UK First World War Tour – Midlands

Tour Introduction

The Trenches are much closer than you think!

Let Anglia take your students to the Front Line without taking them abroad. This fully-guided tour  delivered in conjunction with our friends at the Great War Hut, Cannock Chase and the Staffordshire Regiment Museum, has been has been designed specifically to enable your students to develop a deeper understanding of the events, experience and legacy of the First World War.

The tour includes:

• A visit to former Great War training camp
• A guided tour of both Commonwealth and German Military cemeteries
• A chance to explore a large, reconstructed, Trench System, and the Staffordshire Regiment Museum
• The opportunity for the group to see period equipment and weaponry.
• A tour of the National Memorial Arboretum

The tour can cover themes including:

• Recruitment and training of the British Army
• How did uniforms and equipment develop during the war?
• Trench construction and trench warfare
• What was life really like for a soldier in the First World War?
• Illness, injuries and treatment on the Western Front
• Issues of health and hygiene in the trenches
• The nature of battlefield wounds
• Medical treatment on the battlefield
• The Chain of Evacuation
• The changing nature of warfare

If you are teaching a module which focuses on the treatment and care of the wounded on the Western Front, we can offer a bespoke programme specifically designed to support this course.

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