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All quiet on the Western Front garden! WWI expert turns his yard into trench system(trunc)
Daily Mail ^
| 11-11-18
| STEPHANIE LINNING
Posted on 11/19/2018 5:47:38 PM PST by dynachrome
Andrew Robertshaw, 58, built the 60ft trench with 30 volunteers in a field behind his former home in Surrey Spent a month shifting 200 tons of earth to build dugout, which features officers' mess and soldiers' quarters Hopes to teach people more about the horrific living conditions endured by British troops during the Great War The historian said that films and TV shows often offer a simplistic and inaccurate view of life on the front line Hosts open days and educational visits to the trench, which was designed based on war time diary descriptions
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; History
KEYWORDS: england; trenchwarfare; ww1
Numerous pictures at the site. Very cool!
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All quiet on the Western Front garden! WWI expert turns his yard into trench system to show what life was really like on the front line
To: dynachrome
Does it come complete with rats, fleas, mud and German artillery barrages?
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posted on
11/19/2018 5:49:23 PM PST
by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: jmacusa
It’s open to the rain, so mud will be there. The rest, well maybe the muzzies can fill in for the krauts.
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posted on
11/19/2018 5:52:26 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
11/19/2018 5:53:39 PM PST
by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: dynachrome
None of those gun thingies though except for the muzzies.
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posted on
11/19/2018 5:54:15 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
11/19/2018 5:54:37 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
What’s going on out there little mister?
lolz
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posted on
11/19/2018 5:56:12 PM PST
by
Califreak
(Take Me Back To Constantinople)
To: Califreak
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posted on
11/19/2018 5:57:34 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator; Califreak
When “Battle Boy”
Got ahold of his
Sisters Barbies,,,
All Hell Broke Loose!
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posted on
11/19/2018 6:24:21 PM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(Despised by the Despicable!)
To: jmacusa
Now fill it half way with water and he will be on track.
To: dfwgator
He was good in UHF, also.
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posted on
11/19/2018 6:39:24 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
11/19/2018 6:48:52 PM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(Despised by the Despicable!)
To: dynachrome
Some guys I used to wargame with also did Civil War and World War I re-enacting.
For World War I they went to some farm in Pennsylvania where the owner built trenches for each side.
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posted on
11/19/2018 6:52:30 PM PST
by
GreenLanternCorps
(Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.arare)
To: Jim Pelosi
I wonder if that’s a real Lee-Enfield .303 he’s got? I could hardy image in today’s Britain he’d be allowed to own one, even a replica.
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posted on
11/19/2018 6:58:31 PM PST
by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: dynachrome
Guys will do anything to get out of mowing the yard.
To: dfwgator
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posted on
11/19/2018 8:17:47 PM PST
by
Califreak
(Take Me Back To Constantinople)
To: jmacusa
This is the website for my local gunshop: it's old fashioned, like the shop itself :-)
J F Neville Guns
To: jmacusa
To: jmacusa
And dysentery. Don’t forget dysentery.
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posted on
11/20/2018 3:41:47 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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