Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
8th Training Reserve Battalion at the top of Chase Road in "J" Lines before it descends down into Brocton village. Behind the four standard accommodation huts is the Regimental Institute and the building ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
These are predominately young soldiers in training and have a button as a cap badge before being sent as reinforcements to an allocated Regiment. Brocton used to put the Battalion Line letter as well ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Officer's Huts are on the left foreground showing individual stove chimneys coming out of each compartmentalized room. Some suspended hay sacks are visible on the right slope for bayonet practice.
The ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
"K", "L" and "M" Lines on the eastern slope of Old Acre Valley. There are a number of tents erected so it may have been early on in the development of Brocton Camp. Most of these postcards tended to have ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The farmhouse is in front of the training areas for "E" and "F" Battalion Lines. In front of the huts are straw sacks suspended from frames for bayonet practice and nearby there would have been trenches ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A postcard view of Brocton Camp showing the undulating terrain of the north-eastern slopes of Old Acre Valley with “J” Battalion Line in the far distance on Tar Hill, above Brocton Village. The other ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The lighter huts in the lower part of the postcard are the Officers' Huts for "L" Lines to the left and "M" Lines to the right. Besides a truck driving up the hillside, what appears to be a steam traction ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
"N" and "O" Lines on the eastern slope of Old Acre Valley. The long roof line in the centre of the image at the back is the Ordnance Store. The layout of Brocton's main stores and ancillary buildings ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Two soldiers from a Scottish Regiment, one in a kilt, the other in plaid trousers stride across Old Acre Valley with "O" lines behind them and the ever present Water Tower. The long building on the far ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The eastern slope of Old Acre Valley with the 30,000 gallon Water Tower to the right. The long roof line in the centre of the image at the back is the Ordnance Store. The layout of Brocton's main stores ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
In this postcard caption 'R.B.' refers to one of the many reserve Battalions that trained at Brocton Camp. The cart is heading down Chase Road towards Brocton Village. The original track can be seen ...
Brocton Military Camp
Chase Road Corner. The Anson's Bank portion of Brocton Camp lies in the background. Alternate image is a digitally colourised version of the image.
Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ...
Brocton Military Camp,
Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ground since the 1870s. During the First World War two military camps were built on the Chase - Brocton Camp, which was located near to Anson's Bank, ...
Brocton Village
A postcard view of road works in Brocton along with a group of labourers there is a steam roller on the right in the background, also on the right is a soldier possibly from the nearby Brocton Camp.
This ...
Brocton Village
This postcard view of Brocton was sent from Brocton Camp on 2 April 1918 to an address in New Zealand.
Brocton Village
The Green, Brocton. Postcard published by W.H. Smith & Son, Stafford. The message on the reverse is from Joe, a soldier at Brocton Camp to his mother. He writes that he has started firing training ...
Brucheville Hall, Normandy, France
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
Bungalow on Cannock Chase, Brocton
This wooden bungalow stood next to what is now the site of the gravel pit at Brocton. It was originally built for a Canadian stationed on The Chase between 1914-1918.
After the war, it was the home ...