MEMORIAL WAR MUSEUMS.
[To THE EDITOR OF TEE '" SPRETAIVel PGR,—.Plunierous suggestions are being made regarding the best way to perpetuate the memory -of those who have fallen in* the war. May I add yetenother proposal? In Loudon there is to be a large military museum, in which are to be collected all objects of interest associated in some way -with the war. Looking at the country and the population as a whole, it -will be a comparatively limited number who will ever be able to avail themselves of the opportunity of seeing this collection. Yet there is not a city, town, or village in the United Kingdom that has not contributed in some way to the contents of that museum, and the insmbass-ef which would.not, were it at all possible, like to see it. The War Office, it may rightly be presumed, will be inundated with war trophies and relics of every possible description—tanks, aeroplanes, ambulance wagons, armoured cars, and other military weapons of every con- ceivable description in the employment of our own forces, those of
our Allies, and, better still, those of our various enemies. Why should not 'the excess of this great superfluity-be distributed over the country ? Let every city, town, and village -have ite war museum. And, in addition to the -relics and trophies of war, let there be tablets on the walls with, engraved on them, the names of every man in the partidular district who had fought for his country. As a nucleus to all, let there be erected within the museum, in -whatever shape or form the locality itself -may decide, a memorial to those brave lads who fell fighting for the liberty of their -country. The fund which would be raised for this memorialwould 'serve also as a means to maintain the upkeep of the museum for all time to come. Thus .would be kept green in the memory of posterity what the-sons of each city, town, and village had done for -their respective localities by -winning for them the peace, prosperity, and freedom thatthey•were privileged to envoy.—I am,
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