Staffordshire Rangers

Staffordshire Rangers 5th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment 41st Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery
Active	30 September 1859
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Territorial Army
Role	Infantry Air Defence
Garrison/HQ	Stoke-on-Trent
Nickname(s)	The Potters
Engagements	WWI: Loos Somme Bucquoy Lens 3rd Ypres Cambrai German spring offensive WWII: Blitz North West Europe

The Staffordshire Rangers was a volunteer unit of the British Army from the 'Potteries' area around Stoke-on-Trent. It fought on the Western Front in World War I as the 5th Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment. In World War II it served as a Royal Artillery searchlight regiment in Home Defence and was the first complete searchlight unit to land in North-Western Europe after the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944. Its successors continue to serve in the Army Reserve (previously the Territorial Army) as part of the Mercian Regiment.