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Blog

Posted on April 9, 2018

Gallery: Animals and the DCLI

If you missed the buzz, we recently had a very lovely (but uninvited!) feline visitor to the museum. We have...

Northern Ireland - The Light Infantry collection at Cornwall's Regimental Museum

Posted on April 9, 2018

Keeping the Light Infantry’s Heritage Alive

2018 sees the 50th anniversary of the Light Infantry (LI), one of the two Army Regiments represented in the museum’s...

Posted on April 4, 2018

Notes From the Archives: Special Order of the Day

By Martyn Horton, Light Infantry Archivist. Fifty years ago, the four-remaining county light infantry regiments amalgamated to form one regiment, the Light Infantry. While I was delving into the photographic archive I came across the special order of the day, written General Sir Geoffrey Musson, to commemorate the historic event.

Posted on January 17, 2018

Make A Hard Tack Biscuit

Object of The Month: January 2018 – Dietary Regulations / Hard Tack Biscuit The ‘Recovery’ Diet During the American Civil...

Posted on January 9, 2018

‘An Army Marches on its Stomach’ – Rations Through the Ages

By Verity Anthony, Visitor Experience and Collections Manager ‘An Army marches on its stomach.' Whoever actually said it first was right. Here we take look at military rations, and how they have changed over time.

Matthew O'Connor, Duke of Cornwall's Light infantry during WW2. Far right

Posted on January 8, 2018

Remembering Matthew O’Connor, DCLI

Remembering Matthew O’Connor, by his daughter, Polly Dymock. (Pictured above: Matthew O’Connor, far right) Matthew Miles O’Connor was born...

Cornwall's Regimental Museum inside The Keep behind new build houses on the old Parade Ground - 2018

Posted on January 8, 2018

At The Heart of The Community

by Museum Director, Mary Godwin. One of the key aims of our museum is to be at the heart of the community. The barracks has played a huge part in the life of the town over the past 150 years but our building is now the only one remaining that the public can visit.