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#1
05-02-17, 03:43 PM
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War Tophies Store,IWM,Hesdin,1917
A Collector's dream...wonder what happened to all this.
Q 44822 http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/312/309/large_000000.jpg Q 44821 http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/312/308/large_000000.jpg
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05-02-17, 05:37 PM
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On my way back from the 2ND Gulf War i had an AK47 bayonet taken off me by the Royal Military Police. I did ask wether i could keep it as i collected Military at the time, but got told if i wanted it i would have to write to The War Trophies place. I don't know where now as I've forgot. Very annoying due to the fact you could buy them in markets in the UK.
Andy
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05-02-17, 06:06 PM
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I've heard similar stories from WW2 Canadians soldiers returning from Europe,being told, by the MPs, to surrender all and every german handguns (and other ordnance...) if they had any.The trick was that the an officer in a unit put spurious official-looking labels saying that it was for the "regimental museum". Jo
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
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#4
06-02-17, 08:57 AM
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hello Jo,
Il n'y a plus de musée 14-18 à Hesdin. Il y avait beaucoup d'officiers des différents quartiers généraux dans cette ville de l'arrière front...... Ceci explique peut être cela? De plus l'esprit "collection" était loin de ces régions plus ou moins dévastées par la guerre. There is no more museum 14-18 in Hesdin. There were many officers from different headquarters in this city from the rear front ...... This might explain that? Moreover, the "collection" spirit was far from those regions more or less devastated by the war. Bonne journée. Jean-Paul
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#5
06-02-17, 11:54 AM
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The IWM was founded in 1917 (first called National then changed to Imperial)and I believe initially intended to have examples of everything, weapons, uniforms etc- clearly impossible to sustain in the light of subsequent wars that, for most people, were totally unforseen.
Charlie This extract explains the Hesdin collection iwm hesdin.JPG
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06-02-17, 03:23 PM
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Sadly, the IWM at Lambeth is not a patch on what it was in the 1950's and 60's
It was a real treasure trove then; the badge rooms displayed every variation of WW1 and, as far as I can recall WW2, cap badge and shoulder titles. Having a subsequent fire (arson) didn't help but the displays have been thinned down so much that it's a shadow of its former self.
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