Description:Although this card is applicable to both Brocton and Rugeley Camps it includes rare images of recruits undertaking firing practice. It demonstrates the recruits in one of the firing positions that were usually created at one hundred yard intervals on the eight full-bore rifle ranges built on Cannock Chase. Once they had perfected the use of the smaller .22 rifle in one of the many indoor rifle ranges they would then progress to the .303 rifle on the outdoor ones. Recruits that were already proficient with a rifle would normally be allocated to the successful sniper school. These men were normally gamekeepers from the many stately homes in the country at the time. Evidence of the firing ranges can still be found on Cannock Chase today.
A souvenir postcard and verse published by T.H. Pemberton, 35 Leigh Street, Burslem. It is dated Sunday 9 September (1917). The message on the reverse reads "...we have not heard yet when and where we are going to, but we are not leaving until next week…"