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Post by bgill on Mar 15, 2010 21:08:19 GMT
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Post by aghart on Jul 24, 2011 22:20:15 GMT
I visited the National Arboretum near Burton on Trent today 24/07/2011. Today was by coincidence the day the QDG unveiled their regimental monument, A huge piece of welsh slate showing the QDG badge and the badges of the two regiments that formed QDG. The slate is as smooth as silk, my description does not do it justice, it is a very impressive recognition of 1st The Queens Dragoon Guards. To anyone who has never been to the arboretum which before today included me, a piece of advice, "GO" and go soon, it is amazing, a truly great experience.
Top tip, make a weekend of it, go to Burton on trent on Saturday, sample the beer from the brewing Capital of England (Worthington White Shield on draught rather than in a bottle, 5.6%) stay in a hotel and then go the the arboretum on Sunday.
I was suprised by the size of the RTR plot, huge, the regimental flag is flying permamently it was all very moving. The far east POW plot was also very moving, a piece of the Burma railway is in place there, the actual rails were manufactured in Middlesborough in 1904 and used to build the railway 39 years later. I watched while veterans of the Cheshire Regiment unveiled a stone bench in memory of the fallen of the Cheshire's. The "shot at dawn" area where execution posts bearing the names of WW1 soldiers shot for "cowardice" is a rather thought provoking area. These men have now all received pardons as now we know that the acts of cowardice was in fact post traumatic stress syndrome.
You cannot do all of this place in one day, there is just too much to see, I will be going again deffo.
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