New Zealand Rifle Brigade, Reserve Depot, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Three special trains moved the 5th Reserve Battalion from Salisbury Plains to Brocton on 27 September 1917. They initially used "H" Lines which is where this photograph was taken but as more of them arrived ...
Nobel Challenge Cup Winners at RAF Stafford
Competition winners with the Nobel Challenge Cup following the 1959 contest held at RAF Stafford.
Back row: Ch/Tech. Jones, SAC. Ireland, Cpl. Hughes, Cpl. Brunt, Sgt. Millington, F/Sgt. Arnold. Front ...
North Staffords in camp at Wellington, South Africa, during the Boer War
After the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, the 4th (Militia) Battalion, North Staffords, was ‘embodied’ in January 1900 and arrived in South Africa in March, serving there until May 1902. For much of ...
North Staffordshire Regiment
The 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment pictured in 1939.
Notts & Derby Regiment soldier, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A bandsman of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment pictured outside a hut at Brocton Camp. This young man is proud to send home his portrait in full bandsman uniform and is informing his mother, ...
Novelty postcard, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A novelty postcard of comforts for the troops with the following rhyme: “Cakes and smokes that travelled miles / reached sunny France brought sunny smiles”.
A number of generic novelty postcards were ...
NZRB in the snow, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
It must have been a long hard winter as another postcard shows the New Zealanders playing in the snow in late 1917, but it obviously has not dampened their spirits.
NZRB in the snow, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The New Zealanders are playing happily in the snow of 1917 which must have arrived not long after they came to Brocton Camp in the September of that year. Named the ‘Cannock Chase Reserve Centre’ the ...
NZRB Rifleman, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Rifleman L.M. Blyth, 4th Battalion New Zealand Rifle Brigade, stationed at Brocton Camp 1917 to 1918. Later on in World War I Lawrence Morris Blyth was promoted to Sergeant and later on in his military ...
NZRB soldier, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
An unidentified New Zealand Rifle Brigade soldier, stationed at Brocton Camp. Postcard portrait photographed by Duncans, 15 Allenby Road, Hull and Camp View, Brocton, Staffordshire
NZRB soldiers, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Two good friends from the New Zealand Rifle Brigade pose for their studio photograph. One of them has written on the reverse: "My mate Jim Grey, an ugly old devil isn't he".
NZRB soldiers, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Three unidentified New Zealand Rifle Brigade soldiers pictured in a photograph taken at a local studio to be sent back home to loved ones. The local photographers must have had been kept very busy with ...
Officers and Service Personnel at RAF Stafford
Service personnel gathered for the photographer at an unidentified event at RAF Stafford.
RAF Stafford was formed 1 December 1939 following the purchase by the Treasury of 362 acres of land near Stafford. ...
Officers' Club, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The Officers' Clubs were separate from the other ranks and it is interesting to see in this photograph that at the end of the room there appears to be an open fireplace instead of the usual coal-fired ...
Officers' Club, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
This Concert Room would be in the Officers' Mess which was between the two Officers Quarters Huts detailed in the 1916 map of Rugeley Camp. Each of the 20 Battalion Lines were almost identical in layout ...
Old Camp Road, Brocton Camp
Officers' Huts line the left-hand side of the road between Battalion lines 'R' and 'S'. In the distance the road begins to bend slightly to the right at its junction with what is now Chase Road to the ...
Oldacre Valley, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The sandy soil has been disturbed to lay sewer pipes (centre left to the middle of the photograph) from the Camp heading down to the filter beds at the end of Old Acre Lane. In the centre of the photograph ...
Oldacre Valley, Brocton, Cannock Chase
Long before the gravel pit was opened at the bottom of Old Acre Lane, Brocton there were fields lined with hedgerows. The land rising to the right is Tar Hill where "J" Lines were situated. Centre of ...