WW1 training trenches
BHF #walkforhearts challenge number 10 - On a glorious autumn morning I took round walk from Marlow Common including a look at the 🌺WW1 training trenches in Pullingshill Wood - that's another 10.13km bringing the total to 82.75km out of 50km!! - Not too bad for a veteran with a dicky ticker.
Surely that's got to be worth a fiver!
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The site at Pullingshill Wood contains the best and most complete set of training trenches left in the UK and plays an important part of recording the history of that time. There are about 1400m of trenches dug about 2m deep and 2m wide, by troops from the Grenadier Guards and local people. It is likely that the Grenadier Guards, Welsh Guards, Royal Engineers and Royal Army Medical Corps, who were all billeted at the nearby by Bovingdon Green Camp, trained in the trenches during 1915 and 1916, in preparation for going to the front lines.
Many training camps were set up in 1914 and 1915 to give the new recruits good skills and morale before setting off. Many features such as machine-gun posts, fire-bays and forward trenches have been identified here at Pullingshill Wood.
The trenches are in good condition and their pattern can be followed today despite natural infilling through soil and leaf litter build-up
WW1 training trenches
BHF #walkforhearts challenge number 10 - On a glorious autumn morning I took round walk from Marlow Common including a look at the 🌺WW1 training trenches in Pullingshill Wood - that's another 10.13km bringing the total to 82.75km out of 50km!! - Not too bad for a veteran with a dicky ticker.
Surely that's got to be worth a fiver!
www.justgiving.com/page/peter-jemmett-1727343021401
The site at Pullingshill Wood contains the best and most complete set of training trenches left in the UK and plays an important part of recording the history of that time. There are about 1400m of trenches dug about 2m deep and 2m wide, by troops from the Grenadier Guards and local people. It is likely that the Grenadier Guards, Welsh Guards, Royal Engineers and Royal Army Medical Corps, who were all billeted at the nearby by Bovingdon Green Camp, trained in the trenches during 1915 and 1916, in preparation for going to the front lines.
Many training camps were set up in 1914 and 1915 to give the new recruits good skills and morale before setting off. Many features such as machine-gun posts, fire-bays and forward trenches have been identified here at Pullingshill Wood.
The trenches are in good condition and their pattern can be followed today despite natural infilling through soil and leaf litter build-up