Museums – Classic Military

London

Buffs, Royal East Kent Regiment Museum Collection, London

Tel: 020 7730 0717 Website www.national-army-museum.ac.uk

Firepower Royal Artillery Museum, London

Tel: 020 8855 7755 Website www.firepower.org.uk

Fusiliers London Volunteer Museum (The London Regiment), Balham

Tel: 0208 672 1168 Website www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/23661.aspx

The Fusilier Museum London, London

Tel: 0203 166 6912 Website www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org

Guards Museum, London

Tel: 020 7414 3428 Website www.theguardsmuseum.com

Honourable Artillery Company, London

Tel: 020 7382 1541 Website www.hac.org.uk

Household Cavalry Museum, London

Tel: 020 7930 3070 Website www.householdcavalrymuseum.co.uk

Imperial War Museum, London

Tel: 020 7416 5000 Website www.iwm.org.uk

Inns of Court and City Yeomanry Museum, London

Tel: 020 7405 8112 Website www.iccy.org.uk/museum.htm

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South of England

Adjutant General’s Corps Museum Collection, Winchester

Tel: 01962 877826

Aldershot Military Museum, Aldershot

Tel: 01252 314598 Website www.hants.gov.uk/museums/aldershot-museum

Army Museums Ogilby Trust, Salisbury

Tel: 01722 332188 Website www.armymuseums.org.uk

Museum of Army Chaplaincy, Andover

Tel: 01264 773144 Ext 4248 Website www.army.mod.uk/chaplains

Museum of Army Flying, Middle Wallop

Tel: 01264 784421 Website www.armyflying.com

Army Medical Services Museum, Aldershot

Tel: 01252 868612 Website www.ams-museum.org.uk

Berkshire Yeomanry Museum, Windsor

Tel: 01753 860600, email:andrewgfrench@hotmail.com

Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust Collection, Buckingham

Tel: 01280 823020 Website www.bmmt.co.uk

Brooklands Museum Weybridge, Surrey

Tel: 01932 857381 Website www.brooklandsmuseum.com/

Fort Nelson Royal Armouries

Tel: 01329 233734 Website www.royalarmouries.org

Gurkha Museum, Winchester

Tel: 01962 842832/828536 Website www.thegurkhamuseum.co.uk

HorsePower,The Museum of The King’s Royal Hussars in Winchester

Tel: 01962 828539 Website www.horsepowermuseum.co.uk

Infantry & Small Arms School Corps Weapons Collection, Warminster

Tel: 01985 222487 Website www.infantry-weapons.org

The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester

Tel: 01305 264066 Website www.keepmilitarymuseum.org

Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry Museum, Edenbridge

Tel: 01732 865224 Website www.ksymuseum.org.uk

Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment & Queen’s Regiment Museum, Dover

Tel: 01304 240121 Website www.army.mod.uk/pwrr

Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum Collection, Maidstone

Tel: 01622 602838 Website www.museum.maidstone.gov.uk/queensown/

Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars Museum Collection, Eastbourne

Tel: 01323 410300 Website www.eastbournemuseums.co.uk

The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum, Salisbury

Tel: 01722 419419 Website www.thewardrobe.org.uk

Royal Devon Yeomanry Museum Collection, Barnstaple

Tel: 01271 346747 Website www.devonmuseums.net/barnstaple

Royal Signals Museum, Blandford Forum

Tel: 01258 482248 Website www.royalsignalsmuseum.co.uk/

Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Collection, Swindon

Tel: 01793 523865 Website www.swindon.gov.uk/heritage-yeomanry

Redoubt Fortress Military Museum (Royal Sussex Regiment), Eastbourne

Tel: 01323 410300 Website www.eastbournemuseums.co.uk

REME Museum of Technology, Reading

Tel: 0118 976 3375 Website www.rememuseum.org.uk

Royal Engineers Museum, Library & Archive, Gillingham

Tel: 01634 822839 Website www.re-museum.co.uk/

Royal Logistic Corps Museum, Camberley

Tel: 01252 833371 Website www.rlcmuseum.co.uk

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Collection, Camberley

Tel: 01276 412489/2483 Website www.sandhurstcollection.org.uk/

Royal Army Physical Training Corps Museum, Aldershot

Tel: 01252 787157 Website www.army.mod.uk/raptc/6427.aspx

Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum, Winchester

Tel: 01962 828549 Website www.rgjmuseum.co.uk

Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum, Winchester

Tel: 01962 863658 Website www.serleshouse.co.uk

Royal Military Police Museum, Southwick, Near Fareham,

Tel: 023 9228 4372 Website www.army.mod.uk/agc/provost/13312.aspx

Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock

Tel: 01993 813832 Website www.sofo.org.uk

Solent Sky Museum, Southampton

Tel: 02380 635 830 Website www.solentskymuseum.org/

Somerset Military Museum, Taunton

Tel: 01823 255088 Website www.somerset.gov.uk/museums

Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, Gloucester

Tel: 01452 522682 Website www.glosters.org.uk

The Surrey Infantry Museum, Guildford

Tel: 01483 223419 Website www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk

