Page 41 - QARANC Vol 14 No 9 2014

New Display at The Tank Museum - “Army Wife, Military Life”
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A group of Army wives, stationed at Bovington Camp, have been working with The Tank Museum to produce a new display on what life is like for Army families which was officially opened on Friday 2nd May.
Members of the Coffee and Chat Army Wives group, who meet to socialise and support each other, have been getting together at the Museum since last October as part of the Museum’s Outreach Programme. Together they came up with ideas to represent their way of life in a new display based at The Tank Museum.
Financed by The Army Covenant Fund, the aim of this new display is to give people an insight into what it’s like to be married to a soldier. Named ‘Army Wife, Military Life’, it is divided in to three sections: ‘Home’, which focuses on the challenges associated with moving every few years, ‘Operational Tours’, one of the hardest times for a military family and ‘Experiences’, looking at the opportunities being married to a soldier can give you.
Felicity Wood, Education officer at The Tank Museum said “This exhibition is the result of 7 months of hard work by this fantastic group of Army wives. The Museum contains a huge amount about tanks and the lives of tank crews and it’s fantastic to enrich that story by including the experiences of their spouses and families. The display is one of a number of community projects that I’ve been working on to help engage the local community with the Museum”.
The highlight of the exhibition is a series of boxes each filled
The Coffee & Chat group, from left to right Jaimie Hoy, Carla Thorpe, Helena Grant, Vanessa Crossey (Matron - Medical Reception Station, Bovington Camp), Katrina Halkerston and Felicity Wood (The Tank Museum)
with items from different parts of family life, including school uniforms and home furnishings specially chosen by the group. Felicity Wood
Education Officer The Tank Museum Bovington, Dorset, UK BH20 6JG