Fighting Extremes: From Ebola to ISIS
Strange display at the Imperial War Museum looking at two exercises involving
British troops in 2015 the fights against Ebola and Isis.
In the Isis section I loved the pair of boots donated by Major Stephen Brooks with a list of where he’d served on the sole of one.
I say strange
because with the Isis campaign it is still ongoing and it seems far too soon to
comment on it in the dispassionate manner required of a museum. Each topic was
dealt with in a similar way with an AV display, a great set of photographs and
some interesting objects.
The section on
Ebola was fascinating and it was moving to see things which had belonged to the
troops which went out. I loved the ingenuity of an improvised devise called a
tippy-tappy for washing hands made of a water container on a stick!
In the Isis section I loved the pair of boots donated by Major Stephen Brooks with a list of where he’d served on the sole of one.
Closes on 13
November 2016
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