It's not often in the 21st century that one can see Red Coats patrolling around Salisbury Cathedral Close, but that's exactly what visitors witnessed over the past weekend as the Rifles, Berkshire and Wiltshire Museum held its annual Living History Festival, featuring representatives from the 32nd Cornwall Regiment of Foot, the Coldstream Guards, the Royal Army Medical Corps, and the Home Guard.

Along with numerous reenactors exhibiting different eras of British military history from the Georgian era to the Second World War, festival-goers were also presented with the opportunity to see war-era guns, rations and historical field medicine technology. 

Spectators were also treated to a match of “war cricket,” a version of the game played during the First World War when first-class cricket was discontinued and matches were held between members from different branches of the Armed Forces.