Gloucester - Regiments of Gloucetser Museum - postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Regiments of Gloucester Museum, Gloucester
• Publisher:  Dennis (G026037L)
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  2nd class blue stamp
• Postmark(s):  illeg date & place
• Sent to:  Hayes, Middlesex
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum is located within the historic docks in the city of Gloucester. It was originally opened by HRH The Duke of Gloucester in 1980 although significantly remodeled in the late '80s and reopened in 1990. The museum now tells the story of two famous county regiments, The Gloucestershire Regiment (The Glorious Glosters), including their antecedents The 28th Regiment of Foot/61st Regiment of Foot and The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars.

Traditionally both regiments recruited from Gloucestershire and the surrounding areas including Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, Tewkesbury, The Forest of Dean and from the city of Bristol.

The items on display have been accumulated over the last 300 years and exhibits include life size dioramas, sound effects, archive film and many fixed displays reflecting campaigns in the Napoleonic Wars, The First Anglo-Sikh War, Second Anglo-Sikh War, The Indian Mutiny, The Boer War, The First World War, The Second World War, The Korean War (including The Battle of the Imjin River), and peace keeping duties in Cyprus, Bosnia, Kosovo and Northern Ireland. Since amalgamation in 1994, first into the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and then into The Rifles, the museum has maintained the currency of its exhibits and current campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan are also represented.

Three Victoria Crosses awarded to soldiers of the Regiment are held by the Museum. These are to Surgeon Herbert Taylor Reade (1857), Col. Daniel Burges (1918), and Col. James Carne (1951).

The library and archives of the Gloucestershire Regiment are also housed in the same building and may be viewed by prior appointment.

The museum also has its own website. This contains on-line databases with details of approximately 10,000 soldiers from the 18th and 19th centuries and a World War I database containing details of over 43,000 individuals. There is also a Collections database of 12,000 artefacts with images and descriptions also viewable on-line.

The museum continues to receive new exhibits and the most recent significant acquisition is a service revolver collected from Gloster Hill, where the Glosters made their last stand on 25 April 1951 at the culmination of the Battle of the Imjin River.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=gloucestershire

period=1945 - present

postage condition=posted