Conferment of the Freedom of Burton
A civil authority may bestow (as a mark of honour) its Freedom on an individual or corporate body. This gives a Regiment the privilege of marching through the city or borough with ‘Drums Beating, Band ...
Constructing huts at Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Pictured are local workers taking a break from erecting one of the wooden huts which made up Brocton Camp.
The soldiers being trained at the two military camps on Cannock Chase during World War 1 lived ...
Construction of Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The rear of this photograph states Brocton Camp, early 1915 and you can see by the vast amount of timber required for the building of the huts that a large number of carpenters were employed from far ...
Construction of Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Some of the many carpenters employed to build the vast Camps of Brocton and Rugeley. They used a grey insulation board to try and keep the huts warm but with there only being one stove per soldiers hut ...
Construction of huts, Army Training Camp, unknown location
This general image of carpenters on top of huts would have been a typical sight on all the temporary Camps erected in this country during World War 1. is not possible to verify the exact location of ...
Construction workers, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The workers came from far and wide to build the Camps and some were later conscripted and trained there when the volunteer numbers started to dry up in 1916. The military railway was now being used to ...
Construction workers, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Local railway stock from West Cannock Colliery was requisitioned to haul the raw materials to build the Camps. This image shows London and North Western Railway rolling stock and may well be in the very ...
Control Tower, Perton Airfield
Shown here during conversion into a private residence, this building was the Control Tower at Perton Airfield during and after World War II. It was later used as the base of Perton Youth Club but has ...
Convalescent soldiers, Cheadle
A group of soldiers on leave in standing outside Cheadle Town Hall. Most appear to be wearing 'Hospital Blues'. The poster in the archway advertises the Osborne Cinema.
The Town Hall was built in ...
Convalescing soldiers at Ravenhill House, Brereton
The house had been briefly unoccupied when, in March 1915, the War Office intimated that Lady Zouche had offered the house as a V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detached) Hospital to be operated by the Red Cross ...
Convalescing soldiers, Ravenhill House, Brereton
Ravenhill House had been briefly unoccupied when, in March 1915, the War Office intimated that Lady Zouche had offered the house as a V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detached) Hospital to be operated by the Red ...
Cook and Helpers at the Cooking Range, Uttoxeter schoolboys Farm Camp, Lower Cowley Farm, Gnosall
When the schoolboys and their leaders arrived at their campsite for the second year camp, they noticed several welcome improvements. They didn't have to build their own stove, instead there was a large ...
Cookery Class, Sutherland Institute, Longton
A cookery class at the Sutherland Institute, Longton with the caption: "The Cheerless Air of English Cooks Under the "U" Boat Menace. April 1917."
Photographer: William Blake of Longton.
Cook's staff and Prisoners of War, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
There was a Prisoner of War Camp at Brocton Camp from 1917 to 1919. Five of the twenty Battalion Lines were used to house the German prisoners. Each Battalion Line had its own Cookhouse and there was ...
Corporal Alfred Wood, Stafford
A studio portrait of Corporal Alfred (Alf) Wood 201974, North Staffordshire Regiment.
Before the war he was an assistant at Messrs. Watkins, Price and Webb's grocers on Eastgate Street, Stafford. ...
Corporal Alfred Wood, Stafford
A remembrance card for Corporal Alfred (Alf) Wood 201974, North Staffordshire Regiment.
Before the war he was an assistant at Messrs. Watkins, Price and Webb's grocers on Eastgate Street, Stafford. ...
Corporal Harry Poole and horse
Harry Poole was employed an under keeper for the Earl of Shrewsbury at Ingestre under Donald MacDonald in 1914. He served in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during World War I and returned to Ingestre ...
Corps of Drums, 1st North Staffordshire Regiment, Dinapore, India
Until India was granted its independence in 1947, there was a large part of the British Army that was integrated with the Indian Army – ‘policing’ the Empire’, and keeping order in case of racial tension ...