When the World's Armies Came to Salisbury Plain
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Training in the Trenches
i've been up to salisbury plain for a project for a history tv. A few miles north east of here. Compared to the western front, this place was like a paradisebut what was their training like? And point me to the areas in which they would have done their training. What form did that training take? The training at the beginning, anyhow, was very basic. They had to learn from the very beginning how to even march together and handle rifles and trench warfare,. All those things were carried out on the parade grounds and the training grounds, which were the bottom of the downs. It was quite substantial. Six weeks and more they were doing basic training to go and fight
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