Twins

This Staffordshire soldier with "80" painted on his crossbelt in an officer of the Eightieth Regiment of Foot. This regiment was raised in Staffordshire in 1793, at the onset of the Anglo-French wars. In 1802 it absorbed the Staffordshire Volunteers and changed its name to the Eightieth Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers). I had long admired this plucky fellow in the Hunt Collection. He is…