The Staffordshire Great War project officer has received a request for information about William Whitfield. I’m living in Belgium and occupied as an hobby, with the heritage of the Great War and remembering fallen soldiers into the Great War. Your mailaccount was sent me with the mention you could probably help me further on with…
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The Board of Agriculture organised the Land Army during the Great War, starting activities in 1915. Towards the end of 1917 there were over 250,001 – 260,000 women working as farm labourers, with 23,000 in the Land Army itself, doing chores such as milking cows and picking fruit. 3 million men away to fight in…
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The Anzac Day service held on Cannock Chase was covered by the Staffordshire Newsletter.
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He died in hospital 150 miles from home after initially surviving one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War. Sapper George Gough had taken a bullet in his shoulder which had paralysed him from the waist down in the build-up to the Battle of Loos. Despite doctors’ best efforts, he died four months…
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Following the end of the Great War, reports, celebrations, and local War Memorials were planned, instigated, dedicated, and unveiled in North Staffordshire and district, and were reported in the Staffordshire Weekly Sentinel of the period. Ken Ray and Ken Badderley have searched through all the Staffordshire Weekly Sentinel’s from late November 1918 to Spring 1923…
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Ernest Albert Egerton VC Born 10th Nov. 1897 Died 14th Feb. 1966 World War I Victoria Cross Recipient, born in Longton, Staffordshire, he was educated in local grade schools and began working in a colliery at the age of 16 as a haulage hand. He enlisted in the 3rd North Staffordshire Regiment on his 18th…
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Amongst the collections of the Imperial War Museum sits a butter dish created by Staffordshire women on the Home Front.
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Amongst the infantry taking part in the bloody battle of Passchendaele in the First World War were the South Staffs and the North Staffs Regiments. November 8th marks the anniversary of the end of the battle. Paul Morris tells the story… November 8th 2017 marks the 90th anniversary of the conclusion to the battle of…
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This memorial bench is located on the edge of the village green at Chapel Chorlton, Newcastle-Under-Lyme.
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Project funded from Voices of War and Peace The Clay Foundation and Manchester Metropolitan University This project seeks to engage contemporary refugee and asylum seekers in Staffordshire as co-researchers and creative collaborators, to examine the similarities, and the differences, between the experiences of Belgian refugees in World War 1 and those of refugees and asylum…
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