the Merchant Navy where my dad was serving on the Blue Star Line to South America, he joined the East Surrey regiment before being transfered to the North Staffs. He saw action in North Africa (First Army) and Italy (Sicily and Anzio). He was captured at Anzio after heavy hand-to-hand fighting. The battalion had over 600 men killed in action. My father was eventually marched and transported to the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag 357. At the end of the war he served in several other almalgamated regiments before coming back home to Custom House, Canning Town, London.
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L/Sgt. Jack Holmes 2nd Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.22nd Jun 1943) Jack Holmes served with the 2nd North Staffordshire Regiment and was killed in 1943.
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Pte. Frederick Edward "Frank" Roden 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment (d.27th May 1940) Unfortunately, I never saw my Uncle Frank Roden as I was born after the War.
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Cpl. Arthur Holdcroft 2nd Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.25th May 1940) Arthur Holdcroft served with the 2nd North Staffordshire Regiment. I am trying to obtain as much information about my great grand-father as possible but it is so far hard to come by.
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Sgt. George William Hallows 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment My Grandfather, George Hallows, signed up in 1931 with the Manchester Regiment, then was transferred almost immediately to the 2nd North Staffordshires. During WW2 he spent nearly 3 years in India and a year in Burma.
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Pte. William Arthur Marston 2nd Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment My Granddad Bill Marston, served originally in the East Surrey Regiment before being transferred over too the 2nd Battalion of the North Staffordshires. He was a Bren Gunner. I was told he had been shot a couple of times in action and on the one occasion blown up by a land mine, he had been left for dead until his comrade turned his knife on the medical orderly and demanded they take him, luckily he survived. He went on to serve in Palestine and was demobbed in 1947 or 48.
If anybody knows any veterans who may of known him or had mentioned him it would be nice to know.
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Stanley Jones 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment (d.6th February 1944) Stanley is buried at the Anzio War Cemetery. Died aged 19.
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Pte. Reginald Wareham 2nd Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment Reg Wareham was my great uncle and served with the North Staffs in Northern Ireland and then as part of the BEF in France. I am afraid that I do not know a lot about his story but he is said to have been so deeply affected by his evacuation from Dunkirk that for years after he would duck for cover whenever he heard the sound of a plane.
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Frank Whiting 2nd Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment My Dad, Frank Whiting served with the North Staffs but was invalided out of the Anzio landings with shrapnel behind his ear. He served in North Africa and Palestine. He never liked to talk of his war experiences as it had a profound effect on him. I would like to know more about the experiences that so affected his later life.
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