Messines Model, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Looking north across the scaled terrain model of the Battle of Messines at Brocton Camp. The New Zealand Rifle Brigade took part in the successful campaign to take the Messines Ridge, a stronghold on ...
Military Band, Rugeley
A regimental band pictured at a concert in Rugeley during World War 1. The musicians were troops based at Rugeley Camp on Cannock Chase.
Military Band, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
The military band of the 16th (Reserve) battalion of the Durham Light Infantry pictured outside a building at Rugeley camp. The 16th were based at Rugeley Camp from November 1915.
Military Cemetery, Broadhurst Green, Cannock Chase
Photograph possibly taken on the first ANZAC Day observance at the Military Cemetery at Broadhurst Green.
Written upon the crosses it states New Zealand Rifle Brigade and also New Zealand Expeditionary ...
Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Brindley Heath, Cannock Chase
This postcard is post-World War 1 as the Hospital has changed its name to Ministry of Pensions Hospital. It was reportedly capable of housing 1000 patients and had 12 Wards in the main building. As you ...
Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Brindley Heath, Cannock Chase
The Ministry of Pensions was concerned specifically with the accommodation of military pensioners of the two World Wars and from pre-1914 conflicts in hospitals and other institutions in the United Kingdom ...
Musketry Squad, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
Lance Corporal Oakland looks proud standing next to the young soldiers he has instructed in the art of musketry. The majority of his students look too young for the front-line and will not be able to ...
N.Z.R.B. poem, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A poem taken from a notebook written by a New Zealand Rifle Brigade soldier stationed at Brocton Camp from 1917-19. He is writing about the interaction with women from the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. ...
Near Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
This view may show the path leading to the Sherbrook Stepping Stones from the Punch Bowl at the northern edge of Cannock Chase. At the top of the hill there are clumps of Scots pines that were planted ...
Near Chase Road, Cannock Chase
A photograph taken in the early 1980s by Jake Whitehouse showing the site of the Water Tower, Power House and 'O' Lines of Brocton Camp. There is evidence of trench digging in the foreground.
Near Rugeley camp, Cannock Chase
Rugeley Camp was also known as Penkridge Bank Camp but it was rarely referedto as Hednesford Camp so the view must be from the Hednesford end of the Chase.
Colour-tinted postcards of the Great War ...
New Zealand Rifle Brigade badges and buttons
This set of New Zealand Rifle Brigade cap badges, uniform badges and buttons are from the uniform belonging to Sgt. Reginald John Claude Jellie (1894-1995) who was a stationed at Brocton Camp on Cannock ...
New Zealand Rifle Brigade soldier, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A studio portrait of an unidentified NZRB soldier stationed at Brocton Camp, dated 11 September 1918 and sent to 'Greta'.
Photographer: Joyce Studios, near the George, Guildford, Sutton-Veny and Worcester....
New Zealand Rifle Brigade soldiers
Three ANZAC (New Zealand) soldiers belonging to the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (NZRB) posing for a portrait.
After fighting at the Somme and at the Messines Ridge, the NZRB were considered a valuable ...
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, 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 ...
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, ...
NZRB in the snow, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
It must have been a long hard winter as another postcard shows the New Zealanders playing in the snow in late 1917, but it obviously has not dampened their spirits.