Christmas decorations, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase.
A great deal of effort has gone into decorating this hut for Christmas and New Year celebrations A note on the reverse of this postcard states it is believed that this was the hut where the East Lancashire ...
Church Army Hut, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The Church of England Men's Society was one of the religious groups that provided facilities for the troops to enjoy a Christian environment. The card says on the back that here you were able to purchase ...
Church Army Hut, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The Church of England Men's Society was one of the religious groups that provided facilities for the troops to enjoy a Christian environment. Another postcard shows the opposite end of this hut where ...
Church Army Hut, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The Church of England Men's Society was one of the religious groups that provided facilities for the troops to enjoy a Christian environment. The card says on the back that here you were able to purchase ...
Church Parade, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
Church Parades were an important part of life within the Camps. Every Sunday or on special occasions there would have been services. Most denominations were catered for by the provision of meeting rooms ...
Church Parade, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
This is an excellent view of one of the many Church Parades carried out on the Camps. It would have been a regular occurrence and the Military Band, of which there were many, would have accompanied the ...
Commonwealth War Cemetery, Cannock Chase
This colour-tinted postcard is titled 'The German cemetery', although it actually shows the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green on Cannock Chase. It was known locally as the 'German cemetery' ...
Commonwealth War Cemetery, Cannock Chase
This postcard is titled 'The German cemetery', although it actually shows the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green on Cannock Chase. It was known locally as the 'German cemetery' until the creation ...
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Broadhurst Green, Cannock Chase
The majority of the graves belong to Servicemen from both sides of the conflict who died within the Cannock Chase Camps. The majority of the men were either German Prisoners of War or New Zealanders and ...
Concert party, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
Soldiers pictured with a visiting concert party at Rugeley Camp on Cannock Chase during World War 1.
Construction of Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Some of the many carpenters employed to build the vast Camps of Brocton and Rugeley. They used a grey insulation board to try and keep the huts warm but with there only being one stove per soldiers hut ...
Construction of Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The rear of this photograph states Brocton Camp, early 1915 and you can see by the vast amount of timber required for the building of the huts that a large number of carpenters were employed from far ...
Construction of huts, Army Training Camp, unknown location
This general image of carpenters on top of huts would have been a typical sight on all the temporary Camps erected in this country during World War 1. is not possible to verify the exact location of ...
Construction workers, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The workers came from far and wide to build the Camps and some were later conscripted and trained there when the volunteer numbers started to dry up in 1916. The military railway was now being used to ...
Convalescing soldiers, Ravenhill House, Brereton
Ravenhill House had been briefly unoccupied when, in March 1915, the War Office intimated that Lady Zouche had offered the house as a V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detached) Hospital to be operated by the Red ...
Cook's staff and Prisoners of War, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
There was a Prisoner of War Camp at Brocton Camp from 1917 to 1919. Five of the twenty Battalion Lines were used to house the German prisoners. Each Battalion Line had its own Cookhouse and there was ...
Courtship, Milford, Brocton Camp
The postcard infers that the troops are fraternizing with the locals or maybe their loved ones came to visit and stay in rooms close to the Camp. It is known that many people let rooms out to visiting ...
Field bakery, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
This colourised image shows Men of the Army Service Corps at the Field Bakery at Brocton Camp on Cannock Chase,
During the First World War two military camps were built on the Chase - Brocton Camp, ...