I don't know if you noticed the blue plaque across the street from the IWM, marking the home of Captain Bligh, of the HMS Bounty. Was a B&B, now up for sale I believe.
Interestingly there where 15,000 Indian soldiers at Gallipoli. In defence of the IWMs use of the bandoleer equipment pattern 1903 on the depiction of the Indian soldier. The equipment tended to stay in front line use longer with the British Indian Army than with any of the other colonys. There are in fact photos of 1st/6th Gurkha rifles and 21st Indian Battery fighting at Gallipoli using the equipment. The last time it is seen in front line use by a non mounted British unit is the 1st/5th Lancashire Fusiliers at Gallipoli. At certain points in the great war the bandoleer equipment pattern 1903 was issued as a stop gap for territorial units. I find IWM London disappointing it could be so much more yet is sparce and lacks detail. A lot of the large exhibits have moved to IWM Duxford.
At ANZAC cove there are rows of graves of the Indian labourers charged with burying the war dead, in turn to be buried themselves, victims of the Spanish Flu epidemic.
I have a picture of my great grandfather who served as a private in Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry B.E.F.1914. In the photo he's pictured in uniform possibly before his deployment to France with an ammunition bandolier positioned across his chest.
@@axelusul absolutely. But I wasn't just the British empire that treated their colonial troops badly. The French also had colonial soldiers in both world wars. I can imagine their treatment was extremely poor.
I have been visiting the museum on and off for 50 years or so and I resonated with the comment about spaces being empty. Forgive the old man rant, but in the old days it was stuffed and you constantly came across small and personal things you didn’t notice on previous visits, most of which are today tucked away in storage never to be seen by the public. In presentation it was a book jacket blurb that tempted you to learn the story for yourself. Trivially, it did a wonderful rum baba in the cafe in the seventies…. Today it assumes you are ignorant or stupid, so you get just a few selected items and the chosen story told in short baby talk form to save the idle public the trouble of learning anything themselves. Nice to see Adrianople briefly mentioned . My great grandmother came from there and at least two of my relatives died there in the Bulgarian army in the Balkan wars.
I perceived you were not as impressed with the IWM as much, but nonetheless I found your the video very interesting and informative. I really enjoyed it. Thank you! Regards from Canada
Since you were appreciating the immersive trench and the focus on the experience of troops, I should mention US Army History & Education Center (AHEC), at Army War College, Carlisle Barracks. Grounds have a variety of walkable trenches, fighting positions, huts; and the museum exhibits have personal experience focus.
The IWM recently under went an extremely expensive upgrade and I paid a visit 3 years ago it's taken some of the more interesting displays away as I've made previous visits. Incredibly interesting. If I lived in London I would probably spend alot of my free time there.
You should have gone there before £21,000,000 of 'Improvements' were done a while back. It was then a proper museuem, the staff knew their stuff, and the reading room was beyond compare. You want Cannon, and sakirs, and falcons, got to the Mary Rose Museum. Take tent, sandwichs, the staff will talk your ears off, and they also love someone who is knowelable.
@@theministryforhistory The Submarine musuem at Gosport, they have Holland 1, and the hidden gem! EXPLOSION! The Musuem of Naval Firepower at Prithy's Hard. Don't forget Fort Nelson, the Royal Amouries Artillery Collection, they have the other Mailliet mortar. Just chuck a stick in any direction 😁
Fort Nelson is my top priority above all the others - there are so many cannons to see including the Dardanelles gun. I have a video on Mallet's mortar, but I visited the one at Woolwich! Looking forward to seeing the other one.
There is an unexploded 15" armour piercing shell that hit the Cathedrale di San Lorenzo at Genoa, negligently fired by HMS Malaya - AP shells don't tend to go off when they hit a soft target. Malaya was one of the QE2 class super-dreadnoughts, predecessor but same guns, to the Revenge class that included Ramillies & Resolution. Fired at RM Duilio in the Genoa dry-dock during Operation Grog, February, 1941. If you speak Italian, here is a review: ua-cam.com/video/dbZWI4UQtx4/v-deo.html
Great start for our new year. Thanks.
Really enjoying these museum tours/reviews
The Turk is here
Müşir Enver Paşa Hazretleri! Resmi gezidesiniz galiba?! ;)
its a wonderful presentation. thank you
I don't know if you noticed the blue plaque across the street from the IWM, marking the home of Captain Bligh, of the HMS Bounty.
Was a B&B, now up for sale I believe.
Interestingly there where 15,000 Indian soldiers at Gallipoli.
