Saturday, 8 August 2015

Imperial War Museum

Last time we went to the Imperial War Museum in London, the WW1 galleries were being redeveloped so we had a return visit to the museum on our list of things to see



The exhibition was broken up into a number of themes including  a number of recruiting posters from the British Empire on display:


My interest was in the section on Pozieres which is where my great grandfather was killed in 1916.


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We also had a wander through the WW2 gallery - two things that stood out for me was the lack of information on the occupation of the Channel Islands during the war and little on POWs particularly those captured in the Far East. 

While the IWM is much larger than the Australian War Memorial, I still believe that our memorial provides a better comprehensive coverage of our involvement in war and commemorates the service of all.


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