The Recruiting Sergeant or The King's Shilling
Oil painting by an unknown artist. This painting has been tentatively attributed to the Victorian genre painter Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817-1880).
The painting appears to have been inspired by the Volunteer ...
The Station Farm, RAF Stafford
The RAF Stafford Station Farm was used as a training centre for service personnel who were to be demobbed and wished to take up new skills in farming, animal management, gardening and crop cultivation. ...
The Station Football Team at RAF Stafford
Back row (left to right): S/LDR NH Potts (officer I/C Soccer), SAC Inglis, LAC Hopkirk, AC Petrie, SAC Robbins, AC Trainor, SAC Kennedy, W/CDR. GM Gibson and Mr T Lee (Trainer).
Front row: SAC Barker, ...
The Station Sports Day at RAF Stafford
Spectators pictured during the Station Sports Day.
RAF Stafford was formed 1 December 1939 following the purchase by the Treasury of 362 acres of land near Stafford. The main site was at Beaconside ...
The Station Trophy Winners at RAF Stafford
Pictured is Air Commodore King with all the Station sporting trophy winners and their trophies.
RAF Stafford was formed 1 December 1939 following the purchase by the Treasury of 362 acres of land near ...
The Wedding of George and Irene Brew, Rugeley
George and Irene Brew (nee Acton) are pictured at their wedding at St Augustine’s Church in Rugeley. After the ceremony a reception was held in the Cabin public house (later this became the Vaults), by ...
The WRAF return to RAF Stafford
The WRAF return to RAF Stafford after an absence of ten years. They are pictured being greeted by the Station Commander, Group Captain E D Hills who later retired as an Air-Vice Marshall.
RAF Stafford ...
Third Anniversary of the Home Guard Parade, Market Place, Uttoxeter
The gentleman saluting is the Wing Commander. Also in the photograph is Colonel E.G. Thompson.
Third anniversary parade of the Uttoxeter Home Guard
The parade took place on the 16th May 1943. Here the soldiers are being inspected in Market Place by Major T.B. Bagshaw, Lieutenant Colonel L.R. Godfrey, and Colonel Thompson.
Tom and Marie 'Daisy' Penton, Norton Canes
Tom married Marie 'Daisy' Griffiths in Stafford in May 1917.
Tom was born into a coal mining family in Norton Canes in 1889, the oldest son in a family of eleven children. The family moved to Cannock ...
Tom Penton, Norton Canes
Tom was born into a coal mining family in Norton Canes in 1889, the oldest son in a family of eleven children. The family moved to Cannock after 1900.
Tom served in the First World War in the Royal ...
Tom Simpson of Burslem
Tom Simpson is the man sitting down. This photograph was taken in France, during the First World War. Tom was in the Army Veterinary Corps, and was connected to the West Riding of Yorkshire Regiment.
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Trainees with biplane, RAF Hednesford
RAF Hednesford trained recruits in engine and airframe fitting. In addiction to RAF personnel, members of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm and WAAF (Womens' Auxiliary Air Force) were trained. Biplanes were ...
Training staff from the New Zealand Rifle Brigade at Brocton Camp
These ANZAC (New Zealand) soldiers belonging to the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (NZRB) were the Physical and Bayonet Training Staff attached to Brocton Camp.
After fighting at the Somme and at the Messines ...
Troops on board S.S.Aurania
1st South Staffords on board S.S. Aurania wearing their 'Cold weather' uniform. Embarking for the South African War, Southampton, March 1900.
TSO Course at RAF Stafford
Among those attending the TSO (Tactical Supply Operators) Course 03/01, which took place on 23 September to 26 October 2001, are: Flt Lt Kingsman, Sgt Campell, SAC(W) Burnton, SAC Doull, SAC Duke, SAC ...
Uniform badges, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Photograph of two textile badges from the uniform belonging to Gladys Harvey: Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and Army Service Corps. Rugeley born Gladys Harvey was enrolled on 13 September 1917 and discharged ...
Unveiling of the Nicholson War Memorial, Leek
The memorial tablet has just been unveiled from behind the Union Jack by Lieutenant General Sir Charles Harrington, GBE, KCB, DSO (GOC Northern Command), and dedicated by the Bishop of Stafford. Sir Arthur ...