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A full day of presentations at Chelmsford

7/25/2014

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On Wednesday 02 July 2014 PPP delivered multi character presentations to Widford Lodge preparatory School in Chelmsford.

The first character to be introduced to year three Was Private Parsons surrounded by the usual furniture of war, sound effects and complete with smoke the pupils took in the full extent of trench life.

Pte Parsons presented to four classes of years three and four and was able to impart on all of them what life and trench routine entailed in 1915.


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Pte Parsons of the 19 (St Pancras) Battalion the London Regiment in a captured German trench at Festubert.
Corporal Parsons was next up to conduct presentations to year five who were introduced to recruit life and basic training 1914 style.  Pupils were selected to be attested and these individuals were able to wear an original Derby scheme armband and learned the process behind the scheme and why it was established.

Two other pupil recruits from each class were inducted into wearing service uniforms and 1908 webbing equipment.  The pupils could see and feel the texture of the uniforms and learned about the webbing equipment that a recruit would need to carry.

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Corporal Parsons fits out two recruits with equipment.
Following these presentations the pupils were led outside to learn and experience the rigours of foot drill.  The pupils were instructed in the arts of how to “size off” and “form fours”.

After a WW1 culinary dish, the recipe for which was provided by PPP as part of the Pre Arrival Pack, it was the turn of Private Placid to present to year two.

Pte Placid explained the route and stages of casualty evacuation from the front line using the medium of a chalk board.

The highlight for the students was to try on examples of the various head protection worn by all Armies on the Western front.


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PARSONS PERIOD PRESENTATIONS AT ESSEX FARM YPRES

1/5/2014

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The 29 September 1917 saw the allied forces defending the counter attacks by three German Divisions on the Battlefield of Flanders as part of the ongoing struggle to take the elusive objective of Passchendaele, the village that was to give its name to the third Battle of Ypres.

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Pte Placid of Parsons Period Presentations, pondering the next presentation.
On 29 September 2013 Parsons Period Presentations (PPP) staged a presentation in the Advanced Dressing Station of Essex Farm. The very location which, ninety six years earlier was used as one of the definitive medical support facilities to the Battle. The Presentation took the form of PPP comparing the differences with the casualty Evacuation process in 1917, in comparison to that of the modern battlefield, to the Reservists of 207 Field Hospital.

The presentations allowed the spectators to conduct the usual hands on history policy of PPP by engaging with the audience and encouraging them to handle 1917 equipment and medical supplies.


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The presentations were conducted with the full authentic furniture of war in the genuine setting where John McCrae served as a Medical Officer. To be invited to deliver a presentation, with the blessing of the mayors department of Ypres, was not only an honour but a sheer delight. However, quite a surprise to the coach loads of tourists who had descended on Essex Farm to see the dressing station where John McCrea had written, the now famous poem “in flanders Fields”.

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The Officers Mess of Essex Farm, being used as a dressing room by PPP.
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Batemans National Trust WW1 Weekend

8/15/2013

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At the National Trust WW1 weekend that was billed to coincide with the 99th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One held over the weekend of 03-04 August 2013.  Parsons Period Presentations conducted public displays and talks in conjunction with the 10th Essex Living History Group.  

Following a simulated Battle conducted by the 10th Essex, the natural flow of the extraction of a casualty was followed by the audience.

In the setting of Rudyard Kipling’s Jacobean home Parsons Period Presentations conducted an educational display of the chain of Casualty Evacuation.  With the use of child volunteers the audience learnt how a casualty was evacuated through the various stages until he reached definitive Medical care.






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