From 'Glosters' .........to Guiders

Just outside Milstead, near Sittingbourne, in a remote area known to the locals as Hornhill, it is easy to miss this brick and stone memorial - half-hidden in the hedgerow.

It records the fact that, in the fields beyond, units of the Gloucestershire Regiment were encamped during the tragic years of World war 1.  Doubtless  the troops - mostly young men already removed from their homes - were destined to serve in the trenches on the Western Front;  one wonders how many of them were never to return.

Today those same fields form part of a regional centre of the Guides Association; so where once men were drilled and trained for war, today young people enjoy fun, games and the country scene and build friendships as they prepare for life.