Burslem Volunteers - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
The formation of a volunteer corps
Printed notice by Enoch Wood, dated August 15th 1803, announcing a meeting at Legs of Man public house in Burslem.
The purpose of the meeting, to discuss the formation ...
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, ...
Burton Red Cross, Wychnor Park
The Burton branch of the British Red Cross Society at a Staffordshire Yeomanry field day held at Wychnor Park. Seated in the middle of the front row are Hugh Charrington and Mrs Charrington, who was ...
Burton Red Cross, Wychnor Park
The Burton branch of the British Red Cross Society at a Staffordshire Yeomanry field day held at Wychnor Park. Red Cross members are practicing treating 'patients', played by local Scouts. The Medical ...
Burton Red Cross, Wychnor Park
The Burton branch of the British Red Cross Society at a Staffordshire Yeomanry field day held at Wychnor Park. Red Cross nurses are practicing treating 'patients', played by local Scouts, in temporary ...
Camp at Lichfield of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, North Staffords
The Militia was a part-time volunteer force similar to the Territorial Army today. In 1881 the King’s Own Staffordshire Militia was incorporated into the two County Regiments, forming the 3rd and 4th ...
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.
Camp Road, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
This photograph shows a section of Old Camp Road, close to the Sycamore's where "S" and "T" Battalion Lines were laid out. In the distance is Chase Road where it meets the main road as it bends to the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Capt. H.C. Warner, Home Guard, Pattingham
Captain Warner was 2nd in charge of 'D' Company, pattingham. This Company was based at The Pigot Arms, Pattingham.
Capt. Margaret Barclay, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
On 11th July 1982, Captain Margaret Barclay of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps arrived in the Falkland Islands after an 8,000 mile voyage. From Eccleshall in Staffordshire, she served ...
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 ...