Autumn Manoeuvres on Cannock Chase
Miss Robinson's National Temperance League refreshment tent pictured with a Gypsy caravan during military manoeuvres at Etching Hill on Cannock Chase, Autumn 1873.
Major-General Lyson's encampment ...
Auxillary Territorial Service's Non Commissioned Officers course, Whittington Barracks
Bath hut remains, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
Remains of shower trays from cubicles in a World War 1 bath hut at Rugeley Camp.
Bath hut remains, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
The footings for a World War 1 bath hut at Rugeley Camp on Cannock Chase, near the White House. The young woman is pointing out the bases of shower trays.
Battalion National Anthem, NZRB, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
This verse appears to refer to The "Dinks" - the New Zealand Rifle Brigade that served at Brocton Camp. The wording suggests they will not be stationed there much longer. They arrived at Brocton in September ...
Boys Brigade Parade, near Cannock
A Boys Brigade parade near Cannock town centre. In the distance to the right can be seen the tower of St.Luke's Church.
Brindley Valley, Cannock Chase
This is Brindley Heath Road in 1980, one of a number of photographs Jake Whitehouse took of locations that feature in postcards from the Great War era. This is the route that the military railway took ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
In the only flat area in Old Acre Valley an assault course was built, with what appears to be a running track. In the foreground is one of the barbed wire entanglements to train the troops in the construction ...
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 ...
Burton Red Cross inspection, Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent
Burton Red Cross inspection at an Army field kitchen training day held at Stanton Road Brickfields, Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent. Carrying out the inspection is Major Winslow RAMC of the Military Hospital, ...
Camp Post Office, Chase Road, Brocton
A view of the Camp Post Office, Chase Road, Brocton Camp during World War 1.
Oil and board painting by Jake Whitehouse. Painted in 1984, based on an original postcard from about 1917.
Cannock Chase
In the early 1980s Jake Whitehouse took photographs of views of where the Camps once stood. This one unfortunately does not specify its location and it is not possible to identify the view. It is more ...
Cannock Chase views
Five views on and around Cannock Chase and Hednesford: No. 3 Pit, west Cannock Colliery, Hednesford; The Camp, Cannock Chase; West Cannock Colliery, Hednesford; Hednesford, from Church Hill; near the ...
Cannock Chase views
Five views of the Cannock Chase landscape.
The writer says he is "walking around half asleep" and comments on how nice the area is. As there is no mention of military service he may have been a civilian ...
Cannock Chase views
Postcard published by W.H. Smith & Son, Stafford. Postmarked 15 November 1915 and sent from Brocton Camp by a soldier serving in the 9th (Reserve) Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment.
Canteen staff, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Four women wearing Army Catering Corps overalls and a boy in a suit and waistcoat. They are pictured in the doorway of a hut at Brocton Camp.
Canteen staff, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A group of seven people standing and seated outside a hut at Brocton Camp. The cook is in the front row, far right. Standing back right is Gladys Harvey of Rugeley who served in the Women's Auxiliary ...
Canteen, Post Office Training Centre, Yarnfield
This photograph of catering staff serving meals to staff and trainees at the Post Office Training Centre was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon.
The General Post Office Engineering Department, ...