Nice to see a couple of Belgians in there, especially the big lad.
I take it the Tank is a wooden, prefabricated affair that's put together on site?
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Good to see the Belgians again, having met them at Zonnebeke earlier this year, and didn't know they were coming over for Kelmarsh! The wooden tank was actually built for 'Flyboys', you see it for about a split second as a German Beutepanzer with no sponsons in the terrible scene where a pilot lands in no mans land on a convenient flat ridge to rescue his friend, trapped under his plane, by chopping his hand off with a spade.
The gentleman who built the trench is friends with the East of England Military Museum who had the vehicle sat outside for the past few years, so he had a lot of work to do on it, including making a sponson for one side of it - the scenario was that it was a captured German trench, and the tank had run out of fuel and was then knocked out by German artillery. You wouldn't have known it was made out of wood at all, i've been an inch away from its sides and it still looks like metal! The burnt out interior seen from the other side (unfortunately no photo of that) looks fantastic, with the shell holders, engine etc all there
It was a multi-period living history event, held every year at Kelmarsh Hall in Northamptonshire, England. All sorts there, from Romans, Normans, Vikings, English Civil War, Napoleonics, First World War and Second World War. It's run by English Heritage and is absolutely fantastic, had a very large number of WW1 British Tommy's there, as well as French, Russian, Belgian and German troops
What kind of event is that?
