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Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a soldier ‘on the other side of the fence’ during WW2?
As one of the UK’s friendliest and most approachable re-enactment groups, we’ll help you gain an understanding of exactly that by discussing the combat history, the uniforms, equipment, vehicles and personalities that made up one of Germany’s elite army units that fought in Italy in 1943/44 and then on the Eastern Front from late 1944 to the end of the war in May 1945.
If you want to know more about this little known aspect of history, come over and have a chat with us, we’ll be more than happy to meet you at one of the events detailed below.
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Public Events 2018
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January
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No planned events
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February
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No planned events
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March
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No planned events
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April
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St Briavels Castle WW2 Event, Lydney, Gloucestershire, GL15 6RG (14th-15th)
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May
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Museum of Cannock Chase, VE Celebration, WS12 1TD (5th) Tutbury Castle 1940s Event, Castle Street, Tutbury, Staffordshire, DE13 9JF (27th-28th)
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June
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Great Central Railway, Rothley Station, Westfield Lane, Rothley, LE7 7LD (1st-3rd)
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July
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Yorkshire Wartime Experience, Hunsworth Lane, East Brierley, Bradford, BD4 6RN (6th-8th)
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August
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Ramsey War Weekend The Camp, Wood Lane, Ramsey, Cambs PE26 2XB (18th-19th) Victory Show, Foxlands Farm, Cosby, Leics, LE9 1SG (31st- Sept 2nd)
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September
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Lincs Wolds 1940s Event, Ludborough Stn, Station Road, Ludborough, NE Lincs, DN36 5SQ (1st-2nd)
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October
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No planned events
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November
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No planned events
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December
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No planned events
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Latest News
Our next event is due soon at Tutbury Castle over the weekend 27/28 May 2018 (see above for the address). More details regarding the event can be found here:
http://tutburycastle.com/events/1940s-weekend/
Here is a great group photo from a previous event held there:
The Group will be attending its next event of the season at Grand Central Railway, Rothley Station, Rothley, Leicestershire this weekend, 1-3 June 2018.
Please come along and see us at this wonderful and well established event, we'll be once again performing guard duties on the platform at Rothley as well as putting on a small display of equipment in the Parcels Office and we will be more than happy to chat with friends old and new.
More details regarding the event can be found here:
www.gcrailway.co.uk/wartime/
15/06/2018 - A very late addition to our Events calendar sees a small contingent of the Group attending the Vintage Years Festival 2018 at the National Brewery Centre in Burton-on-Trent this coming weekend. If you are in the vicinity of the event why not pop in and say hello, we are always happy to chat to friends new as well as old!
More details of the event can be found here:
http://www.nationalbrewerycentre.co.uk/events/the-vintage-years-festival-2018--498
The Group will be attending its next event of the season at the Yorkshire Wartime Experience over the weekend of 6 - 8 July 2018. This great show is now in it's 7th year & we have supported it since 2013 in which time it has become a great favourite amongst the membership:
More details & the address of the event can be found here:
http://nelz60.moonfruit.com/
If you are in attendance at the event drop by our display, as always we look forward to meeting new as well as old friends!
UPDATE
13/08/2018 - The Group will be attending its next event of the season at the Ramsey 1940s weekend, The Camp, Wood Lane, Ramsey, Huntingdon, Cambs PE26 2XB, this weekend (18-19 August 2018). Please come along and see us at this fantastic, well established event: http://www.ramsey1940s.co.uk/
2019 UPDATE
It's been a busy pre-season and all of our events paperwork has now been completed and returned & our calendar for 2019 is now shaping up nicely with just a few confirmations outstanding from some organisers stating that we are 'officially' in at their shows.
So far our calendar looks like this for 2019:
1. Museum of Cannock Chase '40s event – 4 May
2. Tutbury Castle 1940's weekend – 26/27 May
3. GCR 1940's weekend – 31 May, 1/2 June
4. Yorkshire Wartime Experience – 5/6 July
5. Southport 1940's weekend – 27/28 July
6. Baston in the Blitz, '40s weekend – 3/4 August
7. Staffs Regt Museum, Lichfield, '40s event – 17/18 August
8. Victory Show – 6/7 September
A few more shows may be added to this list in due course & I will post details of those shows and more details of the shows listed above nearer to the time.
If you can get along to any of the events listed above, please do so, indeed whilst there please look us up, we are always happy to chat about all things "Hoch- und Deutschmeister".
2020 UPDATE
Unfortunately all events the group has been or was due to attend in 2020 have been cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
More news to follow...
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