For this special weekend event COAM will be hosting re-enactors depicting different wartime periods throughout Britain’s history. You can visit the living history camps and watch a variety of displays by groups from across the centuries.

• Meet Napoleonic soldiers and find out about the life of a Rifleman in Wellington’s army during the Peninsular War. Visit the living history encampment and learn how the soldiers’ families lived. Watch a thrilling display of military skill as the soldiers skirmish (please note that this will include gunfire).

• See costumed re-enactors in the World War One encampment. Watch sword and bayonet exercises and gas drills. Learn about the women’s auxiliary army core and find out what life would have been like.

• Meet members of the Oxford Home Guard Group who will be demonstrating what life was like on the home front during the Second World War.

• Meet the American soldiers of the field Headquarters for the 35th Infantry Division stationed in England prior to D-Day. See a US Army Chaplain in the field with his wartime Jeep & trailer. Re-enactors from the American Infantry Living History Group will demonstrate what life was like for the soldiers with interactive talks and walk-throughs.

On top of all this, Jeep, Jump, Jive will be creating a party atmosphere with popular 1940s music playing from their US Army Air Force Jeep. There will be Lindy Hop social dancing and the opportunity for everyone to get involved with fun classes for all ages.

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