He said: "If a young man from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent wanted to join the Army he's either followed family into the regiment or asked to become a Stafford so the county's tradition of 300 years is being dramatically let down.
Every man of the regiment was either killed in action or wounded.
During its service, 334 men of the regiment died from all causes, either killed in action, died of wounds or disease, and two were lost at sea.
Ms. Figueroa Soulet set out to tell a story that placed the regiment's history in context, rather than let it either be forgotten or reduced to the ignominy of the trials.
But on either side of them the rest of the attack had failed, leaving the regiment and the Otago Mounted Rifles isolated from the rest of the force.
During its service 369 of the regiment's men died from all causes, either killed in action, died of wounds or of disease.
In May 1810 half of the regiment accepted reassignment, while the rest chose to remain in Australia and joined either the 73rd Regiment or the Veteran Corps.
The regiment hardly needed immortalising.
He's now back with the regiment.
He was a trumpeter for the regiment.
