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New Zealand Rifle Brigade soldiers at Brocton Military Camp,

Group of ANZAC (New Zealand) soldiers belonging to the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (NZRB) in the snow at Brocton Camp. After fighting at the Somme and at the Messines Ridge, the NZRB were considered ...

New Zealand Rifle Brigade, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase

Three special trains moved the 5th Reserve Depot from Salisbury Plains to Brocton on 27 September 1917. From then on fresh troops arriving from New Zealand to the New Zealand Rifle Brigade were sent directly ...

New Zealand Rifle Brigade, Reserve Depot, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase

Three special trains moved the 5th Reserve Battalion from Salisbury Plains to Brocton on 27 September 1917. They initially used "H" Lines which is where this photograph was taken but as more of them arrived ...

No.1 Wing Volunteer Band, RAF Hednesford

It is thought that the Bandmaster was Flight Sergeant J. Broadgate.

North Staffords in camp at Wellington, South Africa, during the Boer War

After the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, the 4th (Militia) Battalion, North Staffords, was ‘embodied’ in January 1900 and arrived in South Africa in March, serving there until May 1902. For much of ...

North Staffordshire Regiment

The 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment pictured in 1939.

North Staffordshire Regiment soldiers, Belgium

Pte 2889 Gordon Dyke and his brother Pte 2888 Lionel Dyke pictured with one of their colleagues, Eric Carhart, of the 1/5th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment. On the back of this photograph is ...

North Staffordshire Regiment troops outside R. Peach & Co's Crown Maltings, Burton-on-Trent

6th North Staffs troops outside R. Peach & Co's Crown Maltings, Anglesey Road, Burton-on-Trent. Local troops standing with horses, which were being used for transporting small arms ammunition in boxes....

North-easterly view on Cannock Chase, near Rifle Range Corner

Drawing, charcoal and ink on paper by Robert Perry RBSA (1944-). Sketch made at Rifle Range site on Cannock Chase, near First World War army training camps on Cannock Chase. Commissioned for 'The ...

Notice from the Enoch Wood scrapbook - "Our cause is gained!"

A big decision In 1812, the people of the Potteries were struggling for their livelihoods. One government decision could make all the difference, but would it all come too late? Ruin Years of ...

Notts & Derby Regiment soldier, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase

A bandsman of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment pictured outside a hut at Brocton Camp. This young man is proud to send home his portrait in full bandsman uniform and is informing his mother, ...

Novelty postcard, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase

A postcard featuring a cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather. the caption reads "Well, if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it." This card was sent by 'uncle John' to his nephew, he appeared to be making ...

Novelty postcard, Rugeley Camp

A number of generic novelty cards were created so that the supplier or writer of the card could insert the location of the Camp they were stationed at. The caption reads 'Immediate. Pictures by wireless ...

Novelty postcard, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase

A novelty postcard of comforts for the troops with the following rhyme: “Cakes and smokes that travelled miles / reached sunny France brought sunny smiles”. A number of generic novelty postcards were ...

Nurse Millicent Sutherland

Photograph of Millicent signed Millicent Hawes, Millicent Sutherland Ambulance 1914- 1918, the Great War. Millicent Fanny St. Clair Erskine was born in 1867 in Fife. In 1884 she married Cromartie ...

Nurse Watkins at Baker's Cottage, Wolverhampton Road, Pattingham.

Gwen Law and Florrie Bramall having a chat with Nurse Watkins, the village midwife.

Nurses and convalescing soldiers, Ravenhill House, Brereton

A group of convalescing military personnel photographed with nurses and civilians during World War I against the south-facing window of Ravenhill House adjacent to the garden. The house was used as a ...

Nurses Home, Military Hospital, Newcastle Under Lyme

A postcard view of the Military Hospital Nurses' Home on Newcastle Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme. This building, built in 1902, has since been demolished. During the First World War Stoke-upon-Trent Union ...