A-Z Challenge for 2018-suggestion

dodursley

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Armistice/Military A-Z challenge for 2018 a list of suggestions though I could not think of K,L,X. Added some web links, they are not meant to be sole source of locations but just a starter, I was doing a local challenge (not A-Z) for our local VMCC and thought it might be a possible national A-Z. Non GB members will have to make up local equivalents.
The table does not display very well so here is a pdf
Armistice / Military A_Z
A Airforce List of Royal Air Force stations - Wikipedia
B Bunker (ROC,’secret’) ‘secret’=Cold War Posts Map
C Civil war battlefield Battle or skirmish site
Category:Battles of the English Civil Wars - Wikipedia
UK Battlefields Resource Centre - The Civil Wars
D dockyard Current or wartime naval dockyard/ shipbuilder sites
Royal Navy Dockyards and Research, 1914-18
E Exercise area (Range) eg Salisbury Plain, Lulworth
The defence training estate - GOV.UK
F Fort (Castle) Castles Forts Battles Home | CastlesFortsBattles.co.uk
List of castles in England - Wikipedia
( links to Scotland & Wales)
G Garrision Current army site List of British Army installations - Wikipedia
H Hospital military current or wartime site
Military hospital - Wikipedia
Military hospitals in the British Isles 1914-1918 – The Long, Long Trail + others in local histories
I Iron (Bronze) Age hill fort Hillforts in Britain - Wikipedia
J Jet military aircraft Gate guardian/ Vintage eg Meteor, Hunter, Vampire , Phantom ?
K Killing Fields battles sites not in C, R, S
L Listening post Radar sites, ground stations for comms.
M Military Memorial Eg Kymin, Commando memorial
N Naval Current/former navy shore site
List of Royal Navy shore establishments - Wikipedia
O Ordinance factory site ROF or Filling factory WW1 to current
List of Royal Ordnance Factories - Wikipedia
Filling Factories in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
P Pillbox or POW camp site
Pillbox http://www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/uk-defence-locations/
POW camp List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
Q Quartermaster, Military storage depot See A G N
R War of Roses or medieval battlefield
UK Battlefields Resource Centre - Wars of the Roses
UK Battlefields Resource Centre - Medieval
S Scottish wars battlefield (include those in England)
Roman to Bonnie Prince Charlie UK Battlefields Resource Centre - Medieval
UK Battlefields Resource Centre - Stuart Uprisings
T tank or Thankful village Gate guardian?
U underground Bunker or factory Home - Subterranea Britannica
V VC grave/memorial/plaque Victoria Cross
W War memorial Village/ town /city memorial
X X planes experimental aircraft in museums?
Y Yankee US military site/ item (vehicle –jeep, truck?) Unknown territory: America’s secret archipelago of UK bases
United States Air Force in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
Z ground zero (bombed building/area/plaque) Eg Coventry cathedral, ruined church or ?
 

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Mikey

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So in this day and age you're suggesting rocking up at military establishments and taking photos .:whistle::whistle::whistle:

They've got men with guns.........:respect13:
 

dodursley

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and women,
you can take a picture of the nameplate or sign to it, never seem to be problems at Fairford there are always people with cameras there.
See what Google street shows there, its already in the public domain, and only show the same with your bike.
Suggest something else, a themed or random A-Z
 

dodursley

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A selection of pictures from our section challenge, had to google C as I had lost the originals!
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dodursley

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K GB has plenty of historic Killing fields- Towton as bad as any for a 1 day battle (28000 dead) Battle of Towton - Wikipedia
also other Roses, Civil war battles in addition to one under C & R
X planes Fairford sometimes has U2 & Blackbird so probably the other USAF bases also,
Cosford museum has some historic X planes from UK, Germany and others , possibly other aircraft museums?

L- listening post Radar sites, ground stations for comms.
 
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dodursley

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a different medal awarded for being in Korea-VC
for V the Church at Cranham near Stroud Gloucestershire where Colonel James Power,Carne, 1st Bn, Gloucestershire Regiment was buried in 1986. He was awarded, in 1953, the VC for his (and his men) actions at the battle of Imjin River (1951) and during their years as POWs in North Korea
VC cranham.JPG

(spelt Imjin incorrectly above)
and for G-Garrision an army site the museum of Gloucestershire soldiers The Glosters
Garrison museum glos.JPG

and
an international garrison (ARRC) in Gloucester now named after the famous battle The Imjin Barracks
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dodursley

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Some more from yesterdays trundle around Gloucester
D-dockyard Nielsen restore sailing ships , best we can do for building ships
Dockyard glos docks.JPG

J Jet Age Museum Meteors, club run there last Sunday, entry free Jet age museum > Home
also A Staverton airfield
Jet staverton.JPG

O & Q Quedgley was Filling Factory 5 (making shells) during WW1 1915 to 1919 dismantled in 1924 ish, site used by RAF from late 1930s to ~1990 as storage facility and used by Gloster Aircraft? Mess building is almost the sole survivor from either, now housing and industrial estates.
O Q quedgley.JPG

P pillbox at Stonehouse, had an AA gun on the roof. Part of the Green defence line, around Bristol, along the Stroudwater canal and the AA battery was part of the defences for the Sperry gyroscope shadow factory at Bond Mill on the other side of the canal bridge.
Pillbox stonehouse.JPG
 

dodursley

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At last a reasonable day after cold and snow, until it rained!
F Berveston Castle
F beverstone.JPG

I/K Hinton Hill
I K Hinton hill.JPG

M Leighterton
M leighterton.JPG

T Little Sodbury
T little sodbury.JPG
 
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