The Castle and Regimental Museum, Monmouth, is a small volunteer-run museum which tells the story of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia). The museum displays a wide range of artefacts relating to the Regiment, which can trace its origins back to the militia of the sixteenth century. It also holds the records of the Regiment, [...]
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The new Mercian Regiment
Posted in In the news, Memorials from the archive, tagged regiments, WW1 on 17 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Formation Parade of The Mercian Regiment took place on 1 September. The new regiment is the result of the merger of The Cheshire Regiment, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment and The Staffordshire Regiment. These regiments can trace their origins to the late seventeenth or eighteenth centuries and boast distinguished histories, with battle honours [...]
Royal Anglian Afghanistan Memorial Fund
Posted in In the news, tagged Iraq, regiments on 14 September, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment has set up a fund to raise money for a permanent memorial to members of the regiment killed while serving in Afghanistan and to provide assistance to severely injured soldiers and their families. The battalion has over 600 soldiers deployed in the northern sector of Helmand province, where some of [...]
