Jubilee Stone, Rudyard
A postcard view of the Jubilee Stone in Rudyard which was erected in 1897 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
Quarried from a large split block of gritstone, the Jubilee Stone serves as the village ...
King George V and Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, Calais
King George V and Queen Mary inspecting Millicent, Fourth Duchess of Sutherland’s Ambulance Tent Unit hospital at Calais during World War I.
Millicent Fanny St. Clair Erskine was born in 1867 in ...
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry card, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Many postcards were produced for the homesick to send home to loved ones and friends. Some cards were generic and all the sender needed to do was write in their location. This one is specific to the Kings ...
Leek Battery at the Drill Hall
The 3rd Leek Battery assembled outside the Drill Hall on Alma Street, preparing for departure to the Western Front during World War I. The Drill Hall later became the Adams Butter Social Club and has ...
Leek Battery leaving for France
3rd Leek Battery passing William Sugden's Sanders Building, occupied at the time by J. Mears. On horseback is Lt. Arthur Falkner Nicholson, who was later wounded in action.
Leek Volunteers going to War, Lowe Hill, Leek
The Leek Battery set off to join the war effort right at the start of World War I.
Leigh War Memorial
The war memorial was raised to commemorate those who fell in the First World War and stands in All Saints churchyard, Leigh.
Lichfield Cathedral
A postcard view of Lichfield Cathedral published by Raphael Tuck of London, postmarked Penkridge Bank, 17 June 1915.
Sent by Cpl. J.H. Masden, who was based at the time at Rugeley Camp on Cannock Chase. ...
List of men from Berkswich killed in the Great War
Church notice: A list of men and one woman from Berkswich killed in the First World War.
In Memoriam
James L Cappell
Robert Coates
Roland Deaville
Ernest Farnsworth
Harry Felton
Marjorie ...
Lotus Factory Workers, Peace Celebrations, Stone
This group of workers celebrating Peace at the end of World War I are believed to be pictured in the Lotus Ltd. shoe factory in Cross Street, Stone. Handwritten on the reverse is the date July 18th 1919.
Lotus ...
Lotus Ltd. War Memorial, Stafford
Memorial to the memory of the men from Lotus who fell in the First World War and the Second World War. When the Lotus factory on Sandon Road was demolished in 1998, the memorial was moved to nearby John ...
Lt. Colonel Johnson’s Belt Buckle
Lt. Colonel Johnson served in the North Staffordshire Regiment for over seventeen years, and had seen action in South Africa before serving in World War One.
In September 1914 he was selected to train ...
Lt. Richard Byrd Levett, Milford Hall
Richard William Byrd Levett (1897-1917) was heir to Milford Hall and was killed in action on 10 March 1917 at Bapaume, on the Somme, while serving in the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the First World ...
M and N line huts along Old Acre Valley, Brocton Military Camp
This view of Brocton camp shows two types of accommodation hut, those for officers and those for enlisted men. The officers each had their own stove and the photograph shows the hut in the foreground ...
Major & Mrs J.L. Meakin, The Laurels, Stone
Portraits of Constance Evelyn Meakin and her husband Major James Lionel Meakin.
Major James Lionel Meakin (1874-1940) was educated at Uppingham School and was a Major in the 5th North Staffordshire ...
Marshy area near the Glacial Boulder, Cannock Chase
Drawing, charcoal and ink on paper by Robert Perry RBSA (1944-). Sketch made at Brocton Camp site on Cannock Chase, one of the First World War army training camps on Cannock Chase.
Commissioned for ...
Matthew Edward Joyce, RE (T) 2157 Sapper, Royal Engineers 492054. Born 1885
Matthew was born in 1885 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. He married Florence Alice Leadbetter in 1905. He enlisted into the Royal Engineers on 10th October 1914 and a year later was serving in ...
Memorial Chapel, St. Mary's Church, Uttoxeter
War memorial for the 1914-1918 War in the Memorial Chapel in St. Mary's Church, Uttoxeter. A carved crucifix with boards each side inscribed with the names of the fallen. The steps to pulpit can be seen ...