Salisbury Plain has been the training ground of the British Army for over a century. Works by @wyggroup to provide new Service Family Accommodation found the archaeology of soldiers of both world wars. I worked with @wessexarch to ensure recording of those remains #ArmisticeDay

Remains included trenches dug for training that formed a recreation of the battlefields of the Western Front, with lines of trenches, no-mans-land, barbed wire entanglements, and even shell holes, all designed to give training a reality and meaning. Image: Machine gun positions

As work progressed, a network of tunnels, used to train men in the underground warfare of tunneling and mining were found. Have you read @SebastianFaulks novel Birdsong? This was were some of the real tunnellers trained for war.

Unlike most of the archaeological sites we investigate, we can name many of the men who were here because they wrote their names on the chalk. We have been able to follow their stories: heroes, deserters, family men, casualties and survivors, #Remembrance