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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 32, August 3, 2014, Article 21

MEDALS IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR AT SEA EXHIBIT

Medals are among the items shown at a new World War I exhibit at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. -Editor

John Travers Cornwell medal 1918 Forgotten Fighters: The First World War at Sea opens at the National Maritime Museum exploring the naval and maritime dimensions of the conflict.

The horrors of the Western Front have long dominated our understanding of those years, and yet the war at sea was fought on an epic scale and with terrible human loss.

Forgotten Fighters foregrounds the personal stories of those who participated through a wide range of objects including weaponry, photographs, medals and ship models. The gallery takes visitors from the heroism of merchant mariners to the shattering realities of naval battle, and from the Falkland Islands and the Mediterranean to the Atlantic and the North Sea.

The exhibition uncovers the individual stories of reservists, WRENs, pilots and submariners involved, illustrating the importance and impact of the Royal and Merchant Navy throughout the First World War on our nation. Despite their activities often being unseen or unreported, the men and women of the Royal Navy and merchant fleet were intrinsic to Britain’s contribution to WWI. Their war raged on the sea, beneath the waves, in the air and also on land.

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To read the complete article, see: 'Forgotten Fighters: the First World War at Sea' opens at the National Maritime Museum (artdaily.com/news/71787/-Forgotten-Fighters--the-First-World-War-at-Sea--opens-at-the-National-Maritime-Museum#.U9zj5_mzG5U)

For more information, see: Forgotten Fighters: the First World War and the Sea (www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/forgotten-fighters/about)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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