ANZAC Day

[Keith Webb]

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In the village where I was brought up - Fovant in Wiltshire - there are a number of ANZAC graves from WW1, all the result of influenza deaths.

I can remember ANZACs coming over for memorial services. The troops were camped out around the village and used the top of the downs as a rifle range. We used to find spent bullets quite regularly. A local farm still had some of the original wooden huts for storage, and I found a couple of old army badges in one.

Fovant is famous for its 'badges', carved in the hillside chalk by the various regiments stationed there. There is a viewpoint on the A30 half way between Salisbury and Shaftesbury. There used to be a large map of Australia also, near Compton Chamberlyne, but that became overgrown years ago, as they need to be weeded at intervals.

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