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 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 Workers, Brocton Military Camp,
Gladys Harvey (standing) and Ada Potter, who worked in the canteen at Brocton Camp.
Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ground since the 1870s. During the First World War two military ...
Cap Badges, Cannock Chase Army Camps
Cap badges representing military units stationed on Cannock Chase between 1915 and 1919.
Top row, left to right: Royal Artillery; Royal Engineers; Northumberland Fusiliers, Royal Fusiliers (City of ...
Captain Walter Norris Congreve
Ogden's British cigarette card, showing Captain Walter Norris Congreve (1862-1927).
Walter Norris Congreve was the son of William and Fanny E. Congreve of Castle Church, Stafford. He served in the ...
Captured German Field Gun, Froghall
This captured field gun is strapped on the back of a railway wagon, pictured on the Froghall Junction line between Froghall Junction and Froghall Wharf in the Churnet valley. The sign attached to the ...
Carpenters and Sherwood Foresters at Brocton Military Camp
The soldiers being trained at the two military camps on Cannock Chase lived in prefabricated huts. These huts were under construction from late 1914 and were largely built by civilian workmen who were ...
Carpenters at Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Soldiers and no doubt the foreman of the carpenters pose for a photograph with their tools and pet dog. Workmen came from far and wide once the contracts to build the Camps were awarded. Little did some ...
Celebration meal, Rugeley
Celebration meal for soldiers returning after the First World War, held in the Market Hall. It is likely that this is the event held on 29th November 1919 when some of the returning men were presented ...
Chase Road Corner, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
This photograph was taken in 1979 by Jake Whitehouse and shows reproduces a scene of a Great War postcard where a horse and cart had come around the bend of the road toward Brocton. On the bend today ...
Chase Road Corner, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
This is one of the few concrete structures that was not removed from Brocton Camp when Lord Lichfield had the area restored to a Grouse Moor. The main structure was the weighbridge for the coal that was ...
Chase Road, Brocton Camp, Cannock chase
This photograph, taken in 1982, shows Chase Road just before it descends into Brocton. On the left would have been Battalion Line "J" of the Camp with the Guard House and Commanding Officers Office in ...
Chase Road, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
As Chase Road climbs out of Brocton and levels out, it passes the former Battalion Lines "H" and "I" where there are remains of the area in which the New Zealand Rifle Brigade were stationed. You would ...
Chase Road, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Whilst Jake Whitehouse was preparing his book 'A Town for Four Winters', he toured the Chase and took photographs of where certain parts of the Camp were originally located. This was a very interesting ...
Chase View
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 along Penkridge Bank. The two camps were separated ...
Chasetown Committee for World War I widows and families, Cannock Chase Cricket Club
Children at the back of the Smithy in Pattingham
The picture probably includes Alfred, Thomas & William Price with their friends, in about 1902.
Chilton family, Sandon
Joseph Joseph and Lillian Alice Chilton with son Reginald Joseph Chilton in about 1917. Joseph was working on the Sandon Estate at the time he signed up to serve with the Royal Field Artillery during ...