“…Scholars have explored the ways militarism might be experienced, felt or engaged with in childhood, such as in the school curricula, museums, toys, films and video games (Carter, Kirby and Woodyer, 2016; Doucet, 2005; Gor, 2003; Hörschelmann, 2016; MacDonald, 2008; Power, 2007; Reagan, 1994; Shaw, 2010) as well as the relationship between militarism, childhood and recruitment to the armed forces (Rech, 2014, 2016; Wells, 2014). However, while debates about war remembrance and the spaces they occupy, the performances they invoke, and the people they involve are central to understanding processes of militarisation, the involvement of children and young people in these commemorative practices, and their responses to them, has received less attention (Benwell and Hopkins, 2016). This article seeks to address the dearth in the literature by capturing children as acting subjects in this social space and, by extension, argue that children, young people, the figure or imaginary of the child, and varied youthful engagements are inherent to contemporary discourses and practices of remembrance, not simply incidental.…”