WW1 Badges restored | 5 RIFLES | British Army
Soldiers from D Company 5 RIFLES and The Fovant Badge Society have carried out restoration work on the Fovant Badges in Wiltshire.
The badges were originally carved during the First World War.
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FOVANT BADGES - AERIAL VIEW
ABOUT THE FOVANT BADGES:
When the 1914-1918 war broke out, there was a need to find accommodation for the New Army. In many areas, training and transit camps were established for troops leaving for, and returning from, the battlefields in northern France. One of these areas was the village of Fovant, in Wiltshire and its neighbours Compton Chamberlayne and Sutton Mandeville. The villages and the fields in the shadow of the chalk downs became a military camp, complete with barracks, a hospital, parade areas, shooting practice ranges, a camp cinema and YMCA huts. A military railway was constructed to serve the camp, branching off the main line railway from London to the southwest
Thousands of men from all parts of Britain and overseas lived for a while in the area, passed on to the Western Front and returned from it. Many never returned but gave their lives on the battlefields in France. Others died of their wounds in the hospital or from disease. Rows of silent War Graves in Fovant and other nearby churchyards are testimony to their presence. In remembrance of their colleagues, many of the regiments carved into the hillside replicas of their cap badges. Many of these no longer survive, but by the end of WW1 there were some twenty discernible badges.
Drone Footage The Fovant Badges, a set of regimental badges cut into a chalk hill
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Fovant Badges
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Fovant Badges (Fovant)
The Fovant Badges are a set of regimental badges cut into a chalk hill, Fovant Down, near Fovant, in southwest Wiltshire, England. They are located between Salisbury and Shaftesbury on the A30 road in the Nadder valley; or approximately 1⁄2 mile (800 m) southeast of Fovant.
They were created by soldiers garrisoned nearby, and waiting to go to France, during the First World War; the first in 1916. They are clearly visible from the A30 road which runs through the village. Nine of the original twenty remain, and are scheduled ancient monuments and recognised by the Imperial War Museum as war memorials.
Chalk Badges Aka Chalk Badgers (1963)
Fovant, Wiltshire.
M/S men outside a pub, 'The Pembroke Arms', Leslie Bradford helps Art Tissard strap a tank of weed killer to his back. C/U of two men - one holds a hoe. C/U of Art. Men depart from pub carrying gardening implements. Various shots men walking through village, they walk past graves of First World War soldiers.
L/S men walking over field with chalk hill in distance. C/U feet trudging up hill. Various shots of men digging in side of hill - members of Fovant Badges Association (Leslie is secretary) - restoring chalk badges carved by soldiers stationed here in past. C/U of fork driving into chalk. Various C/Us of gardeners at work, including Art spraying weed killer on the chalk.
Panning shot across hills showing various regimental badges. Various L/Ss of badges, including badge shaped like Australia.
Cuts exist - see separate record.
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The Fovant Badges
The Fovent Regimental Badges Wiltshire
Fovant Badges in Wiltshire
The Fovant Badges are a set of regimental badges cut into a chalk hill, Fovant Down, near Fovant, in southwest Wiltshire, England.
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View from the Fovant badge hill, Wiltshire
Amazing spring view
A short road trip. Stonehenge and Fovant Badges
Took my daughter and niece to see Stonehenge, and stopped off to have a look at the Fovant Badges.
Fovant Badges 2015 Video
A short film produced by undergraduates from Southampton Solent University in 2015 about The Fovant Badges.
Journey A Arriving by road and going to hut
Fovant badges by drone- badges of regiments carved into chalk downs during WW1
The Fovant Badges are a set of regimental badges cut into a chalk hill, Fovant Down, near Fovant, in southwest Wiltshire, England. They are located between Salisbury and Shaftesbury on the A30 road in the Nadder valley; or approximately 1⁄2 mile (800 m) southwest of Fovant. They were created by soldiers garrisoned nearby, and waiting to go to France, during the First World War; the first in 1916.[1] They are clearly visible from the A30 road which runs through the village. Eight of the original twenty remain, and are scheduled ancient monuments and recognised by the Imperial War Museum as war memorials. Further badges have been added more recently.
Incredibly interesting to fly over this impressive site. We could even make out some of the badges that, sadly, have been lost over time.
A New Chalk Fovant Badge - 100 years after the WW1 Original
A poppy that's 150 foot tall and made out of chalk will be etched into Wiltshire's landscape.
It'll join the 8 Fovant military badges to mark 100 years since the first one was carved into the hillside by WW1 soldiers.
The the Heritage Lottery fund's paying £52,700 towards to costs and volunteers will start on July 4th.
Richard Bullard from the Fovant Badge Society has been speaking to Heart's reporter Charlotte Gay about the project and the history of the badges.
'Less We Remember' A different view of Fovant Badges
Long Range Maiden Fight with the Armattan Marmotte
In Memory of the British, South African, New Zealand and Australian troops of the First World War who trained, fought and died here in the tiny village of Fovant.
Link to Badges of Regiments -
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Armattan Marmotte
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FOVANT BADGES 2016
2016 revisit.
ABOUT THE FOVANT BADGES:
When the 1914-1918 war broke out, there was a need to find accommodation for the New Army. In many areas, training and transit camps were established for troops leaving for, and returning from, the battlefields in northern France. One of these areas was the village of Fovant, in Wiltshire and its neighbours Compton Chamberlayne and Sutton Mandeville. The villages and the fields in the shadow of the chalk downs became a military camp, complete with barracks, a hospital, parade areas, shooting practice ranges, a camp cinema and YMCA huts. A military railway was constructed to serve the camp, branching off the main line railway from London to the southwest
Thousands of men from all parts of Britain and overseas lived for a while in the area, passed on to the Western Front and returned from it. Many never returned but gave their lives on the battlefields in France. Others died of their wounds in the hospital or from disease. Rows of silent War Graves in Fovant and other nearby churchyards are testimony to their presence. In remembrance of their colleagues, many of the regiments carved into the hillside replicas of their cap badges. Many of these no longer survive, but by the end of WW1 there were some twenty discernible badges.
Journey H From Railway Station to Hospital
How and Why 2016 Centenary Poppy Built
The story of the History of Fovant Badges and the building of the Centenary Poppy badge.