Revamped IWM Collection Archives

The IWM has upgraded its website, and its collection archives have been upgraded quite a bit too:

http://iwmcollections.org.uk/collections/search

Type in ?Commando? and you get 3880 results!! Filter ?Subject Period? to ?Second World War? and it goes down to 1622.

You can now download reasonable quality images for free, instead of the old grainy thumbnails you used to get with the option to part with a large some of money to see it in greater resolution! There appears to be many more images than previously available online, some I?ve certainly not seen before.

Well worth a look

Paul

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Hi Paul

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. There are some excellent photos that have now been made freely available for use under the UK Government's new Open Licence. There are a few photos in our galleries posted in the early days which are not properly attributed and this has in the past led to some copyright issues/discussions. Over the next few months if I find identical photos within the IWM database that we also have (and which are not properly attributed on our site) I will replace them with the much higher resolution photos from the IWM and credit them appropriately. An example of the type of photo can be seen here. The photo we previously had was not in anyway as clear :

http://www.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/WW2/Commando+Training/Assault+Landing+Craft+Training_+April42.jpg.html

The majority of our photos are of the individuals who were the Commandos and as such are properly attributed from family etc. It is generally quite obvious which photos it will apply to. I will also post some additional ones when found where the Commandos are clearly identified, or there is a possibility in the future of someone recognising them. This will be an ongoing project running alongside the excellent photos and information we are always receiving from Veterans, family, and friends

This should keep you very busy for some time Pete!

Many thanks

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It certainly will. Still its good for keeping me busy in retirement being on a poor public sector pension :)

Many more very good interviews can be found by clicking on Paul's link above and below, then using the filters on the left. Search on Commando then click second world war and then under media click audio

http://iwmcollections.org.uk/collections/search