The Diggers Living History Group: Events for 2011

In June, the excellent Wartime Clumber event is at Clumber Park (Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 3AZ) Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 June 2011. As it is a home front event we will be depicting the 2/12th Battalion when they were stationed in the UK before being shipped out to the Middle East.

Tankfest 2011 is the next event at the end of June. The unit portrayal will be the 2/23 Battalion, they took part in the Benghazi Handicap and also Tobruk where they manned the perimeter defences of the Red Line.

You will find us in the main display area as indicated.

The Crich Tramway Museum in July will see Colin and possibly some of the others in the group in showing our Great War Australian uniforms including the Light Horse. Then in August (13/14th) at the same location's WWII event we will be representing the 2nd AIF - come and talk to a Digger in the pub just bacl from Tobruk!

The Victory Show at Cosby held in the first week of September. We will be located in an area in the wood where we can depict the AIF/Militia forces in the jungle campaign against the Japanese Imperial Forces. We may make this a generic display as regards to uniform, equipment and weapons covering 1942-1945 from the Kokoda Track, Shaggy Ridge to Balikpapan etc.

About Us

We are a group portraying aspects of the Australian Army during World War I and II. We have portrayed Australian Soldiers (Diggers) in the Western Desert (1940-1943), Australian Defence Volunteers and during the Kokoda campaign. In 2012 we are also portraying 24th Battalion AIF.

The 24th Battalion was formed in May 1915 at Broadmeadows Camp in Victoria. It sailed shortly afterwards from Melbourne for further training in Egypt then went on to Gallipoli. From there it went via Egypt to France, taking part in its first major offensive around Pozières and Mouquet Farm in July and August 1916. In May 1917 the battalion participated in the second battle of Bullecourt. It was involved for only a single day, the 3rd May, but suffered almost 80 per cent casualties. It helped turn back the April 1918 German offensive and participated in the battles of Hamel amd Amiens. At Mont St Quentin the 24th played a major role by recapturing the main German strong point atop the summit on 1 September. The battalion’s last battles were at Beaurevoir on 3 October and Montbrehain on 5 October. It left the front on the 6th October 1918 and was disbanded in 1919. Later it reformed as part of the CMF and in 1939 the 24th Battalion was merged with the 39th Battalion, which saw service on the Kokoda track.

Sources: 24th Battalion http://www.awm.gov.au and 24th Battalion (Australia) Wikipedia

Formed in 2009. We are members of AFRA.

Regards John, Barry, Colin, Rod, Rob, James, Andy and friends.

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Kokoda23 November 2011 at 14:45
I'm wishing I lived closer so I could get back into it... I'd be so much fitter! Thanks for the comment! :) Kokoda Maps

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