Bulford Kiwi

Bulford, a military town on the Salisbury Plain was host in 1919 to soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who were awaiting repatriation at the end of the First World War. Obviously the troops were anxious to get home, so to keep them busy it was decided to carve a Kiwi in the chalk.

Apart from the chalk carving, the New Zealander's stay has left its mark in street names and with the local primary school being known as the Kiwi School.

You can climb to the Kiwi site but closeup it is hard to fathom; to see it properly it is necessary to move on to the hillside a kilometre to the north west.

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