Château Colombière
Commemorating & honouring the
326th Airborne Medical Company
The Groups
Here you'll find a brief history & information of each of the groups that come together to put on our reenactment of the 326th Airborne Medical Company's Collecting Station
Display Groups/Organisational Groups
Airborne Medical Reenactment Group
The Airborne Medical Reenactment Group, or AMRG for short, is one of the working groups of the Living History Group Holland. The Living History Group Holland (LHGH) was founded on January 31, 2001, but previously existed unofficially as the British Airborne Group Holland. The goal of the LHGH is to keep military history alive by portraying units from that era. Several working groups are currently active within the LHGH, depicting the period 1940-1945.Officially, we've only been a working group of LHGH for a few years, but several of our members have been collaborating at events for over 15 years to create a collective representation of medical personnel. Many were already members of various reenactment/living history groups. However, we felt a more permanent structure was needed. AMRG was built on this vision.
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HBT'44 (Hospital Battalion Team'44)
HBT'44 (hospital battalion team) is an association (French law of 1901), created in June 2013 by a group of friends with a passion for re-enactment and the US Army Medical Corps. Following this shared passion, we decided to recreate a field hospital in the European theater in the 1940s. We also practice living history. In other words, we live on the camp as it was in the 40s, and carry out the activities associated with a field hospital (block surgery, evacuation, surveillance of the wounded, etc.). As a result, we offer an almost exact representation of a military hospital during the Second World War.
Hospitales de Campagña USA
The Hospitales de campaña USA group was born in 2021, due to the passion for the medical corps of the American army during World War II, of its two founders, Francisco Díaz Arriaza and Pelayo Álvarez -Valle García. During this time, with a lot of effort, dedication and hours of research, it has been possible to gather an important collection of original material for the deployment of a large operating room, in terms of instruments, medications and bandages. We also have a personal collection of other objects, always related to medical units, which allow us to continue safeguarding history. For the next few years, the idea is to continue growing both in quality of material and quantity. Our firm commitment to the history of the Second World War and the events that happened there lead us to continue being part of it, in the celebrations of Normandy and in the not too distant future, also in those of Bastogne.