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Dealing With Disaster – New Exhibition!
Our new exhibition, Dealing with Disaster highlights the British Army’s role in natural disaster relief and delves into one of...
History Repeated: Aden in the Archives
The 1/4th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry were warned for active service on 8 January 1916 and...
Why we are here
I have been pondering the more poetic language used to describe the British Army. The Regiment is a ‘family’; the...
Cornwall’s Home Guard
Establishing the Home Guard On 14 May 1940, and only four days after Churchill had become Prime Minister, his Secretary...
A Testament to Friendship
At Bodmin Keep we have been entrusted to protect and care for thousands of artefacts that have held meaning to...
Victory in Europe Day
VE Day Rightly celebrates the end of a truly awful European war and those who celebrated in May 1945 knew...
April to early May: Pursuit through Germany and surrender
The opening entry in the War Diary for 5 DCLI – the Cornish battalion – for 1 April 1945 noted:...
March 1945 – Crossing The Rhine
Following the battles of the Reichwald, by 1 March 1945, the War Diary of the 5th Battalion of the Duke...
February 1945: The battles of the Reichwald
Between D Day on 6 June 1944 and VE Day on 8 May 1945 the Allied advance towards Germany saw...
5 DCLI January 1945: Gargling, Weasels, and Kangaroos
[i] The National Archive, WO171-5177, pp. 5-6. [ii] TNA, WO171-5177, p. 9. [iii] TNA, WO171-5177, p. 14. [iv] TNA, WO171-5177,...
Christmas 1944
In late December 1944, eighty years ago, the 5th Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (5th DCLI) had spent the...
University of Plymouth Internships
In Spring 2024, three students from the University of Plymouth History Department participated in paid internships at Bodmin Keep –...
Pilot Rescue
A Battalion War Diary can often throw up an intriguing snippet that often invites further investigation and perhaps pause for...