Private Wayne Gary Smith died as a result of a road traffic accident on 1st  July 1995, while on deployment in Northern Ireland  . 

Service Number: 25029874

He was born on 9th March 1977 and was aged 18.

​He was laid to rest at St Marks Churchyard, Winshill, Burton-upon-Trent. Grave Number 
N Q95.

Sgt Dean Oliver of 1st Battalion, the Staffordshire Regiment, died of a non-terrorist shooting incident on the 9th May 1992.

Service Number: 24523833

He was born on 2nd March 1962 and was aged 30.

He is laid to rest at Municipal Cemetery, Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Grave number 4180.

Private Mark Anthony Mason of the Staffordshire Regiment, died 15th August 1989.

Service Number: 24815293
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He was attached to the the Royal Hampshire Regiment, in 4th platoon part of B company. He had volunteered for service in Northern Ireland.

Sadly Mark died while on Sanger duty, he sustained a fatal gun shot wound to the body.

He was born on the 28th December 1970 and was aged 18.

L/Cpl Stephen Edward Anderson of 1st Battalion, the Staffordshire Regiment, died on 29th May 1984.

Service Number: 24589020

He was killed by a landmine whilst on foot patrol at Mounthill, near Crossmaglen, in South Armagh. 

He was sadly killed on his second wedding anniversary, aged 22. Stephen was a former pupil of Kingsmead school in Hednesford.

Born on 4 May 1964 he was aged 35.

He is buried in Bedale Cemetery, North Yorkshire, DL8 1XL. Grave Section M, Grave Number
18.

Private ​Carl Baskeyfield died on the 12th May 1984 in road traffic accident during the South Armagh. 

​Service Number: 24558650

He sadly died on his first day of R and R.

Born on 21st August 1964 and was aged 19.

He is laid to rest in Biddulph Parish Church cemetery.

Private Christopher Shenton of 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment died on 20th January 1981.

Service Number: 24497200

He died aged 21, after being shot by a sniper at Castle Gate, City Walls, Londonderry, while on foot patrol.

They were closing security gates on the city walls at Castle Gate in Londonderry when the  attack occurred, at around 7:30PM. A number of high velocity shots had been fired from the Waterloo Street area. The bullet that killed Pte Shenton passed through the security gate. He was shot in the back and another soldier was wounded. CHristopher died instantly.

After training at Whittington Barracks (where he won the Medal for best S.L R shot of his platoon), Christopher joined the 1st Battalion at Colchester in February 1977, and immediately went with the Battalion to exercise in Kenya. He subsequently trained at Lydd, Hythe and Stanford, and moved to Londonderry with his company in August 1979. 

At the military funeral at Dresden, near Longdon, Stone-on-Trent, on Wednesday 28th January, there were in congregation (which overflowed the church) a large number of his fellow soldiers, who had arrived on leave the evening before. The funeral was also attended by the Colonel of the regiment, the Commanding officer, of 1st Battalion and numerous civic representatives, as well as the association and wider regimental family. 

He was born on 20th March 1959 and his nickname was Sharky. 

Second Lieutenant Michael John Simpson of 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, died on 23rd October 1974.

Service Number: 497510

He was shot by a sniper three weeks previously at the junction of Racecourse Road and Greenhaw Crescent in Londonderry. He was hit in the stomach and the bullet went through his body and hit another soldier in the arm. As Lt. Simpson was lying fatally injured, he managed to report the incident on his radio.

​He was from Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex. 

Born on 25 November 1952 he was aged 21.

S/Sgt ​John Michael Morrell died on 24th October 1972.

​Service Number: 23916709

S/Sgt John Morrell, 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, died following fatal injures sustained in a bomb attack in South Armagh on the 15th October. His patrol was searching vacant house near border when an IRA device exploded.

Five soldiers from the Staffordshire Regiment were hurt, one very seriously. They were lured into a booby-trapped house in Armagh. 

A second booby trap, wired to a shotgun, was also found in the house.

The five men who were injured were the Staffords' first casualties since the regiment started its first stint in Ulster. Most seriously hurt was Colour Sergeant John Morrell who had to be airlifted to hospital in Belfast by helicopter

The Colour Sergeant was with a patrol which was alerted after a tip off to Armagh CID that a number of terrorist gunmen were holed up at two houses in the Drumarg Park area of the town.

Regimental Secretary Colonel Hugh Cook said: "The tip off was obviously a trick to lure our men into the terrorists trap."

Born on 27 July 1940 he was aged 32, and married with three children.

He is buried in Macclesfield Borough Cemetery.  Grave Section Y, Grave Number 17449.