Following the success of the South Stafford Airborne Weekend Foreign Field has begun planning for our first multi-period event in the area. With the merger of the Staffordshire Regiment into the Mercia Regiment we are arranging to see the regiment off with a celebration of not only the 300 year history of the regiment but the 500 plus years of military strength that has marched under the Stafford Knot.

Starting with the Duke of Buckingham in the Wars of the Roses and working right up to the work of the South Staffords in World War 2 this promises to be a spectacular day celebrating a very proud history.

The predicted Easter weather delivered in force making the Staffordshire Regiment Museum more like Bastogne than Bocage. But this did not stop the public coming out to experience the Airborne soldier behind enemy lines.

At the South Staffords Airborne weekend Foreign Field, against everything the unseasonal snows could throw, delivered an explosive battle to take a German bunker along with a spectacular weapons display, the Baby Boot Camp and our new display of the skills and experiences of the forward airlanding medics. Groups attended portraying the airborne soldier of all sides from the Paratrooper to the Glider Rider of both the British Forces and the Fallschirmjager of the German Forces in both the Western European and Jungle terrains.

Displaying all of the drop kit and field kit within the living history camps, along with the correctly kitted airborne vehicles the work of the Pathfinders, the men of Caen, D-Day and Operation Market Garden was honoured and celebrated.

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The second Foreign Field LRP Kit Fair was bigger and better than the first with overall visitors for the weekend over 25% up on last year and 10 extra traders. Ed Thurlow of Terror4Fun returned to give a great demonstration of gruesome special effects with materials available from your local supermarket and many more entries for the Fashion Show and Prize Draw.

Following the resounding success of the LRP Kit Fair in February 2008 it has been decided to run this event twice a year in February and October. Initially this will be a repeat event at the popular site in Elsecar with the February 2009 event moving to a location in the south of England.

The Horror Show and Fashion Show all return along with a new introduction to Stage Combat.

Foreign Field has its first event in the south of England in the county town of Trowbridge in Wiltshire. This year for the Veterans Weekend Foreign Field has been commissioned to provide a range of living history displays and arena shows featuring training, operations in the field and vehicles to augment the already popular event..

Following the spectacular weekend at Elsecar in September, Foreign Field has been contacted and booked to provide another for 2008.

Moving slightly back to the 30th & 31st August 2008 Elsecar Wartime Weekend will be returning for its fourth year featuring the return of the liberation of the station, the gunnery display, the Baby Boot Camp and of course the return of Paul Harper and the Ockbrook Big Band in the evening's dance.

With Elsecar having both a beatiful venue but a small available budget. Foreign Field actually invests in this event and works in partnership with the railway. If you think this arramgement might benefit your venue then please contact us.

Glorious weather blessed the first Sedgefield Village Veterans Weekend and for the first time Foreign Field occupied the centre of the village with wartime camps and vehicles.

Ceddesfield Hall, a beautiful old Georgian manor house became the backdrop for the afternoon's battle demonstration as the combined allied forces fought to take back an Axis commandeered chateau.

Inside the hall was a huge and varied display of original wartime household items and people on hand to teach visitors all about them.

Music and entertainments were provided in the local pubs, clubs and care homes as well as the Drill Show, People of the War Show and Gunnery Demonstration in the main village square the morning's demonstrations and attractions were rounded off by an air display of a Hawker Fury, the forerunner of the famous Hurricane.

Then the attention was taken to the assault on the hall. Simulated artillery barrages and rocket attacks opened the way for a fierce firefight up the hill to the rear door of the hall with the Union Flag being flown from the top window to mark the allied victory.

The event was incredibly well attended with visitors getting into the spirit with wartime clothing, the local pubs putting up wartime propaganda posters as well as bomb tape on the windows.

It was the first event of this kind for Sedgefield and we are proud to have opened their events with a bang.

The Easter weekend of 2008 is given over to the Airborne Forces at the Staffordshire Regiment Museum, the home of South Stafford Airlanding. Over the course of this new event Foreign Field will be showcasing the airborne infantry of Britain, America and Germany.

Come along and see the training of both parachute and gliderborne soldiers, have your children trained hard for the elite regiments and see the jump tower in action.

South Stafford Airborne Weekend will be 23rd & 24th March 2008 at the Staffordshire Regmient Museum, Lichfield.