USEFUL LINKS

 

Links to museums and websites that I have found useful and interesting.

 

PLEASE CHECK WITH THE RELEVANT MUSEUM BEFORE TRAVELLING! TO FIND OUT ABOUT: 

Opening times 

Ticket costs

Access / Entry arrangements especially if the museum is on an active Armed Forces base

Parking facilities

Facilities for disabled visitors, for families and children

Food and drink facilities

and anything else you may need during your visit.

 

 

Llst of Army Regimental Museums on wikipedia
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. To research casualty details or details of CWGC cemeteries.
National Memorial Arboretum, Croxall Road, Alrewas, Staffordshire DE13 7AR
RAF Museum London (Hendon), Grahame Park Way London, NW9 5LL SAT NAV: NW9 5QW
RAF Museum Midlands (RAF Cosford), Lysander Avenue, Cosford, TF11 8UP SAT NAV: WV7 3EU
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitor Centre, RAF Coningsby, Dogdyke Road, Coningsby, Lincs.., LN4 4SY.
The Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, East Kirkby Airfield Nr Spilsby Lincolnshire PE23 4DE
Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum, North Rauceby, Sleaford, Lincs,, NG34 8QR.
Newark [Notts & Lincs] Air Museum Ltd Drove Lane, Newark. Nottinghamshire NG24 2NY
The International Bomber Command Centre, Canwick Avenue, Lincoln, LN4 2HQ.
Jackson Dock, Maritime Avenue, Hartlepool, TS24 0XZ
National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
National Museum of the Royal Navy -HMS Caroline, Alexandra Dock, Queens Rd, Belfast, BT3 9DT.
Work is due to begin in February 2025 on a new museum for the Royal Marines after nearly a decade on the sidelines.
The Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Ilchester, BA22 8HT
The D-Day Story, Clarence Esplanade, Portsmouth, PO5 3NT
National Army Museum Royal Hospital Road London SW3 4HT
Museum of the Parachute Regiment & Airborne Forces, Imperial War Museum Building, IWM Duxford, CB22 4QR.
Lancashire Infantry Museum - Museum of The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), The South Lancashire Regiment (40th and 80th Regiments of Foot), The Queen's Lancashire Regiment, The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wale's Volunteers) and The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (47th and 81st Regiments of Foot), Fulwood Barracks, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 8AA. Access and Security. Please read - important visitor access and security information. Fulwood Barracks remains an active military establishment and operates necessary and appropriate security arrangements including control of access. This will not unduly impede your visit to the Museum but please note that ADULT VISITORS WILL BE ASKED TO PRODUCE POSITIVE PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION, SUCH AS A UK PHOTO-ID DRIVING LICENCE. On arrival at the Main Gate, please visit the Guardroom, where you will be issued with personal visitor passes for each member of your party and directed to the Museum. If arriving by car, please halt temporarily in one of the lay-bys in front of the Main Gate before visiting the Guardroom. Once issued with your passes, you will be directed to the Barracks' ample free-of-charge parking area.
The Museum of Lincolnshire Life, which houses the regimental collection, Burton Rd, Lincoln LN1 3LY.
Museum of the Staffordshire Regiment and its predecessors, Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Defence Medical Services Lichfield, WS14 9PY
Army Flying Museum, Middle Wallop, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 8FB. Includes the history and artefacts of the Glider Pilot Regiment.
The Green Howards Museum Trinity Church Square Richmond, North Yorkshire DL10 4QN
Air Force Museum of New Zealand, 45 Harvard Ave, Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand.
The Royal Lancers, The Sherwood Rangers, and the South Nottinghamshire Hussars. The Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum, Thoresby Hall, Thoresby Park, Nr. Ollerton, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG22 9EP,
The story of Gurkha service to the Crown since 1815, particularly the four Gurkha regiments that transferred to the British Army in 1944; The Royal Gurkha Rifles, The Queen's Gurkha Engineers, The Queen's Gurkha Signals, and the Queen's Own Gurkha Logistics Regiment. The Gurkha Museum, Peninsula Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, SO23 8TS.
The story of the East Anglian Regiments forming the Royal Anglian Regiment from 1964; 1st East Anglian Regt (Royal Norfolk & Suffolk); Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire & Northamptonshire; 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot); Royal Leicestershire Regt.. Part of the IWM Duxford Land Warfare Centre. The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum Duxford Airfield Duxford Cambridge CB22 4QR.
Museum including the collections of the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire, and the Royal Dragoon Guards, and the descendant regiment of the Prince of Wale's Own, The Royal Yorkshire Regiment. The York Army Museum is in the centre of York on Tower Street, opposite Clifford’s Tower and next to the Hilton Hotel. York Army Museum, Tower Street Drill Hall, 3 Tower Street, York, YO1 9SB.
The museum tells the story of the Regiment from its raising in 1758 to its absorption into the Light Infantry in 1968, with particular emphasis on the two world wars.. The Durham Light Infantry Museum, The Story, Mount Oswald, South Road, Durham DH1 3TQ.
Part of the Suffolk & Cambridgeshire Regiments' Museum, the museum details the history of the Suffolk Regiment from 1685 until amalgamation with the Royal Norfolk Regt in1959. The Keep, Gibraltar Barracks, Out Risbygate, Newmarket Road, Bury Saint Edmunds IP33 3RN.
Royal Signals Museum, Blandford Camp, Dorset DT11 8BJ. ACCESS INFORMATION: The camp is not easily accessed by public transport. The Museum is inside a working Army Camp. All adults must book in. Adults 16+ must bring a valid personal PHOTO ID to be permitted entry (Eg driving license or passport or MOD90 for serving personnel). You will be issued with a Visitor pass and if travelling by car, a vehicle pass. There is allocated parking for Museum Visitors. If on arrival the bays are full just let staff know and they will find you a space.
Keogh Barracks, Mytchett Place Road. Mytchett. Surrey, GU12 5RQ which is easily accessible by car from the M3.. The museum is located at Keogh Barracks, an active Army base, please bring some photographic identification with you to obtain a pass at the main gate of the barracks. The barracks are at the lower end of Mytchett Place Road, to the south of Potter’s Restaurant and the Basingstoke Canal Centre.
The Rifleman's Museum, Peninsula Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, SO23 8TS. One of 6 regimental museums at the location.
CURRENTLY CLOSED FOR REFURBISHMENT, PLEASE CHECK WEBSITE FOR UPDATES. The museum of the infantry regiments of Berkshire and Wiltshire. The Wardrobe, 58 The Close, Salisbury, SP1 2EX
CURRENTLY CLOSED AS PART OF THE LIVING BARRACKS PROJECT AND DUE TO RE-OPEN LATE 2026, PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR FURTHER DETAILS. The Barracks, The Parade, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1DG
A beautiful CWGC Memorial commemorating 20,263 members of the Commonwealth Air Forces who lost their lives whilst flying from the UK & NW Europe during WW2, and who have no known grave. The Memorial overlooks the River Thames on Cooper's Hill at Englefield Green, between Windsor and Egham on the A308, 4 miles from Windsor. Address: Cooper's Hill Lane, Englefield Green, Egham TW20 0LB