A WAR experience event in East Lothian will bring wartime stories to life.
Organised by the National Museum of Flight in East Fortune, the event on Sunday will include Second World War encampments, battle displays, 1940s music, children’s activities and talks.
The day out will allow visitors to interact with living history groups in British, German and American wartime camps, and to watch military tactic demonstrations, table-top war games and a Second World War battle re-enactment. Visitors can meet a Clydesdale horse, one of the equine breeds conscripted into action during the First World War, and one which also played an important part in agriculture during both wars.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the First World War, musician Thoren Ferguson will perform on two violins crafted by Edinburgh instrument maker Steve Burnett in honour of poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Both violins were created from a sycamore tree that still grows in the grounds of the former Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where both men were treated for shell shock.
Other music includes Glasgow-based trio The Ragtime Dolls, who will sing some 1940s favourites, while the Fly Right Dance Company will teach dance steps from both wartime eras.
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