Rufford Park Great War Centenary Weekend

Digger, Blue and Snowy represented the Diggers Living History Group at the Rufford Abbey Country Park Great War Centenary Weekend 28-29th June 2014. Digger and Snowy wore 4th Battalion AIF shoulder patches and Blue wore Australian Light Horse webbing.

It was an excellent event and well organised by Howard Giles of Eventplan. We met old and new fiends and were very happy to participate. Blue read the lesson in the Sunday morning church parade. Above are a couple of the pictures from the weekend, with more to follow. Karen did a great job with the photography.

Sheffield Fire and Emergency Museum 40's weekend June 21/22

Here are a few photos from the Sheffield Fire and Emergency Museum 40's weekend June 21/22

Churnett Valley - 26/27 April 2014

First event for the year for the group saw Ned and Blue riding the rails at Churnett Valley

Remembrance Day London 11/11/2013

Members of the Diggers LHG went to London on Remembrance Day 11/11/2013. These photos were taken by our good mate Mo Stokes and also Ned. The first picture shows the lads with Corporal Daniel Keighran VC after the ceremony. Lest We Forget.

Pickering 12 October 2013

The Diggers Living History Group attended Pickering 2013 and enjoyed a day's leave in this picturesque Engish village.

The Victory Show 2013

Blue on guard duty and looking very smart in steel helmet, 37 pattern webbing, KD with Bombay Bloomers with SMLE.

Blue multitasking - shaving and smoking at the same time.

Digger keeping to regulations

The Diggers were at The Victory Show again - 6-9th September 2013. This year as the 2/30th Battalion in the early war period in Malaya and Singapore. The 2/30th were the last battalion to be raised for the AIF and were short lived being posted to Malaya where they fought the Japanese, withdrawing to Singapore and spending the rest of the war in captivity in Changi. The 2/30th website is located here: http://www.230battalion.org.au/index.htm

Yorkshire Wartime Experience July 7/8 2013

A First World War event for the group at this show. Taking turns between manning a section of trench (not quite deep enough for our liking!) and showing troops at rest in a field of bell tents the Diggers stood alongside The Manchester Regiment and the Gordon Highlanders. Plus on the Sunday the Lancashire Hussars.

The battle - over a realistic length of ground, but not churned up by years of shelling - was a spectacle, troops arrived by an original Albion truck on Saturday and by an original Thorneycroft on Sunday. D Troop, the Lancs Hussars provided a scouting party. Blue, Joey, Digger and Vic provided a contrast to the British troops (the Manchesters Serjeant was wary of coming past as he was introduced to 'two-up' in an effort to relieve him of his meagre wage). In contrast to last year when the show was almost completely washed away by heavy rain we basked in sunshine which gave the trench a distinct Gallipoli feel.

The weekend also gave Blue a chance to run out his Light Horse kit.

 

Photos here courtesy of Sue Whittenbury (D Troop, Lancashire Hussars) with slight modification by the editor.