In defence of the IWMs use of the bandoleer equipment pattern 1903 on the depiction of the Indian soldier. The equipment tended to stay in front line use longer with the British Indian Army than with any of the other colonys. There are in fact photos of 1st/6th Gurkha rifles and 21st Indian Battery fighting at Gallipoli using the equipment.
The last time it is seen in front line use by a non mounted British unit is the 1st/5th Lancashire Fusiliers at Gallipoli.
At certain points in the great war the bandoleer equipment pattern 1903 was issued as a stop gap for territorial units.
I find IWM London disappointing it could be so much more yet is sparce and lacks detail. A lot of the large exhibits have moved to IWM Duxford.
At ANZAC cove there are rows of graves of the Indian labourers charged with burying the war dead, in turn to be buried themselves, victims of the Spanish Flu epidemic.
I went in 2016 d I found it disappointing
I have a picture of my great grandfather who served as a private in Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry B.E.F.1914. In the photo he's pictured in uniform possibly before his deployment to France with an ammunition bandolier positioned across his chest.
Have a lot of respect for the Indian Troop's, excellent troops and wasted by BEF.
@@axelusul absolutely. But I wasn't just the British empire that treated their colonial troops badly. The French also had colonial soldiers in both world wars. I can imagine their treatment was extremely poor.
I have been visiting the museum on and off for 50 years or so and I resonated with the comment about spaces being empty. Forgive the old man rant, but in the old days it was stuffed and you constantly came across small and personal things you didn’t notice on previous visits, most of which are today tucked away in storage never to be seen by the public.
In presentation it was a book jacket blurb that tempted you to learn the story for yourself. Trivially, it did a wonderful rum baba in the cafe in the seventies…. Today it assumes you are ignorant or stupid, so you get just a few selected items and the chosen story told in short baby talk form to save the idle public the trouble of learning anything themselves.
Nice to see Adrianople briefly mentioned . My great grandmother came from there and at least two of my relatives died there in the Bulgarian army in the Balkan wars.
The most Turkish Turk you have ever seen
I used to climb up those guns at the front as a kid!
I perceived you were not as impressed with the IWM as much, but nonetheless I found your the video very interesting and informative. I really enjoyed it. Thank you! Regards from Canada
Since you were appreciating the immersive trench and the focus on the experience of troops, I should mention US Army History & Education Center (AHEC), at Army War College, Carlisle Barracks. Grounds have a variety of walkable trenches, fighting positions, huts; and the museum exhibits have personal experience focus.
Talking about mascots, Dog Fritz who was adopted by the Hampshire regiment after they took Arromarches on DDay.
There regimental many is in Winchester
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Is that my Lord Rivers I see?
The IWM recently under went an extremely expensive upgrade and I paid a visit 3 years ago it's taken some of the more interesting displays away as I've made previous visits. Incredibly interesting. If I lived in London I would probably spend alot of my free time there.
Yeah the intention is 'To Atrract Corperate Events'. Maratime Museum went down same road.
@@51WCDodge not good
Queen Victoria would be proud
I agree that much of the interesting items are not on display.
You should have gone there before £21,000,000 of 'Improvements' were done a while back. It was then a proper museuem, the staff knew their stuff, and the reading room was beyond compare. You want Cannon, and sakirs, and falcons, got to the Mary Rose Museum. Take tent, sandwichs, the staff will talk your ears off, and they also love someone who is knowelable.
That sounds brilliant! I've been meaning to make it down to Portsmouth. Really looking forward to seeing the Mary Rose, Victory, and Warrior.
@@theministryforhistory The Submarine musuem at Gosport, they have Holland 1, and the hidden gem! EXPLOSION! The Musuem of Naval Firepower at Prithy's Hard. Don't forget Fort Nelson, the Royal Amouries Artillery Collection, they have the other Mailliet mortar. Just chuck a stick in any direction 😁
Fort Nelson is my top priority above all the others - there are so many cannons to see including the Dardanelles gun. I have a video on Mallet's mortar, but I visited the one at Woolwich! Looking forward to seeing the other one.
There is an unexploded 15" armour piercing shell that hit the Cathedrale di San Lorenzo at Genoa, negligently fired by HMS Malaya - AP shells don't tend to go off when they hit a soft target. Malaya was one of the QE2 class super-dreadnoughts, predecessor but same guns, to the Revenge class that included Ramillies & Resolution. Fired at RM Duilio in the Genoa dry-dock during Operation Grog, February, 1941. If you speak Italian, here is a review:
ua-cam.com/video/dbZWI4UQtx4/v-deo.html
I been here
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I bet the Armenians wish that the Turks had had a break
After Gallipoli the Ottoman Turks started to exterminate the Armenians. To this day they deny it.