Sussex & Surrey Yeomanry Museum Collection, Newhaven

Tel: 01273 517622 Website www.newhavenfort.org.uk

Tank Museum, Bovington

Tel: 01929 405096 Website www.tankmuseum.org

Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

Tel: 01243 790 090 Website www.tangmere-museum.org.uk

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Central England

Airborne Assault, Museum of the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces, Cambridge

Tel: 01223 839909 Website www.paradata.org.uk

Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment Museum Collection

Luton Tel: 01582 546722 /546725 Website www.wardownparkmuseum.com/

Cambridgeshire Regiment Collection, Cambridgeshire

Tel: 01223 835000

Essex Regiment Museum, Chelmsford

Tel: 01245 605701 Website www.chelmsford.gov.uk/museums

Essex Yeomanry Museum Collection, Chelmsford

Tel: 01245 605701 Website www.essex-yeomanry.org.uk

Hertfordshire Regiment Museum Collection, Hertford

Tel: 01992 582686 Website www.hertfordmuseum.org

Hertfordshire Yeomanry & Artillery Collection, Hitchin

Tel: 01462 434476 Website www.north-herts.gov.uk

Leicestershire Yeomanry Museum Collection, Loughborough

Tel: 01509 231667 Website www.loughborough-rollofhonour.com/page92.htm

Military Intelligence Museum, Shefford

Tel: 01462 752896 Website www.militaryintelligencemuseum.org/

Museum of The Mercian Regiment (WFR Collection), Nottingham

Tel: 0115 946 5415 Website www.wfrmuseum.org.uk

Northamptonshire Regiment and Northamptonshire Yeomanry Collections, Northampton

Tel: 01604 838111 Website www.northampton.gov.uk/museums

Queen’s Royal Lancers Museum, Perlethorpe

Tel: 01623 824222 Website www.qrlnymuseum.co.uk

Royal Anglian Regiment Museum, Cambridge

Tel: 01223 497298 Website www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk

Royal Leicestershire Regiment Museum, Leicester

Tel: 0116 225 4980 Website www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk

Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and Lincolnshire Yeomanry Collections, Lincoln

Tel: 01522 782040 Website www.lincolnshire.gov.uk

Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum, Norwich

Tel: 01603 493625 Website www.rnrm.org.uk

Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Museum, Carlton

Tel: 0115 9618722 Website www.sherwood-rangers.org

South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry Museum, Nottingham

Tel: 0115 9272251

Suffolk & Norfolk Yeomanry Collection, Holt

Tel: 01263 588210 Website www.muckleburgh.co.uk

Suffolk Regiment Museum, Bury St Edmunds

Tel:01284 752394 Website www.suffolkregimentmuseum.co.uk

9th/12th Royal Lancers and Derbyshire Yeomanry Museum, Derby

Tel: 01332 641913 Website www.derbymuseums.org/the-soldiers-story

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Midlands

Green Howards Regimental Museum, Richmond

Tel: 01748 826561 Website www.greenhowards.org.uk

Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum, Hereford

Tel: 01432 359917

King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum Collection, Doncaster

Tel: 01302 734293 Website www.doncaster.gov.uk/museums

Kohima Museum, York

Tel: 01904 665806 Website www.kohimamuseum.com

The Mercian Regiment Museum (Worcestershire), Worcester

Tel: 01905 721982 Website www.wfrmuseum.org.uk

Royal Armouries (Leeds)

Tel: 0113 220 1999 Website www.royalarmouries.org

Royal Dragoon Guards Museum – York Army Museum, York

Tel: 01904 642036 Website www.rdgmuseum.org.uk

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Royal Warwickshire) Museum, Warwick

Tel: 01926 491653 Website www.warwickfusiliers.co.uk

Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire Museum, York

Tel: 01904 461010 Website www.pwo-yorkshire.museum

Queen’s Own Yorkshire Yeomanry Museum, York

Tel: 01482.881974

Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Lichfield

Tel: 01543 434394/434395 Website www.staffordshireregimentmuseum.com/

Shropshire Regimental Museum, Shrewsbury

Tel: 01743 358516 or 262292 Website www.shropshireregimentalmuseum.co.uk.

