IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM...
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On Wednesday 23 September, my wife and I were at the Imperial War Museum. I'm researching my fathers Royal Naval Service and getting some hands on information instead of relying solely on Google, which makes me giddy keep going round and round in circles. Whilst there we of course had to have a look around. Now some of you may know I love the unusual, the strange, the freaks, the different. So when I came across this exhibit, I was really taken in: During WW1, when those poor souls were fighting in the trenches, a select number of crack riflemen were picked for sniper school. Once they learnt their skill and expertise, the best of the best were sent into No Mans Land to hide and pick off visible enemy. But, for the sniper sent out there, it had it's consequences. In No Mans Land you left yourself vulnerable, by you also being visible to the enemy, leaving yourself to be picked off by their snipers. One clever sniper who got pissed off with the General's continuously sending him out for this rotten job all the