View from Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A general view from the Camps showing how open the landscape was at the time and how bleak the men found it during the winter months. Being on a raised plateau the biting winds can be inhospitable almost ...
View from Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A general view from the perimeter of Rugeley Camp. This appears be Sherbrook Valley descending away from the Camp. The far side of the valley is now covered in Forestry Commission plantations.
View near Rifle range Corner, Cannock Chase
Painting, oil on board by Robert Perry RBSA (1944-). This area of Cannock Chase was occupied by rifle ranges associated with the two army training camps which occupied Cannock Chase during the First World ...
View 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 ...
View of Brocton Military Camp,
Postcard of Brocton Camp on Cannock Chase. Note the training equipment in the field behind the cottage.
Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ground since the 1870s. during the First ...
View on 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 ...
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 ...
Vincent Holt, Rugeley Camp
Vincent Holt of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry at the piano, in one of the huts at Rugeley Camp on Cannock Chase. He was the son of James Holt(lockmaker)and Fanny Holt(nee Foster) of Willenhall, ...
Volunteer Soldiers Leaving Stone Station,
By Christmas 1914 over four hundred Stone men were in uniform.
W.A.A.C.s, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A portrait photograph of two women in Women's Auxiliary Army Corps uniforms at Brocton Camp. Seated is Gladys Harvey (1894-1977) from Rugeley who was a W.A.A.C. between 1917 and 1919 and worked as a waitress ...
WAACs, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A group of four Women's Auxiliary Army Corps members pictured at Brocton Camp. Seated right is Gladys Harvey of Rugeley who worked as a waitress in the camp canteen between 1917 and 1919.
Walton-on-the-Hill Church, near Stafford
St. Thomas' Church, Walton-on-the-Hill, near Stafford was built in 1853 to designs by Little Haywood architect, Charles Trubshaw.
A postcard published by W.H. Smith & Son, Stafford and postmarked ...
War Memorial and Recreation Grounds, Cheadle
This is the first version of Cheadle's first World War I memorial. It consisted of a captured German field gun mounted on a plinth set in a Memorial Garden. It was inaugurated in 1921.
It has not been ...
War Memorial dedication, Audley
The dedication of the war memorial, Audley, near Newcastle-under-Lyme. The memorial commemorated the 127 men of Audley, Bignall End, Alsagers Bank, Miles Green and Wood Lane who fell in the First World ...
War Memorial tablet, Hot Lane, Cobridge
This memorial tablet is built into the corner of what was previously The Dog and Partridge public house at the southern end of Hot Lane, Cobridge. The inscription reads:
In the memory and honour of the ...
War memorial unveiling, Weston
The unveiling of Weston's War Memorial took place on 24th May, 1923. It was performed by Sir Walter Congreve, V.C.; K.C.B; M.V.O. of Chartley Castle. The Rev. R .F .Edwards, who performed the Service, ...
War Memorial Window, St Lawrence's Church, Gnosall
Window commemorating parishioners from Gnosall and Knightley who served in World War I. The design features a sailor, soldier and airman representing the Armed Forces, accompanied by a nurse, representing ...
War Memorial Window, St Peter's Church, Yoxall
View of a two panel stained glass window in St Peter's Church installed as a memorial to the men of Yoxall who fell in World War I. The window depicts a wounded soldier on the battlefield gazing up at ...