SOLDIER magazine marks 80 years with exhibition at National Army Museum

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SOLDIER magazine marks 80 years with exhibition at National Army Museum

Next month marks the 80th anniversary of a military magazine that was only supposed to last a few years, and there’s an exhibition about it at the National Army Museum. The magazine, SOLDIER (yes, in capitals) was authorised by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as a morale-boosting magazine for British Army troops fighting in Europe during the Second World War. The first fortnightly edition of SOLDIER was printed in Brussels in March 1945 and lat…