10th Leicestershire Regiment, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
According to their records, the Leicestershire 10th Reserve Battalion were sent to Rugeley Camp in November 1915. the 'past and p[resent' part of the caption is probably explained by the fact that some ...
1st Training Battalion Institute, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
The Standing Camp Plans for the period shows the Regimental Institutes were some of the largest buildings on the Battalion Lines. The officers had their own recreational huts as did the sergeants, so ...
Armistice Day 1918, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A German Prisoner of War is hoisting the Union Jack on the YMCA Hut ,which is probably one of the two along Penkridge Bank Road. A large number of the PoWs were sent out to do work in the area to undertake ...
Army Service Corps Field Bakery, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The Sergeant looks rather strict as he supervises the Army Service Corps Field Bakery Ovens which are on the left of the photograph; the individual chimneys of the ovens are out of shot. All the bread ...
Army Service Corps Field Bakery, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The Army Service Corps were instrumental in keeping the Army supplied with all its needs during the War. Here troops are being trained to bake bread in the "field" either using the Stick Oven (the brick ...
Army Service Corps menu card, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A farewell dinner menu card. The 240th Company of the Royal Army Service Corps was formed in February 1915. They served as 39 Reserve Park and remained at home (on Cannock Chase), although it had originally ...
Army Service Corps, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
The cap badges seem to indicate that these troops beloned to the Army Service Corps which were based in the area of Rugeley Camp currently called the "Tackeroo" Camp site.
Brindley Heath Hospital, Cannock Chase
The Wards, like the huts, were lined with a type of asbestos as a form of insulation. You can still find the brick bases where the stoves for heating would have stood. There were apparently three stoves ...
Brindley Heath Hospital, Cannock Chase
This postcard was sent by a nurse working at the hospital and she has marked with a cross where her Ward was, which was No. 11. Further down the main track you can see the flagpole which was at the entrance ...
Brindley Heath Hospital, Cannock Chase
This is the main entrance to the Brindley Hospital Site with the admission building half way down the main roadway on the left in between the twelve wards blocks. The sign by the entrance mentions the ...
Brindley Heath Hospital, Cannock Chase
These were the Officers Quarters belonging to the Royal Army Medical Corps stationed at Rugeley Hospital on Cannock Chase. Behind these buildings was the Officers' Mess and Ablutions. These huts were ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
"N" and "O" Lines on the eastern slope of Old Acre Valley. The long roof line in the centre of the image at the back is the Ordnance Store. The layout of Brocton's main stores and ancillary buildings ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
These young recruits have occupied Hut 27 on Battalion Line "L" which may have been occupied previously by some of the veterans of the Battle of the Somme or have named it in their honour. They were not ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
This is probably one of the most recognisable postcards of Brocton Camp and shows so many facets of what went on there. In the foreground the troops are digging trenches, an important training experience ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The white lines to the right of the road show the freshly dug earth covering some of the many miles of sewerage pipes laid below both Camps. The large building to the right is the YMCA, one of numerous ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The eastern slopes of Old Acre Valley. This grainy image shows the tall chimneys of the Power Station and the long roof line of the Ordnance Depot on the horizon. Most photographs show electricity poles ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
These are "O" Battalion Lines with the 30,000 gallon Water Tower behind, the Officers' lighter coloured huts to the front, and the open-sided long hut on the right was built as a horse shelter but may ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
8th Training Reserve Battalion at the top of Chase Road in "J" Lines before it descends down into Brocton village. Behind the four standard accommodation huts is the Regimental Institute and the building ...