I’ve heard that there is a ww2 rifle range below the fovant badges has anyone got any info on this please
Fovant Badges Society At Fovant this was the largest of many such camps: billets and training areas, together with powerhouses, water pumping stations from deep bore wells, firing ranges, practice for bayonets and grenade throwing, parade grounds, mule lines, YMCA, a Garrison Cinema, a large hospital, all served by a railway link from the main line at Dinton, with a station and marshalling yard at Fovant. The camp stretched both sides of the A 30 road, from Sutton Mandeville (beneath the Swallowcliffe Downs) through Fovant Down, Compton Chamberlayne, and to the outskirts of Barford St Martin. Try contacting them Fovant Rifle Range graffiti. Fovant Rifle Range graffiti. Fovant Rifle Range is now disused, but was one of two ranges associated with the extensive camps present during World War I. The accompanying photograph taken about that time shows that the westernmost range was below the badge of the Devonshire Regiment cut into the hillside. TD
