SUTTON Travels: World War I trenches

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15 May 2019

Imperial War Museum London England

Imperial War Museum London / Sutton 16 April 2016

Britain has been a part of the world's wars for centuries. The Imperial War Museum in London is worth a visit to understand the life of soldiers as well as the lives of those at home. Because the wars involved many world powers, there's much to learn about other nations as well. Of course, the machinery of war is also on display in the air and on the ground. Well worth a visit.

The presence of RAF planes hanging from the ceiling illustrate the size of the museum.

There are tanks and other large war machines and vehicles on display.

A number of story boards and posters explain or illustrate various exhibits.

From the simulated trench exhibit during the WWI centennial.

Exhibits include allied nations

Hours: The museum is open 10 - 6 daily except for 24, 25, 26 December

Admission: Free

Refreshments: A Cafe is available.

Toilets: They were well maintained when I visited.

Exhibits: These vary so check the website for details

Storage: Only small lockers are available.

Accessibility: See the website

Locations: This post is about the London site. There are other locations--see the website

London Address: Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ

Website: https://www.iwm.org.uk/

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04 January 2019

Guide to WORLD WAR I in FRANCE posts

WORLD WAR I in FRANCE

The following links take you to the post about the sites along The Western Front of World War I.

On the occasion of the centenary of World War I in 2018, I traveled The Western Front from Belgium to the Swiss Border and remembered the Armistice of 11 November 1918 at the Cenotaph in London, England.

Pozières The Windmill honouring Australian troops in Northern France

Pozières Tank Corp memorial near the first use of tanks

Lochnagar Crater and the British offensive known as the Battle of the Somme. The mine blasted ground when the Battle of the Somme began 1 July 1916

Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial Park honouring British troops from

Newfoundland

Thiepval Memorial, Visitor Centre, and Museum The memorial honours British

and South African troops

Compiegne —the site of the 1918 Armistice

Meaux Museum —an extensive battlefield museum

La Ferté-sous-Jouarre —British war memorial including monuments to the

Royal Engineers

Belleau Wood and the American Monument – remembering U.S. Marines who fought here

in 1918

Chateau-Thierry and the American memorial —impressive memorial

atop a hill by the Marne River

Les Fantômes Memorial Sculpture by Paul Landowski— creative sculpture

located at the Second Battle of the Marne 1918

Soisson The British Memorial honouring about 4,000 British Commonwealth troops,

who died in the Battles of the Aisne and Marne.

Aisne —Cerny en Loannois — picturesque village with a chapel and cemetery

in the area known as Chemin des Dames

Aisne and the Monument to the Crapouillots French artillerymen

honoured in a monument shaped like a mortar shell

Tank Corp Memorial This memorial includes several large scale tanks.

Le Main de Massiges and the impressive reconstructed trenches

Hill of Vauquois and the devastation of mine warfare. A village is obliterated.

Romagne a small town with an interesting museum on the way to the

American cemetery of the Meuse-Argonne battle

Meuse-Argonne —an impressive American Memorial near Verdun

Voie Sacrée Memorial on the way to Verdun the sacred supply route

The Battle of Verdun —Verdun and the nearby Museum

Trench of Bayonets memorial and the Battle of Verdun

Douamont Ossuary and Cemetery and the Battle of Verdun

Romanian (aka Rumanian) Military Cemetery at Soultzmatt France

Le Ligne Museum and Trenches located in the beauty of the mountains.

Ilfurth—a German Cemetery

Vieil Armand Battlefield also known as Hartmannswillerkopf—National Monument

Pfetterhouse at the Swiss Border

See also...

World War I in Belgium

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