Moonraker Posted 24 April , 2017 Share Posted 24 April , 2017 Googling "WWI practice tunnels found under Salisbury Plain" will lead to a number of articles in today's media including: BBC Regional News Meridian News It's not clear in the latter how much, if any, of the contemporary film footage was made on the Plain. Very impressive. I know there were many sets of practice trenches on and near to the Plain, but hadn't realised there were tunnels. Moonraker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 24 April , 2017 Share Posted 24 April , 2017 Guardian piece here https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/24/first-world-war-training-tunnels-and-trenches-discovered-in-wiltshire It would appear that unfortunately there is no intention to preserve them Cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteStarLine Posted 24 April , 2017 Share Posted 24 April , 2017 My wife just heard this on the news in Canberra, Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 25 April , 2017 Author Share Posted 25 April , 2017 There's quite a bit of interest in Australia about Salisbury Plain during the Great War, with people visiting the area to see where (great) grandad served - and around now to attend one of the ANZAC Day ceremonies held at various cemeteries.. From mid-1916 the local camps accommodated mainly ANZAC troops, and it's probable they were the major patrons of the practice trenches. Moonraker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 10 June , 2017 Author Share Posted 10 June , 2017 Also a good Daily Mail article (not sure about the "secretly trained" reference) As an another aside, I haven't come across many references in soldiers' (auto-)biographies to spending time in practice trenches - which I would have thought was a highlight of their training. Moonraker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelS Posted 10 June , 2017 Share Posted 10 June , 2017 Corporal Weathers is buried in the Commonwealth cemetery at Vendhuile in northern France. His headstone is identical to hundreds scattered around Larkhill. Being pedantic, no it isn't. It is unique to those of other awardees of the VC in that they carry a carved representation of the award, but then most CWGC headstones can be said to be truly unique in that each carries a different inscription... NigelS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badger123456 Posted 11 June , 2017 Share Posted 11 June , 2017 More here from the Archaeologists who excavated the tunnels http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2017/05/10/tunnels-larkhill http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2017/04/25/ww1-australian-hero http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2017/04/25/unique-first-world-war-tunnels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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