The £99,600 Digging In project is funded by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant and will be carried out by a partnership involving the University of Glasgow, Stewart’s Melville College, Glasgow City Council and Northlight Heritage.

Work on the reconstructions will begin in August and will open to the public on 19th September, during Doors Open Week.

The attraction will host a regular programme of public events and school visits and will run until November 2018, reflecting the duration of the war.

Hands-on learning activities and living history events will help convey how soldiers managed life in the hostile, stressful environment of the Western Front and the conflict’s impact on communities on the Home Front.

The reconstructions will serve as a hub for learning about many aspects of the war: its impact on mental health; the role of women during the conflict; advances in medicine, technology, aerial photography and mapping; influences on contemporary art and literature, and the origins of the Forestry Commission.

Visitors will be informed by field manuals that were issued to troops, and soldiers’ diaries as well as evidence from excavations on the Western Front.

The trenches location in Pollok Country Park will also highlight the role of Pollok House in the Great War, from its use as an auxiliary hospital for convalescing soldiers to the memorial commemorating the 58 people from the estate who served in the conflict.

Dr Tony Pollard, Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, said: “As a conflict archaeologist who has excavated trenches and graves on the Western Front, I know it is impossible to step back in time and fully appreciate what it was like to have been there during the Great War. But I am really looking forward to Digging In, and applying what I have learned in helping to create a unique learning environment, within which it will be possible for children and adults alike to get a visceral insight into the semi-subterranean world in which soldiers lived and in so many cases died.”