Mobilisation Day, Burton upon Trent
Lantern slide view of crowds outside the Drill Hall on Horninglow Street, Mobilisation Day at the outbreak of the First World War, 1914.
Copyright: Burton Library
Outside the entrance to Whittington Barracks, nr Lichfield
A recruiting poster for the Guards can be seen on the wall behind the soldiers here.
Prospective recruits visit RAF Stafford
Prospective candidates considering making a career in the RAF are shown around the RAF Stafford site. In the background there is a Gloster Javelin aircraft with a Firestreak air to air missile and on ...
Public Dinner - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Organising a Public Dinner for the local volunteer corps
Hand-written letter seeking subscriptions from local businessmen for a public dinner in honour of the Longport Volunteer Corps "return from ...
Setting up a Volunteer Corps - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
The Defence and Preservation of KING and Country
Printed public notice announcing the resolutions from a meeting that took place in the Legs of Man in Burslem on July 28th, 1803.
A number of businessmen ...
The Loyal Pottery Volunteer Cavalry - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Printed notice announcing the decisions made at a meeting on May 1st 1798 at the Swann Inn, Hanley.
The meeting was due to discuss arrangements for the Pottery Volunteer Cavalry and to enlist more ...
The Recruiting Sergeant or The King's Shilling
Oil painting by an unknown artist. This painting has been tentatively attributed to the Victorian genre painter Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817-1880).
The painting appears to have been inspired by the Volunteer ...
To the Householders Residing in Burslem, Tunstall, Longport and Cobridge - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Printed notice from H. Henshall requesting that residents of Burslem, Tunstall, Longport and Cobridge attend a meeting on May 15th 1798.
The meeting was called to discuss the formation of a local defence ...
Tunstall Volunteers - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Printed notice highlighting the resolutions from a meeting, which took place on August 8th, 1803, at the Lamb Inn, Tunstall.
At the meeting, local inhabitants and manufacturers decided to form a volunteer ...
Volunteer Corps Business - Burslem July 29th 1803 - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Volunteer Corps
The French Revolution in 1789 signalled the start of a very turbulent period in European history.
During the 1790s the French Revolutionary government waged war on much of Europe, ...
Volunteer Soldiers Leaving Stone Station,
By Christmas 1914 over four hundred Stone men were in uniform.