Veterans' Weekend in Trowbridge


Photographer Trevor Porter took a host of images as thousands of people flocked to Trowbridge on the weekend of June 27/28 for a flagship Veterans' event.

Veterans' Weekend in Trowbridge
  • A Dakota plane performed a fly-past at the Trowbridge event
  • Womens' Institute members dress as Land Army Girls to man their catering tent
  • Amanda Pickard at the Trowbridge Museum stall with her goods from the 1940s
  • Cllr Jane Scott, leader of Wiltshire Council, Sir Winston Churchill played by Swindon's Joe Mahony and MP Dr Andrew Murrison
  • Dispatch rider Kevin Foster from Upton Lovell with his 1942 Matchless G3L
  • Wiltshire's Chief Constable Brian Moore and Trowbridge Inspector David Cullop meet up Sgt Paul Costin, of Essex and PC Ian Brophy, of Notts, taking a day off from police duties to be part of the 101 airborne brigade living history group
  • Rifleman Watts and Rifleman Curtis demonstate the wearing of the gas masks 1915-style with Sgt Taylor giving a talk
  • James, 10, from Hilperton learns to shoot the First World War rifle by Rifleman Gary Wise
  • War plane builders Stella Young with Joyse Hunt reunited with a Spitfire
  • Drummers from the Wiltshire Army Cadet Force Corp of Drums
  • A taste of Army rations - Robin and Joanne Peters of Trowbridge
  • Award-winning field gun crew in action from Portsmouth
  • Young members of the award- winning British Legion Band
  • British Legion Band in action
  • Stoking up - James West with the Great War Society's field cooker
  • Military enthusiast Steve Williams with the grave markers of the first and last soldiers to die in the Great War and one dedicated to his great uncle Thomas Williams
  • Melksham's Dave Matthews with his Abbott self-propelled gun
  • Crowds watch the Dakota fly-past
  • Older members of the community from Ravenscroft care home are wheeled to the Veterans' Day by TA members
  • British Legion bikers lead the parade Parade of British Armed Forces and Veterans' assembles in Roundstone Street on Sunday
  • Parade Marshal John O'Reilly on Sunday
  • Sir Winston Churchill in a 1940s jeep
  • Taking the salute at Sunday's parade
  • Trowbridge Air Cadet Corp at the parade

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