World War I Firing Walls

World War I Firing Walls

Among the trees and trails of Wellesley Woodland in Aldershot, a town whose history deeply is tied to the British Army, stand the remnants of a World War I machine gun range. Aldershot had, by the dawn of the 20th century, transformed from a small village into the undisputed “Home of the British Army.” This transformation saw Aldershot become, by 1914, the largest army camp in the country, housing 20 percent of the entire British Army. These two…