And finally, after two long years, an opportunity to set up camp and go under canvas for a weekend event – the Georgian themed Wimborne History Festival which was organised around a number of locations around the town centre of Wimborne Minster, Dorset. ...
The multi-era event at Spetchley Park has been a favourite occasion for the 32nd Regiment in recent years, with the majority planning to attend in 2019. However the weather gods, clearly upset at the way we overcame the storms at Whitington Castle earlier ...
Dunster Castle, a former motte and bailey castle sitting high above the village of Dunster on the north Somerset / Devon border, is an inspirational venue for a weekend of ‘living history’, drill displays and skirmishes to show off the life of Welli ...
And so to the rural Wiltshire / Dorset border for the annual Chalke Valley History Festival – a multi-era event attended by a number of the 32nd Regiment in the past, but this year relocated to a different part of this very beautiful valley. Whilst the ...
It was Spetchley Park 2014 when, along with many other Napoleonic regiments, the 32nd successfully overcame the rigours of Waterloo accreditation and we commenced the final leg of our journey to meeting and defeating Napoleon in Belgium in June the follow ...
And so to the first Napoleonic Association (NA) event of the 2016 season – Ickworth House near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. Ickworth is a fantastic National Trust property with magnificent Georgian Manor House, great facilities and plenty of open, rollin ...
The big day finally arrived, so with musket licenses sorted and identity barcodes in hand it was off across the English Channel (and for two of us, across the Atlantic!) to meet Napoleon and his army (plus Belgian officiousness) at Waterloo – and to rem ...
So onto Wollaton Park in Nottingham for the ‘Battle of the Nations’, our last NA event before we head for Belgium in June for that major confrontation with Napoleon Bonaparte – the exiled ‘upstart’ whose escape from Elba was reported in February ...
With June not far away, this Ickworth weekend was the penultimate opportunity to train alongside, and renew acquaintances with, the Regiments of 2 Brigade with whom we will be fighting together at Waterloo. Importantly, particularly for the 32nd, it was a ...
Well what a weekend we had! Great to see our ‘orrible Sergeant back in action on the battlefield. Goodness I had missed his reassuring presence and ‘left, left, left and right and left!’ We also had the honour of Ensign Birtwhistle, who is a direct ...
32nd Cornwall Regiment of Foot