Who Do You Think You Are? WDYTYA? Live now dedicates new areas to military history, where Dan and Peter Snow will host a Battle Theatre exploring the Battle of Amiens and the Battle of Britain. Due to its immense popularity in 2007 the Museum has a bigger stand with more expert curators to help visitors trace their military ancestry.

The National Army Museum will host a new exhibition exploring the black and asian contribution to the First World War. It will open in October 2008 to mark Black History Month. The exhibition plans to showcase the life of the first black British Army combat officer Walter Tull, and it is hoped will feature unseen objects loaned by his family to illustrate Tull’s remarkable life and legacy.

Critically acclaimed exhibition Helmand: The Soldiers’ Story, open now at the National Army Museum, has been longlisted for the prestigious Art Fund award. Selected, along with nine others, from over 250 entries nationwide, Helmand tells the achievement and the story of the British troops who entered Afghanistan’s Taleban heartland, the Helmand province, in March 2006.

A national museum has launched an appeal campaign to prevent the overseas export of a portrait of General Wolfe, victor of the Battle of Quebec and a hero of the Seven Years War. London’s National Army Museum has just under six months to raise £300,000 to save General Wolfe for the nation.

A Victoria Cross awarded to the late Lieutenant Herbert Stephen Henderson has been donated to the National Army Museum.

A unique exhibition opens at the National Army Museum on 3 August. HELMAND: The Soldiers’ Story has been built by, written by and contributed to by soldiers of 16 Air Assault Brigade, to tell the story of their experiences fighting in Afghanistan’s troubled Helmand Province.

'H' Jones' VC will go on display at the National Army Museum in April as part of a new exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War. TASK FORCE FALKLANDS opens on the anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Islands on April 2.