Burton Mail : Articles from WW1 [Held at Burton Library] May 1916 MONDAY MAY 1ST 1916: BURTON BOROUGH POLICE COURT CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR FINED (See C/C/M/2/5a/145) At the Burton Borough Police court today, before Alderman T.E. Lowe presiding and Mr Charles Harrison, Albert Collingwood a burton conscientious objector was charged with failing to report himself to…
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Burton Mail : Articles from WW1 [Held at Burton Library] April 1916 THURSDAY APRIL 6TH 1916: A PENNY FROM EVERY HOME To keep soldiers supplied with smokes Fair collectors wanted for every street. There are over 2000 men on the list, cigarettes duty free 12 a penny. All smokes go to Burton and District boys.…
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Burton Mail : Article from WW1 [Held at Burton Library] February 1916 FRIDAY FEBRUARY 4TH 1916: BURTON LICENSEES PROBLEM The supplying of women and children. Councillor A.E. Birch, Secretary of the Burton Licensed Retailers Association recently addressed a communication to the Burton County Licensing Justices with reference to the undertaking entered into by the trade,…
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Staff and volunteers working with the Staffordshire Archives are tracing the progression of the war through the reports found in the Burton News. Burton Mail : Articles from WW1 [Held at Burton Library] January 1916 MONDAY JANUARY 10TH 1916: SHORTAGE OF FARM LABOUR Lord St. Andries appeal to women. Speaking at [Tangton] on Saturday in reference…
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The first WI meeting in the UK was held in Llanfairpwll on Anglesey, Wales, on 16 September 1915. Since then, the organisation has grown to become the largest women’s voluntary organisations in the UK with over 212,000 members in 6,600 WIs. The WI was first established to educate rural women, and to encourage countrywomen to…
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At the beginning of the Great War, Cannock Chase was a wide expanse of exposed, open heath land, bleak and practically treeless. The area had seen military activity in the 19th century, when volunteer units had used it for training. These factors – along with its central position and its proximity to main railway lines…
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We’re only six months into the Staffordshire Appeals Project, and thanks to the fantastic work of our volunteers, giving up over 1000 hours of their time, the Records office has been able to do much more with the records than originally intended and uncovered some unusual finds in the process. Just some of the…
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At the outbreak of war in August 1914, Tom Parsons was living with his parents in Providence Terrace, Walsall Road, Landywood, Staffordshire. He signed up with the Royal Army Medical Corps at Whittington Barracks in Lichfield and served with them for the duration of the war. Tom survived the Great War and lived until 1965.…
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Richard Pursehouse and Lee Dent from Cannock have been carrying out further research work about the Messines model uncovered on Cannock Chase last year. Richard, a book distributor, and Lee, a truck driver, have traced the stories of two local soldiers – from Stafford and Cannock – involved in the conflict who actually served with the New Zealand and…
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The National Archives hold records relating to Tolkien’s war service. After four months in the trenches – a period that strongly influenced the world that he later created in books such as The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of Rings (1954-55) – Tolkien fell victim to the typhus-like condition known as ‘trench fever’ and returned to…
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