Enoch Wood presents his most respectful compliments - Hand Written Note from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Enoch Wood's reply to an invite from the Longport Corps., who have asked him to dinner.
Enoch Wood presents his most respectful compliments to Major Williamson and the officers of the Longport Corps ...
Ernie Hazlehurst in North Africa
Ernie Hazlehurst of Stone is pictured on the right in North Africa. Ernie was a builder by trade but also played football on several occasions in 1923 for Port Vale Football Club and later for Stone ...
Fancy Dress, Whittington Barracks
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 ...
First World War photographs by Frederick Everitt of Clayton, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Frederick Everitt lived at 'Sunnyside' on Northwood Lane, Clayton in the early part of the 20th century.
He was employed as a chauffeur and was an amateur photographer.
Whilst at home on leave he took ...
Former Battalion Headquarters, North Staffordshire Regiment, College Road, Hanley
This building was the Headquarters and Drill Hall of the Hanley Companies of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment between 1837 and 1897. The tablet over the main entrance has ...
Forsbrook Road, Blythe Bridge. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Forsbrook Road, Blythe Bridge, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
A soldier and a postman pose for the photograph as a cyclist rides by.
Francis 'Frank' Joyce, born 1913
Frank was born on 27th March 1913 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. He married Doris Scott on 9th February 1940. Frank served in Dunkirk during WWII. He died in 1968.
Freda, Regimental Mascot of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Freda, the Harlequin Great Dane was loved by all who came into contact with her as she was very busy representing the New Zealand Rifle Brigade at numerous functions and fund raising events. She also ...
Freda's Grave, Cannock Chase
The grave marks the last resting place of Freda a Harlequin Great Dane dog who was the faithful mascot of the 5th Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade (NZRB). It stands close to the Coppice Hill car park ...
Frederick Arthur Dykes, 323166 Sapper Royal Engineers. Born 1894.
Frederick Dykes was born in 1894 in Staffordshire. At the outbreak of WWI he was a railway signalman, living in Talke, Staffordshire. He saw overseas service in France and was demobbed on 17th March 1919. ...
Freedom of Entry into the Borough for the Army and the RAF, Stafford
The Army and the RAF Parade before the Mayor of Stafford, Councillor Brian Price, outside the Shire Hall in Market Square, Stafford. On the left service personnel from the Army 22 Signals Regiment and ...
Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
Lithograph print. A caricature of Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913) by 'Ape'. Appeared in 'Vanity Fair' April 18th 1874. He was a British Army Officer serving in Burma, the Crimean ...
Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913) was a British Army Officer serving in Burma, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, China, Canada, and widely throughout Africa. For his services ...
General Post Office, Brocton Camp
One of the most frequented buildings in the Camp would have been the General Post Office. At Brocton Camp it was situated alongside the main Chase Road between 'I' and 'M' Battalion Lines. It is the building ...
George Ambrose Lloyd, M.P. for West Staffordshire
This postcard was published to celebrate the election of George Ambrose Lloyd as the Liberal Unionist M.P. for the West Staffordshire Constituency in 1910.
At the time West Staffordshire had 21 electoral ...