Centenaries of WW1 continue to roll out

[mike carey]

As Australians have for other battles over the last couple of years, today Canadians marked the centenary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in which thousands of Canadian soldiers died. Pairs of army boots were the symbolic representation at the commemoration. Prime Minister Trudeau spoke at the memorial in northern France, as did the Prince of Wales. Princes William and Harry were also present. Many commemorations remain over the next 18 months.

 

In the Great War, 61,000 Canadians died, along with 1,300 Newfoundlanders.

[+ bigjoey]

Shameless plug for Kansas City:

https://www.theworldwar.org/

 

The National World War I Museum in Kansas City is one of the best museums anywhere. Very modern with lots of multi-media things (you can go into a "listening room" and push buttons to hear World War I songs, poems, speeches, etc.). It has one of the few working World War I tanks left. It tells the story from the beginning of the social background, through the trench warfare to the treaty at the end.

 

If you want a World War I experience, it is not to be missed.

 

[Gay card points: pick Queen Marie of Romania out of the large mural of important people of the time]

[mike carey]

A shameless plug back for the Australian War Memorial, https://www.awm.gov.au/ One of the certainties of entertaining US military visitors, in Canberra for country to country talks or any other international military meetings, was that they would visit the AWM and be stunned by it.

[+ WilliamM]

Sarajevo also has a World War One museum centering on the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As important, the people who lived in the city during the war mostly with Serbia are open to discussing those years in the 1990s.