Locations visited by Alan Cumming
La Bassée

France

The French town where Thomas Darling won his Military Medal is where Alan meets historian David French and sees where his grandfather fought.

Locations visited by Alan Cumming
National Archives of Malaysia

Jalan Duta
Kuala Lumpar
50568

(+60) 3 62 01 06 88

www.arkib.gov.my

It's in the National Archives of Malaysia that Alan comes face to face with the reality of his grandfather's death when he sees official papers. To learn more about the archives, see here: http://www.tanap.net/content/archives/archives.cfm?ArticleID=208

Locations visited by Alan Cumming
The Imperial War Museum

Lambeth Road
London
SE1 6HZ

020 7416 5000

www.iwm.org.uk

The Imperial War Museum's archives offers a wealth of material to help you find out more about an ancestor's experiences of military service or life on the home front during war time. It's here that Alan meets Professor Edgar Jones, a historian and expert in military psychiatry, to learn how Thomas Darling's wartime experiences might have affected him.

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