Staffordshire Yeomanry Museum, Stafford

Tel: 01785 619131 Website www.staffordbc.gov.uk

The Queen’s Own Hussars Museum, Warwick

Tel: 01926 492035 Website www.qohmuseum.org.uk

Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum, Warwick

Tel: 01926 492212 Website www.warwickshire-yeomanry-museum.co.uk/

Worcestershire Yeomanry Museum Collection, Worcester

Tel: 01905 25371 Website www.worcestercitymuseum.org.uk

4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment Collection, Hull

Tel: 01482 616431

13th/18th Royal Hussars (QMO) and The Light Dragoons Museum, Barnsley

Tel: 01226 790270 Website www.lightdragoons.org.uk

Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding) Museum, Halifax

Tel: 01422 354823, Website www.dwr.org.uk,

York & Lancaster Regiment Museum, Rotherham

Tel: 01709 336633 Website www.rotherham.gov.uk

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North of England

Border Regiment & King’s Own Royal Border Regiment Museum, Carlisle

Tel: 01228 532774 Website www.kingsownbordermuseum.btik.com

Cheshire Military Museum, Chester

Tel: 01244 327617 Website www.cheshiremilitarymuseum.co.uk

The Fusilier Museum, Bury

Tel: 0161 763 8950 Website www.fusiliermuseum.com

King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster

Tel: 01524 555619/64637 Website www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com

King’s Regiment Museum Collection, Liverpool

Tel: 0151 478 4065 Website www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/visit/galleries/soldiers/

Museum of the King’s Royal Hussars in Lancashire, Preston

Tel: 01772 534075 Website www.lancashire.gov.uk

Lancashire Infantry Museum, Preston

Tel: 01772 260362 Website www.lancashireinfantrymuseum.org.uk

Liverpool Scottish Regimental Museum, Liverpool

Tel: 01925 766157 Website www.liverpoolscottish.org.uk

Manchester Regiment Museum, Ashton-under-Lyne

Tel: 0161 343 2878 Website www.tameside.gov.uk/museumsgalleries/mom

Museum of the Manx Regiment, Ballasalla

Tel: 01624 829294 Website www.maps.org.im/museum

101 (Northumbrian) Regiment RA (V) Museum, Gateshead

Tel: 0191 239 5237

Durham Light Infantry Museum, Durham City

Tel: 0191 3842214 Website www.durham.gov.uk/dli

The Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland, Alnwick

Tel: 01665 602152 Website www.northumberlandfusiliers.org.uk

The King’s Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum, Berwick-upon-Tweed

Tel: 01289 307426 Website www.kosb.co.uk/museum.htm

The Light Dragoons (15th/19th King’s Royal Hussars) Museum Collection, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Tel: 0191 232 6789 Website www.lightdragoons.org.uk

Northumberland Hussars Museum Collection, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Tel: 0191 239 6789

Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry Museum, Penrith

Tel: 017684 86450 Website www.dalemain.com

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Wales

Carmarthen Militia and Volunteers Collection, Carmarthen

Tel: 01267 228696 Website www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk

Castlemartin Yeomanry Collection, Tenby

Tel: 01834 842809

Firing Line, Cardiff

Tel: 029 2022 9367 Website www.cardiffcastlemuseum.org.uk

Montgomeryshire Yeomanry Museum Collection, Welshpool

Tel: 01938 554656

Pembroke Yeomanry Collection, Haverfordwest

Tel: 01437 731328,

Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) Museum Collection, Monmouth

Tel: 01600 772175 Website www.monmouthcastlemuseum.org.uk

Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum, Caernarfon

Tel: 01286 673362 Website www.rwfmuseum.org.uk

The Royal Welsh (Brecon) Museum, Brecon

Tel: 01874 613310 Website www.royalwelsh.org.uk

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Channel Islands

Channel Islands Military Museum

Tel: 01534 483205

Jersey Militia Museum Collection, St Helier

Tel: 01534 833135 Website www.jerseyheritagetrust.org

Jersey War Tunnels

Tel: 01534 860808 email info@jerseywartunnels.com

Royal Guernsey Light Infantry & Militia Museums, St Peter Port

Tel: 01481 721657 Website www.museum.guernsey.net

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Northern Ireland

The Inniskillings Museum, Enniskillen

Tel: 028 6632 3142 Website www.inniskillingsmuseum.com/

Royal Irish Fusiliers Regimental Museum, Armagh

Tel: 0283 752 2911 Website www.royal-irish.com

North Irish Horse, Belfast

Tel: 02892 260319

Royal Irish Regiment Museum Armagh

Tel: 028 37522911 Website www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/royalirish

