WWI is reenacted on an authentically recreated portion of the Western Front as it appeared circa 1917-1918. The reenactors in these demonstrations wear carefully reproduced uniforms and equipment of both the Central Powers and Allied armies. The use of original drill and tactics is also emphasized in WWI reenacting. Behind the front line are supporting trenches and dugouts, where officers plan attacks and counterattacks and where the soldiers eat and rest. The sights and sounds of battle are carefully reproduced by blank cartridges in the rifles and pyrotechnic devices that simulate grenades.
Mortars fire rounds which fly through the air, to land and detonate harmlessly.
Other devices spew out colored smoke to imitate poison gas and at night, flares illuminate the landscape giving a surealistic view. A familiar soldier's refrain. Our goal is to accurately portray the common infantryman of the Great War. We accomplish this by accurately recreating his appearance, but we also carefully research and demonstrate the details of his life, duties and occasional pastimes at the front. From the moment you arrive at an event you will be submerged in the Great War.