Lt. Col. R.A. Davies, South Staffordshire Home Guard on Cannock Chase
Lt. Col. R.A. Davies, Commanding Officer of the 29th Battalion (West Bromwich) South Staffordshire Regiment Home Guard. Richard Arthur Davies was born in Liverpool in 1886. He studied at Liverpool University ...
Lt. Colonel Johnson’s Belt Buckle
Lt. Colonel Johnson served in the North Staffordshire Regiment for over seventeen years, and had seen action in South Africa before serving in World War One.
In September 1914 he was selected to train ...
Lt. Maurice Procter, Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A portrait of Maurice Procter, taken around 1947 as a Lieutenant in the North Staffordshire Regiment. He was conscripted in December 1944 into the regular Army after being a Sergeant in the Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
Lt. Richard Byrd Levett, Milford Hall
Richard William Byrd Levett (1897-1917) was heir to Milford Hall and was killed in action on 10 March 1917 at Bapaume, on the Somme, while serving in the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the First World ...
Luftwaffe View of RAF Stafford
The Luftwaffe was certainly aware of RAF Stafford during 1940 as this reconnaissance photograph shows. The Station's sites are clearly marked out north of Stafford. Fortunately RAF Stafford was able ...
Lych Gate and War Memorial, Eccleshall,
Lychgate and Church, Marchington Woodlands
A view from the side of the War Memorial Lychgate to St. John's Church. St. John's Church was built by Thomas Webb of Smallwood Manor in 1858-9, and designed by A.D. Gough of London in a late 13th century ...
M and N line huts along Old Acre Valley, Brocton Military Camp
This view of Brocton camp shows two types of accommodation hut, those for officers and those for enlisted men. The officers each had their own stove and the photograph shows the hut in the foreground ...
Mail sorting office, Yarnfield
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
Main Road, Milford
The cottage on the right was the home of Eliza Jane (Jinney) Alderson during World War 1. Her parents had moved into the cottage in1866 and Jinney lived there for the rest of her life. She died in 1960. ...
Major & Mrs J.L. Meakin, The Laurels, Stone
Portraits of Constance Evelyn Meakin and her husband Major James Lionel Meakin.
Major James Lionel Meakin (1874-1940) was educated at Uppingham School and was a Major in the 5th North Staffordshire ...
Major General Sir George Anson
Major General Sir George Anson (1769-1849) was born at Shugborough, the second son of George Anson (formerly Adams) of Shugborough and brother to Thomas, 1st Viscount Anson. He fought in the Peninsular ...
Marching Band, Battle of Britain Week, Stafford,
R.A.F. band forming part of the Battle of Britain Week parade, Victoria Road, Stafford.
The Battle of Britain was a series of air raids by the German Air Force between June 1940 and April 1941. These ...
Mark 1 Spitfire outside Brampton Museum, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This Mark 1 Spitfire from R.A.F. Bicester was on display outside the Brampton Museum (then the Borough Museum and Art Gallery) in Newcastle-under-Lyme to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Royal Air ...
Mark XVI Spitfire at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Photograph of the Spitfire, which has been on permanent display at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery since 1986.
Designed by local engineer Reginald Mitchell in the 1930s, the Spitfire was instrumental ...
Market Place on Coronation Day, Uttoxeter
Crowds stand near the kiosk in Market Place and watch as soldiers in dress uniform prepare to fire a military salute on George V's Coronation Day. The scene was captured from a first floor room near to ...
Market Place, Cannock
The Mraket Place, showing the war memorial and shops: Gellions, Foster Brothers menswear, Pearks and Parkes.
The war memorial was dedicated on May 22nd 1923 and formally handed over the the Town ...