Posted on November 13, 2018
A Soldier’s Life For Me…
Hugo White sits at his desk in the museum, clicking away at his typewriter, with his faithful companion Nessie at...
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Posted on November 13, 2018
A Fitting Tribute
Visualising the design By Lesley Anne Harris When we began discussing the First World War commemorative poppy exhibit, our first...
Posted on November 13, 2018
The Last Signal
Hostilities will cease at 11 hours. Everybody knows that the Armistice, ending The Great War, was signed on the 11th hour...
Posted on November 13, 2018
“Bright but cold”
The 11th November, as everyone knows, marks the end of the First World War, but it was also the culmination...
Posted on November 13, 2018
A Teenager’s Tribute
My Visit to The Front Line By Flower Sykes Recently I went on a week long school history trip to...
Posted on November 13, 2018
Where There’s Tea, There’s Hope
9th November 1989 – The Day The Wall Came Down In 1989 1LI (the 1st battalion of the Light Infantry)...
Posted on August 23, 2018
“The Old Contemptibles”
Battle of Mons 23rd August 1914 The 1st Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry was stationed at The...
Posted on August 7, 2018
The Cornwall Blitz, and the Bombing of Bodmin
August 7th marks a solemn date in our local history. It was the day WW2 came and made its everlasting...
Posted on August 1, 2018
The Minden Rose
August 1st marks Minden Day, which is a regimental anniversary celebrated by certain units of the British Army. Up to...
Posted on July 10, 2018
Vesting Day 1968 and a Party to Remember!
By Hugo White The old county regiment titles were officially dropped on Vesting Day; 10th July 1968. On that day...
Posted on May 8, 2018
Volunteer Profile | Trevor Jones
Trevor Jones of the 32nd Cornwall Regiment of Foot, interviewed by Sophie Hodge. Image from ‘Unseen Waterloo’ the Conflict revisited, by...
Posted on April 9, 2018
Gallery: Animals and the DCLI
If you missed the buzz, we recently had a very lovely (but uninvited!) feline visitor to the museum. We have...
Posted on April 9, 2018
Keeping the Light Infantry’s Heritage Alive
2018 sees the 50th anniversary of the Light Infantry (LI), one of the two Army Regiments represented in the museum’s...
Posted on April 4, 2018
Notes From the Archives: Special Order of the Day
By Martyn Horton, Light Infantry Archivist. Fifty years ago, the four-remaining county light infantry regiments amalgamated to form one regiment, the Light Infantry. While I was delving into the photographic archive I came across the special order of the day, written General Sir Geoffrey Musson, to commemorate the historic event.
Posted on January 17, 2018
Make A Hard Tack Biscuit
Object of The Month: January 2018 – Dietary Regulations / Hard Tack Biscuit The ‘Recovery’ Diet During the American Civil...
Posted on January 9, 2018
‘An Army Marches on its Stomach’ – Rations Through the Ages
By Verity Anthony, Visitor Experience and Collections Manager ‘An Army marches on its stomach.' Whoever actually said it first was right. Here we take look at military rations, and how they have changed over time.
Posted on January 8, 2018
Remembering Matthew O’Connor, DCLI
Remembering Matthew O’Connor, by his daughter, Polly Dymock. (Pictured above: Matthew O’Connor, far right) Matthew Miles O’Connor was born...
Posted on January 8, 2018
At The Heart of The Community
by Museum Director, Mary Godwin. One of the key aims of our museum is to be at the heart of the community. The barracks has played a huge part in the life of the town over the past 150 years but our building is now the only one remaining that the public can visit.