{"id":35783,"date":"2023-03-07T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35783"},"modified":"2023-03-04T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T18:11:43","slug":"hes-seeks-views-on-first-world-war-military-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35783","title":{"rendered":"HES seeks views on First World War Military Training Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=69561935\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35784\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hut_at_the_former_Stobs_Military_Camp_Jim_Barton_Commons_Wiki.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>A historic military training camp could soon have its key features recognised as scheduled monuments as Historic Environment Scotland (HES) seeks views on proposals to designate Stobs Camp.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: By Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=69561935<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Scottish Construction Now<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The site, located near Hawick and spanning 7 square kilometres, consists of a civilian internment camp, prisoner-of-war camp and training trenches, all from the First World War, along with a tank target range used for military training up to and during the Korean War.<\/p>\n<p>The Stobs Estate was originally purchased by the War Office in 1902, with the aim of having a permanent training base and barracks for one of the Army Corps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Dara Parsons, head of designations at HES, said: \u201cStobs Camp is an outstanding monument to Scotland\u2019s role in the two great conflicts of the 20th century. It gives us a unique insight into the experience of those involved in these conflicts; those that served in the British military, civilian internees and prisoners of war&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishconstructionnow.com\/articles\/hes-seeks-views-on-first-world-war-military-training-camp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A historic military training camp could soon have its key features recognised as scheduled monuments as Historic Environment Scotland (HES) seeks views on proposals to designate Stobs Camp. image: By Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=69561935<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35785,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35783\/revisions\/35785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}