As the war progressed there were concerns about food shortages. So much so that manufacturers produced items such as this butter dish which is housed in the Imperial War Museum. Staffordshire (Stoke-on-Trent) manufactured butter dish decorated with propaganda slogans relating to the vital need for food economy on the wartime home front.
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Staffordshire Record Office holds an appealing document that provides an insight into the diet of the soldiers stationed on Cannock Chase and in the trenches. This is the army cookery instruction exercise book (D3777/1) of Private S Lycett, who was training to become an army field cook in Sheffield in 1917. Although Private Lycett may…
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Life at the Great War camps on Cannock Chase could be hard. Many of the soldiers stationed there complained about the harsh conditions that they lived and trained in – especially in the winter. For example Erskine Williams, a bandsman of the 11th Division stationed in Brocton in 1916, wrote home about the ‘charming pastime’…
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The third installment of WW1 Soldier Biographies written by Mid-Staffordshire Military Appeal Tribunals 1916-1918 volunteer Judith Gilbert, at Staffordshire Records Office, focuses on the ‘Brocklehurst’ brothers;sons of Sir Philip Lancaster and Annie Lee (nee Dewhurst) Brocklehurst of Swythamley Park, Macclesfield. Brocklehurst; Sir; Philip Lee (1887-1975) Sir Philip inherited the estate and became the second Baronet…
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The second installment of WW1 Soldier Biographies written by Mid-Staffordshire Military Appeal Tribunals 1916-1918 volunteer Judith Gilbert, at Staffordshire Records Office, who has taken the time to research the fascinating lives of some of Staffordshire’s First World War soldiers. Benson; George Agar Trevor (1896-1916) Born on 19 October 1896 in County Limerick, Ireland, George was…
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There are many fascinating items held in the collections of Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service. This book was published during World War 1 and shows the fate of the Ten Little Sausages. For more information on Staffordshire Museum Collections please contact [email protected]
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This is the first in a series of Soldier Biographies written by Mid-Staffordshire Military Appeal Tribunals 1916-1918 volunteer Judith Gilbert, at Staffordshire Records Office, who has taken the time to research a rage of sources and write up the fascinating lives of some of Staffordshire’s First World War soldiers. Barks; Horace (1895-1983) From Ipstones, Horace…
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Access this resource Impressions of the Western Front made by Arnold Bennett, British novelist. Bennett lived in France from 1903-1911, and was the first established author to be invited to tour the front for propaganda purposes, spending three weeks in France and Belgium in June 1915 and publishing this account later in the year. He…
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The Staffordshire Weekly Sentinel of January 9th 1915 reported that, “recruiting in Biddulph is far from brisk. A few men are attested each week, but up to the present the results from the War Office system of circularising householders have not been very encouraging.” However, the Sentinel continued by reporting that soldiers on leave had…
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When war broke out in 1914, up to 4,000 nurses were mobilised who had some preparation for war. But other than that, trained female nurses and untrained women flocked to join the surge for the war effort. In Stoke-on-Trent, the War Office took over the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary and turned it into a convalescent…
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