20x01 The Forgotten Gunners of WWI
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Tony Robinson | As: Self - Presenter |
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Carenza Lewis | As: Herself |
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Raksha Dave | As: Self - Field Archeologist |
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Phil Harding | As: Self - Field Archaeologist |
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John Gater | As: Self - Geophysicist |
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Golfers at a popular East Midlands golf club now know that a huge wooded bank beside their fairway is a rather special area of 'rough'. Time Team's experts discovered, that 90 years ago it was a machine gun firing range - and buried in the bank are tens of thousands of spent bullets. Belton House near Grantham may be one of Britain's finest stately homes but during World War I, the grounds were home to thousands of men training for frontline duties. It was where the Machine Gun Corps was created and its troops were trained. The Corps was set up as a response to German superiority in using these deadly weapons and became vital to the war effort. Most of the Machine Gun Corps' records were destroyed, first in a fire and then in the Blitz in World War II. Today almost nothing is visible above ground. Tony Robinson and the Team have quite a task to locate the hundreds of barrack blocks, kitchen blocks, roads, social centres and shooting ranges. To the Team's relief, the dig
Certification: | TV-G |
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Tony Robinson |
Self - Presenter |
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Carenza Lewis |
Herself |
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Raksha Dave |
Self - Field Archeologist |
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Phil Harding |
Self - Field Archaeologist |
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John Gater |
Self - Geophysicist |
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Stewart Ainsworth |
Self - Landscape Investigator |
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Francis Pryor |
Self - Bronze Age Specialist |
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