Posted on July 18, 2022
Recruiting Leaflet (August 1914)
This eye-catching leaflet, appealing for Cornishmen to join the Duke Of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, hangs as part of the First...
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Posted on July 18, 2022
The D Day Dodgers Commemorative Medal
The fighting around Monte Cassino was some of the bloodiest of the Second World War. Soldiers from Britain and the...
Posted on July 18, 2022
The Waterloo Shako
First Pattern Shako 1801-1812 In 1801 non-commissioned Officers and Privates stopped wearing the tricorn cocked hat which has been in...
Posted on May 19, 2022
An Officers Beaver Fur Bicorn hat
Today’s object of focus is a bicorn, also known as a cocked hat. These two cornered hats, hence the name...
Posted on May 9, 2022
The Master Military Tailor
This week I’m delving into a book of clothing pattern drafts compiled by Bombardier W R Richards from the Royal...
Posted on April 25, 2022
Mending War Torn Limbs
The high levels of injury caused to arms and legs, from shells, bullets, and frost bite during the First World...
Posted on April 25, 2022
Playing with food
This is a hard tack biscuit from World War one which has been fashioned into a photo frame. Similar hard...
Posted on April 25, 2022
The Egg Cup Carved in Ceylon from an African Tree
The Boer War The Boer War dates from 1899 – 1902 and was fought between the British Empire and two independent Boer states, the South...
Posted on April 12, 2022
Serjeant Grenfell’s Embroidered Stable Belt
A stable belt is a striped coloured belt made of webbing, worn by the armed forces. Every regiment and corps of the British...
Posted on March 21, 2022
Eyes Everywhere! – The Cornish Home Guard
During the Second World War and only 4 days after Churchill had become Prime Minister, his war secretary Anthony Eden...