Drawn on the Western Front: Paul Sarrut and the Indian Army

Through a unique selection of intimate sketches, this free exhibition offers a rare glimpse of everyday life for soldiers serving far from home during the First World War.

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3-15 Nov 2026 Free

Forgotten India at 80: The Stories You Don’t Know

This special display sheds light on the experiences of South Asian communities during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath.

The Quetta Platoon, Women’s Auxiliary Corps (India), in civilian dress, 1942

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6 Nov 2026 Free

Women’s War Work: Indian Women and the Second World War

Join Dr Kiran Sahota as she highlights the important roles played by Indian women during the Second World War.

Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Tending graves in cemetery at Etaples, 1919

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13 Nov 2026 Free

Grief, Ghosts and the Search for Summerland

Dr Alice Vernon examines how spiritualism helped bereaved families come to terms with the trauma of the First World War.

An exterior photograph of the entrance to the National Army Museum

The new home for Lord Ashcroft's Victoria Crosses and George Crosses

From summer 2026, the National Army Museum will display medals from the Lord Ashcroft Collection, showcasing remarkable stories of bravery.

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Stories of alliance

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Nato and the British Army

Nato has been the cornerstone of British defence planning for over 70 years. Originally formed as a bulwark against communism, more recently it has been involved in peacekeeping roles and the ‘war on terror’.

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Corporal Danny Groves

Danny Groves served as a mortar section commander with the Royal Irish Regiment in Afghanistan in 2006. At Musa Qala, he was embroiled in one of the Army’s most intense and gruelling sieges of recent times.

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In Their Own Words: Staff Sergeant Chantelle Taylor

Chantelle Taylor served as a combat medic during the war in Afghanistan. In 2008, while on patrol in Helmand Province, she became the first female British soldier to kill an enemy combatant at close quarters.

Detail from a jacket worn by Captain John Malcolmson VC, c1860

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