David Gray's pictures of the week 5-5-2008

DAVID GRAY photography
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This week's picture subject is military memorials. It came to mind after last month's trip to Portsmouth, where such memorials to our belligerent past are particularly thick on the ground. Is there any other country whose armed forces have fought so widely and for so long ? I doubt it. What's interesting is that you don't have to be an apologist for the British Empire - and I am not - to be awed by the sheer range of these military exploits and the men (and recently women) who carried them out, in the process dying so often and so far from home. China, India, Egypt, South Africa and from Flanders fields to the Falklands - the list goes on and on. So impressive and yet also so very sad.

The tomb of General Charles Napier, "Conqueror of Sind", in Portsmouth in April 2008 (image 2756-178)

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