Royal Ulster Rifles Museum, Belfast

Tel: 028 9023 2086 Website www.royal-irish.com

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Scotland

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum, Stirling

Tel: 01786 475165 Website www.argylls.co.uk

Ayrshire Yeomanry Museum, Ayr

Tel: 01292 445447

The Black Watch Castle & Museum, Perth

Tel: 01738 638 152 Website www.theblackwatch.co.uk

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Museum Collection, Hamilton

Tel: 01698 328232 Website www.cameronians.org

Fife and Forfar Yeomanry Collection, Cupar

Tel: 01334 656155

The Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen

Tel: 01224 311200 Website www.gordonhighlanders.com

The Highlanders’ Museum, Ardersier

Tel: 01667 460466 Website www.thehighlandersmuseum.com

National War Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Tel: 0131 225 7534 Website www.nms.ac.uk

Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum, Glasgow

Tel: 0141 332 5639 Website www.rhf.org.uk

Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum, Edinburgh

Tel: 0131 310 5100 Website www.scotsdgmuseum.com

Royal Scots Regimental Museum, Edinburgh

Tel: 0131 310 5016 Website www.theroyalscots.co.uk

London

Buffs, Royal East Kent Regiment Museum Collection, London

Firepower Royal Artillery Museum, London

Fusiliers London Volunteer Museum (The London Regiment), Balham

The Fusilier Museum London, London

Guards Museum, London

Honourable Artillery Company, London

Household Cavalry Museum, London

Imperial War Museum, London

Inns of Court and City Yeomanry Museum, London

London Irish Rifles Museum, London

London Scottish Regiment Museum, London

Middlesex Regiment Collection, London

The Middlesex Regiment (Territorial) Collection, Edgware

South of England

Adjutant General’s Corps Museum Collection, Winchester

Aldershot Military Museum, Aldershot

Army Museums Ogilby Trust, Salisbury

Museum of Army Chaplaincy, Andover

Museum of Army Flying, Middle Wallop

Army Medical Services Museum, Aldershot

Berkshire Yeomanry Museum, Windsor

Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust Collection, Buckingham

Brooklands Museum Weybridge, Surrey

Gurkha Museum, Winchester

HorsePower,The Museum of The King’s Royal Hussars in Winchester

Infantry & Small Arms School Corps Weapons Collection, Warminster

The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester

Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry Museum, Edenbridge

Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment & Queen’s Regiment Museum, Dover

Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum Collection, Maidstone

Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars Museum Collection, Eastbourne

The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum, Salisbury

Royal Devon Yeomanry Museum Collection, Barnstaple

Royal Signals Museum, Blandford Forum

Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Collection, Swindon

Redoubt Fortress Military Museum (Royal Sussex Regiment), Eastbourne

REME Museum of Technology, Reading

Royal Engineers Museum, Library & Archive, Gillingham

Royal Logistic Corps Museum, Camberley

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Collection, Camberley

Royal Army Physical Training Corps Museum, Aldershot

Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum, Winchester

Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum, Winchester

Royal Military Police Museum, Southwick, Near Fareham,

Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock

Solent Sky Museum, Southampton

Somerset Military Museum, Taunton

Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, Gloucester

The Surrey Infantry Museum, Guildford

Sussex & Surrey Yeomanry Museum Collection, Newhaven

Tank Museum, Bovington

Central England

Airborne Assault, Museum of the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces, Cambridge

Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment Museum Collection

Cambridgeshire Regiment Collection, Cambridgeshire

Essex Regiment Museum, Chelmsford

Essex Yeomanry Museum Collection, Chelmsford

Hertfordshire Regiment Museum Collection, Hertford

Hertfordshire Yeomanry & Artillery Collection, Hitchin

Leicestershire Yeomanry Museum Collection, Loughborough

Military Intelligence Museum, Shefford

Museum of The Mercian Regiment (WFR Collection), Nottingham

Northamptonshire Regiment and Northamptonshire Yeomanry Collections, Northampton

Queen’s Royal Lancers Museum, Perlethorpe

Royal Anglian Regiment Museum, Cambridge

Royal Leicestershire Regiment Museum, Leicester

Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and Lincolnshire Yeomanry Collections, Lincoln

Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum, Norwich

Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Museum, Carlton

South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry Museum, Nottingham

Suffolk & Norfolk Yeomanry Collection, Holt

Suffolk Regiment Museum, Bury St Edmunds

9th/12th Royal Lancers and Derbyshire Yeomanry Museum, Derby

Midlands

Green Howards Regimental Museum, Richmond

Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum, Hereford

King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum Collection, Doncaster

Kohima Museum, York

The Mercian Regiment Museum (Worcestershire), Worcester