Dedication of Stafford War Memorial
The dedication and unveiling of the Stafford Borough War Memorial in Victoria Square 1922. The tower of St. Mary's Church is in the background.
The Borough War Memorial was unveiled in 1922 in memory ...
Digging Trenches, Saffron Walden
On the outbreak of war in August 1914, the 1/6th South Staffords, the T.A. Battalion for the Wolverhampton area, was mobilised and moved with the rest of the 46th (North Midland) Division to Luton. In ...
Dorman's Factory War Memorial, Stafford
This First World War Memorial is painted in oils on canvas and lists those employees of W.H. Dorman & Co Ltd of Stafford who fought in the 1914-18 war.
Names are listed on the main panels with additional ...
Drama Performed by German prisoners of War at Brocton Camp
German Prisoners of War taking part in a theatrical production at Brocton Camp. The play, by a Norwegian author, deals with the impact of the collapse of a business empire in a small town on the Norwegian ...
Drama Performed by Prisoners of War, Brocton Camp,
German Prisoners of War taking part in a theatrical production at Brocton Camp.
During the First World War two military camps were built on the Chase - Brocton Camp, which was located near to Anson's ...
Driver Harry Penton, Norton Canes
Harry was born into a coal mining family in Norton Canes in 1896, one of eleven children. The family moved to Cannock after 1900. Harry worked at Littleton Colliery all of his working life except for ...
Duchess of Sutherland Ambulance Tent Hospital, France
Nurses and wounded soldiers at Millicent, Fourth Duchess of Sutherland’s Ambulance Tent Unit hospital in northern France during World War I.
Millicent Fanny St. Clair Erskine was born in 1867 in ...
Duchess of Sutherland's Ambulance Tent Hospital, France
The original staff of Millicent, Fourth Duchess of Sutherland’s Red Cross Hospital in France during World War I.
Millicent Fanny St. Clair Erskine was born in 1867 in Fife. In 1884 she married Cromartie ...
Durham Light Infantry Works Company at Rugeley Camp
Back row: 1st left (with moustache ) Fred Lynn, 9th left (with moustache) Harry Thacker (of undertaker's family).
Middle row: left of man with white beard in waistcoat is Arthur Beck, right of man ...
Empire Club Plaque, Stafford
Empire Club plaque on the wall of St Chad's School Room Tipping Street in Stafford.
The plaque reads:
"S.CHAD'S SCHOOL ROOM. HERE DURING 1917 AND 1918 THE LAST TWO YEARS OF THE GREAT WAR
THE EMPIRE ...
Empress Theatre, Penkridge Bank, Cannock Chase
The Empress Theatre and Cinema was sited on Penkridge Bank. It was built to cater for the soldiers stationed at Rugeley Camp and Brocton Camp. The manager was Mr. Cook.
English Electric Co., War Memorial, at GE Stafford
This photograph shows the English Electric Co., War Memorial on its new site with the GE (General Electric) Transformer offices and factory in the background. This picture is reproduced by kind permission ...
Factory workers, Rugeley
This photograph shows a workforce of an unidentified Rugeley factory during World War I.
Postcard photographed by Bates, South Staffordshire Water works, Moors Gorse, Rugeley. Alfred Bates was a well ...
Female Munition Workers outside Siemens Factory, Stafford,
Large group of female munition workers outside Siemens factory on Lichfield Road. The banner reads 'Siemens Munition Works - What the girls are doing for the men at the Front'. The photograph was taken ...
Female Railway Workers, Stafford
During the First World War women filled the vacancies left by the men who had entered military service. These women were employed in the heavy and dirty work of cleaning engines.
They are pictured ...
Field bakery, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Men of the Army Service Corps pictured at the Field Bakery at Brocton Camp on Cannock Chase,
During the First World War two military camps were built on the Chase - Brocton Camp, which was located ...
Field bakery, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
This colourised image shows Men of the Army Service Corps at the Field Bakery at Brocton Camp on Cannock Chase,
During the First World War two military camps were built on the Chase - Brocton Camp, ...
Firing practice, Great War Camps, Cannock Chase
Although this card is applicable to both Brocton and Rugeley Camps it includes rare images of recruits undertaking firing practice. It demonstrates the recruits in one of the firing positions that were ...