Friday, 18 April 2025

Royal Military Museum Brussels visit 16/04/2025

 For my youngest son Birthday, he asked me to visit with him the Royal Military Museum Brussels.

They do have a large collection of weapons and armor of the renaissance  period nd those pictures i posted on the https://marstonmoor54mm.blogspot.com/

Some more pictures.


First 3 on the Belgian volonteer corps, that fought in Mexico for Emperor Maximilian




Learned something new: seems there has been a Belgian military expedition to Portugal in 1832-1935:
https://balagan.info/belgian-corps-1832-35-in-portugals-liberal-wars


Hereunder some pics of the First World War collection




Inside of the Mark IV tank










The large collection of airplanes.  


World War 2
The only surviving Belgian Tank hunter of 1940 (T13).
Yes the gun is mounted backwards.  This because neutral Belgium didn't want it to look like an offensive weapon.

Uniform of a member of the Big Red One.
So many Americans have died helping to restore democracy in Europe. 
Hope they don't lose it themselves now.







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