Organizers of the popular wartime recreation event have reminded visitors that no Nazi uniforms should be worn.
 
Wartime in the Cotswolds returns for its fifth year this weekend and is a nostalgic event celebrating family life in the 1940s.
 
The event encourages members of the public to attend in period dress before embarking on a steam train between Cheltenham and Broadway station.
 
But organizers have warned attendees against offensive fancy dress ahead of the event.
 
The event description says, "Members of the public are encouraged to attend the weekend in British 1940's period dress, either military or civilian. German uniforms will NOT be allowed, especially Nazi and SS uniforms with any form of swastika or insignia. Firearms of any sort, replica or de-activated, will NOT be allowed on site unless authorized in advance by the organizers."
 
Whilst in previous years visitors have adhered to the rules, organizers have reminded guests its a light-hearted family event.
 
A spokesman for the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway said, "We have been running this event for five years now and at the outset when we started planning we made the decision that it would be a light-hearted family event based on family life in the 1940s, and not the war, and as an example we have Laurel and Hardy and others entertaining our visitors. We have stated from the beginning that no Nazi uniforms be worn and all re-enactors attending have adhered to this."
 
At the event King George VI, General Montgomery, and Winston Churchill will be present and they will deliver speeches in the centre of Winchcombe on Saturday afternoon.
 
A bus will be available to transfer visitors from Winchcombe Station into the centre of the town.
 
Louisa Baldwin.