Roll of Honour, Christ Church, Stafford
This postcard view was taken near to the entrance to Christ Church, Foregate Street in Stafford. It shows the Roll of Honour boards in the form of a wooden, roadside wall-mounted Calvary with the names ...
Royal visit, Duchess of Sutherland's Ambulance Tent Hospital, Calais
Pictured at a Royal visit to the Fourth Duchess of Sutherland’s Ambulance Tent Unit hospital at Calais during World War I are Millicent's daughter, Lady Rosemary Leveson-Gower, Edward, Prince of Wales, ...
Rugeley and Rugeley Camp views
A colour-tinted view of five views of Rugeley and Rugeley Camp on Cannock Chase. Published by William Shaw of Burslem, postmarked 12 June 1919.
Rugeley Camp and Rugeley views
A postcard with two views of Rugeley Camp and three of Rugeley town. Published by T.H. Pemberton, Leigh Street, Burslem and postmarked Rugeley Camp, 11 November 1917.
Rugeley Camp verse
The verse on this card has tried to capture the essence of training at Rugeley Camp. It is written in the style of black humour typical of the First World War.
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
It is difficult to identify the precise location of this photograph. Brocton Camp would have the letter of the Battalion Line above the door together with the hut number which made it easier to identify ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A panoramic view of the sides Battalion Lines 17 to 19 with No.18's Regimental Institute being the large building centre right. An early conifer plantation on the right shows that there were trees on ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A general view of huts at Rugeley Camp, but almost impossible to identify the exact location. The general accommodation huts were kept off the ground by concrete pads. These can still be located in certain ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A heavily re-touched postcard view of Penkridge Bank Road. Interestingly, the caption has been censored by removing the location of the military camp. Of the many hundreds of thousands of postcards that ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
This postcard view was taken quite early on in the development of Rugeley Camp as parts of it are still being built and the roadway is requiring its finishing coating. Initially the materials were brought ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
This is one of the few colour-tinted postcards of the Grat War Camps. This is a view of Rugeley Camp from the Penkridge side of Penkridge Bank Road, just down from Broadhurst Green. Most of the people ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
Rugeley Camp was on relatively flat ground compared to Brocton Camp and it did not have as many easily recognisable features either as it consisted of monotonous rows of huts. The photographer appears ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
Rugeley Camp can be seen on Penkridge Bank in the distance. A postcard view taken on the road from Broadhurst Green to the White House on cannock Chase.
Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
This picture could have been taken at any of the Parade Grounds on Rugeley Camp as the vast majority of the twenty Battalion Lines were laid out identically due to the flat terrain. In the foreground ...
Rugeley camp, Cannock Chase
It is difficult to locate where this photograph was taken, but the layout of the tracks is similar to those between Rifle Ranges "A" and "B". They are only about fifty yards apart down Cherrytree Slade. ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ground since the 1870s. During the First World War two military camps were built on the Chase: Brocton Camp, which was located near to Anson's Bank; ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
This postcard view was posted in Hednesford to an address in West Bradford.
Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ground since the 1870s. During the First World War two military camps ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
This postcard view shows the military railway coming down Penkridge Bank Road from the White House where it splits to go round Rifle Range Corner to the left of the photograph. The Parade Ground ahead ...