Church Parade, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
Church Parades were an important part of life within the Camps. Every Sunday or on special occasions there would have been services. Most denominations were catered for by the provision of meeting rooms ...
Civic goodbye to the 6th South Staffords, Wolverhampton
Coffee House and Rest Room, Milford Common
This poor quality image is a rare photograph of the Coffee House and Rest Room built by the Lichfield Diocesan Branch of the Church of England Temperance Society for soldiers stationed at the Army training ...
Col. and Mrs Haszard, Milford Hall
A portrait of Col. Gerald Haszard and Mrs Dyonese Haszard (nee Levett) in the Sitting Room at Milford Hall.
The daughter of William and Maud Byrd Levett of Milford Hall, Dyonese Rosamund Levett was ...
Col. and Mrs Haszard, Milford Hall
A portrait of Col. Gerald Haszard and Mrs Dyonese Haszard (nee Levett) in the library at Milford Hall.
The daughter of William and Maud Byrd Levett of Milford Hall, Dyonese Rosamund Levett was born ...
Colonel Thomas Walter Giffard
Colonel Thomas Walter Giffard (1789-1861) of Chillington Hall.
Mezzotint by J.N. Jackson after a painting by (John Prescott?) Knight.
Commemorative window, St. Luke’s Church, Cannock
This commemorative window, 'the Last Communion on the Battlefield', was given by Charles Loxton in memory of his son Charles Edward Holden Loxton, known as Edward. He was a 2nd Lieutenant in the North ...
Commonwealth War Cemetery, Cannock Chase
This postcard is titled 'The German cemetery', although it actually shows the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green on Cannock Chase. It was known locally as the 'German cemetery' until the creation ...
Commonwealth War Cemetery, Cannock Chase
This colour-tinted postcard is titled 'The German cemetery', although it actually shows the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green on Cannock Chase. It was known locally as the 'German cemetery' ...
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Broadhurst Green, Cannock Chase
The majority of the graves belong to Servicemen from both sides of the conflict who died within the Cannock Chase Camps. The majority of the men were either German Prisoners of War or New Zealanders and ...
Concert party, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
Soldiers pictured with a visiting concert party at Rugeley Camp on Cannock Chase during World War 1.
Concert Performed by Prisoners of War, Brocton Camp,
Concert performed by German Prisoners of War.
During the First World War two military camps were built on the Chase - Brocton Camp, which was located near to Anson's Bank, and Rugeley Camp which extended ...
Conferment of Freedom of Entry, Stafford
Conferment of the Freedom of Stafford to the South and North Staffordshire Regiments, Staffordshire Yeomanry and 241st Super Heavy Battery of the Royal Artillery.
Conferment of the Freedom of Burton
A civil authority may bestow (as a mark of honour) its Freedom on an individual or corporate body. This gives a Regiment the privilege of marching through the city or borough with ‘Drums Beating, Band ...
Construction of Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The rear of this photograph states Brocton Camp, early 1915 and you can see by the vast amount of timber required for the building of the huts that a large number of carpenters were employed from far ...
Construction of Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Some of the many carpenters employed to build the vast Camps of Brocton and Rugeley. They used a grey insulation board to try and keep the huts warm but with there only being one stove per soldiers hut ...
Construction of huts, Army Training Camp, unknown location
This general image of carpenters on top of huts would have been a typical sight on all the temporary Camps erected in this country during World War 1. is not possible to verify the exact location of ...
Construction workers, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The workers came from far and wide to build the Camps and some were later conscripted and trained there when the volunteer numbers started to dry up in 1916. The military railway was now being used to ...