Staffordshire Rifles
Colonel Richard Byrd Levett (1810-1888) of Milford Hall is in the middle row, seated 3rd from the left. The Staffordshire Rifles, along with other volunteer rifle and milita organisations were amalgamated ...
Staffordshire Yeomanry, Abbots Bromley
These men are a mixture of ranks, they are seen here standing and sitting in front of a stable block to the west of the Bagot Arms Public House, Bagot Street, Abbots Bromley.
Territorials outside Tamworth Castle Bandstand
Photograph of 'C' company, 6th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment (Territorials) in front of the Bandstand in the Castle Grounds, in about 1905.
Thomas Henry Alder, 1429835 Royal Artillery. Born 1920
Thomas Alder was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire on 28th January 1920. He joined the Royal Artillery on 11th July 1938 and was posted to 213 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery. He was billeted in St. Michael’s ...
Thomas Herbert Alder, 80601 RAMC. P Company. Born 1888
Thomas Alder was born 16th September 1888 in Portsmouth , Hampshire. He returned to England from Canada in 1914, at the start of WWI, enlisting in the RAMC. He was posted to Blackpool, Lancashire on 13th ...
Tom and Marie 'Daisy' Penton, Norton Canes
Tom married Marie 'Daisy' Griffiths in Stafford in May 1917.
Tom was born into a coal mining family in Norton Canes in 1889, the oldest son in a family of eleven children. The family moved to Cannock ...
Tom Penton, Norton Canes
Tom was born into a coal mining family in Norton Canes in 1889, the oldest son in a family of eleven children. The family moved to Cannock after 1900.
Tom served in the First World War in the Royal ...
Two North Staffordshire Heroes
Left: Corporal Ernest A. Egerton of The Sherwood Foresters, awarded the Victoria Cross.
Right: Lance-Sergeant John H. Rhodes of The Grenadier Guards awarded the Victoria Cross.
Printed on the back ...
USAAF aircrew, Yarnfield
USAAF aircrew with Mr Cyril Harrison, Barclays Bank manager at Stone, who died in 1945, not long after this photograph was taken. United States Army Air Force personnel were based at transit camps in ...
Uttoxeter ACF
Three of the Army Cadet Force leaders are named in the photograph. Seated on chairs on the front row are Edward Wilson, Chemistry master at Thomas Alleynes High School and member of the town's Home Guard ...
Uttoxeter ACF march-past, Market Place, Uttoxeter
At the head of the procession is Sam Elkes, proprietor of Elkes' Biscuits, Edward Wilson, Chemistry master at Thomas Alleynes High School and member of the Uttoxeter Home Guard, and to his right, Paddy ...
Uttoxeter Home Guard
The only member of the Home Guard to be named in this picture is Edward Wilson, who is sat on the right-hand table smoking a pipe.
The location is given as a bridge on the "Derby By-Pass" (the A50).
WAAF Wing Voluntary Band, at RAF Hednesford camp
The band are pictured here with their great dane mascot.
No buildings remain on the site of the camp, but all of the original roadways are still present.
Wedding of NZRB soldier and Staffordshire girl
When the New Zealand Rifle Brigade came to Brocton Camp in 1917 they had quite an impact on the local area and were well liked. Some, like this soldier, married local girls. The card was sent from Sam ...
Women’s Royal Naval Service training station, Mill Meece
A group of WRENS at HMS Fledgling E-15, Mill Meece. Mrs Chrys Hill (nee Wood), is sitting in the front row third in from the right.
HMS Fledgling.
In April 1943 the Admiralty decided to release ...
Wounded soldiers from WW1 with a Red Cross Nurse, College Lane School, Tamworth
During the 1914-1918 War, wounded soldiers were billeted at College Lane School and the resident caretaker Mrs Ada Hillman (pictured here) was the Red Cross Nurse in charge. This photograph was taken ...