1886 LICHFIELD, The BARRACKS, Letter Malcolm Mackenzie, SOUTH STAFF REGT

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1886 LICHFIELD, The BARRACKS, Letter Malcolm Mackenzie, SOUTH STAFF REGT
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1886; Original Crested Letterhead of the SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT, THE BARRACKS, LICHFIELD, letter Malcolm Mackenzie to Frank Martin, Lawyer in Edinburgh
In 1853 the 1st King's Own Staffordshire Militia assembled for 28 days' training on a field in the immediate vicinity of Lichfield. A barracks was opened in Birmingham Road in 1854 as a stores for the militia. There was also accommodation for the permanent staff, which in 1861 consisted of a sergeant major and nine staff sergeants with their families. Nathaniel Hawthorne, visiting Lichfield in 1855, noted the large number of young soldiers newly recruited into the King's Own who were lounging about and looking 'as if they had a little too much ale'. Soon after the completion of the barracks at Whittington in 1880.
The Lichfield barracks
was closed. It was sold in 1891 and converted into tenements known as Victoria Square. The building was demolished in the late 1960s and bungalows were erected on the site
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1886; Original Crested Letterhead of the SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT, THE BARRACKS, LICHFIELD, letter Malcolm Mackenzie to Frank Martin, Lawyer in EdinburghIn 1853 the 1st King's Own Staffordshire Militia assembled for 28 days' training on a field in the immediate vicinity of Lichfield. A barracks was opened in Birmingham Road in 1854 as a stores for the militia. There was also accommodation for the permanent staff, which in 1861 consisted of a sergeant major and nine staff sergeants with their families. Nathaniel Hawthorne, visiting Lichfield in 1855, noted the large number of young soldiers newly recruited into the King's Own who were lounging about and looking 'as if they had a little too much ale'. Soon after the completion of the barracks at Whittington in 1880. The Lichfield barrack
Type
Billhead / Letterhead Receipt
Service
Army
EAN
Does Not apply
Country
England
England County
Staffordshire
City/Town/Village/Place
LICHFIELD
Family Surname
Mackenzie
Subject type
South Staffordshire Regiment
Era
1881-1890
Document Type
Manuscript Letter