War (and peace) is over as the organisers of Kent's biggest military revival announce the 2015 spectacle will be the last.

The War and Peace Revival is entering its 33rd year this year but this year's show from July 22 to 26 at Folkestone Racecourse is going to be the final one.

Organiser Rex Cadman, who has run the show for 27 of its 33 years along with Barbara Shea, made the announcement today.

He said: "Barbara and I have organised War and Peace for 27 years this year and she is ready to retire, so we decided that as we started this journey together, after much thought we would end it together.

"We’re very proud to have grown the show from a small club event with about 100 vehicles, to the world’s largest military show, seeing over 4,000 vehicles and 100,000 people.

"A great many other military vehicle shows have War and Peace as their parentage, having grown out of our event.

For the last few years the show has taken on more of an education role, introducing schools' day in 2009 and various exhibits commemorating some of the most significant military events in history.

Over 2,500 children visited to experience a taste of wartime Britain last year.

Mr Cadman added he hoped a new group would come in and move the show forward in years to come.

“We’ve had an amazing time, but sadly all good things must come to an end," he said.

"The 2015 War and Peace Revival will be our last show – it may also be the last War and Peace ever unless someone or a group comes forward to take it on!”

War and Peace evolved from the annual Invicta Military Vehicle Preservation Society Club event at Tenterden railway station in 1982 before moving to the Hop Farm in Paddock in 1987.

It was first held at Folkestone Racecourse in 2013.

For more information about this year's exhibits and to secure tickets for the last ever show visit www.thewarandpeacerevival.co.uk

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