Great War Huts

Part of a groundbreaking First World War visitor centre; Great War Huts is a heritage project preserving a number of original First World War Barrack Huts.

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Another Old Contemptibles grave marker plaque rescued thanks to @TheKnotUnites.

Many thanks to St Peter & St James Hospice, Sussex, who kindly sent it for the cost of the postage. It arrived yesterday - appropriately on August 5th

Chum Cottee died March 1954. Buried in Lambeth.

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It’s Minden Day today, so #HutDog Charlie is #MindenDog Charlie, with his red and yellow Suffolk Roses to commemorate the battle in 1759.

He has just returned from Doggy Duty at the Suffolk Regiment annual reunion at Gibraltar Barracks!

‘Stabilis’

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@davidjmcarson1 @ChiefHutBuilder It certainly did, David!

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It’s a warm Thursday afternoon here at Brook Farm Camp so @ChiefHutBuilder is about to repaint a 9.2” BL Howitzer shell (it’s completely empty), originally fired at Serre on the Somme, to go with our recently restored 1904 Royal Navy 9.2” breech.

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@selhurstpaw1 It’s the awful Joyeux Noel!
Definitely not a @khakidevil production.
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@finn_macdubh Thank you very much, Finn.
The two qualification badges are for Machine Gunner and Gun Layer. As with most Tank crewmen he was trained for all positions except commander.

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The Green, Red and Brown flag of The Tank Corps flies over Brook Farm Camp today to commemorate the death of Kev’s Grandfather, 92958 Pte Alfred James Tabor, who was mortally wounded 108 years ago today, driving a male MkV Tank, No.9049…
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@KarenDe10538610 It certainly is, Karen!

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@KarenDe10538610 …other crew members and, most recently, yesterday when a reply to our post gave details of when he was wounded (attacking the Schwaben Redoubt with 1/1st Cambs in 1916.

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@KarenDe10538610 The family had quite a lot of information, Karen, but Kev has done a lot more since, including a visit to the Tank Museum archive to look through the (sadly incomplete) papers of the 9th Battalion, a lucky break on the Great War Forum, which led to contact with the families of…

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@footballandwar really enjoyed the talk by @richardvanemden which brought home the dangers WW1 pilots and crews faced and the fascinating story of one mother's determination to ensure her son was identified and received the burial he deserved

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@footballandwar @Taff_Gillingham @HorrorBiscuits It was our pleasure, Alex!

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Many thanks to @Taff_Gillingham, @HorrorBiscuits and all the @GreatWarHuts volunteers for putting on another excellent #HuttedHistories talk with wonderful hospitality tea and cakes as always!

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@selhurstpaw1 Our pleasure, Paul.
Most of it, from what Kev and Taff have said, but little snippets do keep cropping up. Earlier today he learned where he was wounded while serving in the Cambridgeshires!

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…The Green, Red and Brown colours of The Tank Corps, now The Royal Tank Regiment, represents the Corps motto:

“From the Mud, through the Blood, to the Green Fields Beyond”.

Remembering Alfred and all of his 9th Tank Battalion comrades today.
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…Alfred had previously served in The Cambridgeshire Regiment before transferring to the Heavy Branch of the Machine Gun Corps, later renamed The Tank Corps.

These are his Heavy Branch identity discs…
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@richardvanemden Thank you very much indeed, Richard. It’s always a pleasure!

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The wonderful @richardvanemden starting his talk about ‘The Search for Francis Mond’ for our July #HuttedHistories, in our original First World War Recreation Hut, here at Brook Farm Camp a few minutes ago.

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