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March of Francis Marquess of Hastings, Govr. Genl. of India Commander in Chief, 1814-15. Oil on canvas, attributed to Col Charles 'Carlo' Joseph Doyle (1787-1848), 87th Royal Irish Regiment, Military Secretary to Lord Hastings, 1815 (c); the panoramic painting reads from right to left and depicts two days during tour of inspection of Bengal by Hastings the Governor General and his party, on 23 and 24 December 1814, near Hardwar; gilt wood frame; separate key in pen and ink on vellum. | Oil Paintings | 1954-12-21-1 |
Sir Briggs, horse of Lord Tredegar, 17th Lancers, ridden at Balaclava, 1854, in camp in the Crimea, 1854. Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left 'A F De Prades/ 1856', by Alfred Frank de Prades (fl 1844-1883), 1856; full-length, in profile to left, standing by a tent with his groom; in gilt wood frame. | Oil Paintings | 1961-08-7 |
A Welcome Arrival, 1855 (c). Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right 'J D Luard 1857', by John Dalbiac Luard (1830-1860), 1857, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1857 No. 133; three men in inside a hut unpacking goods sent from home, including cold weather clothing and a tea-chest full of groceries; the central figure is thought to be Capt Luard, Deputy Assistant Commissary William Gair is on the left and the third figure (seated right) may be a self-portrait; gilt wood frame. | Oil Paintings | 1958-08-18 |
The Battle of the Alma, 20 September 1854. Oil on canvas, by E Walker, 1854; the 7th Royal Fusiliers and the Coldstream Guards attack Russian-held heights; in gilt wood frame. | Oil Paintings | 1962-07-1 |
The Relief of the Light Brigade, 25th October 1854. Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left 'R Caton Woodville/ 1897', by Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927), 1897; the Light Brigade engaging Russian gunners and cavalry at the Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War (1854-1856). | Oil Paintings | 1989-01-1 |
The Battle of Ulundi, Zulu War, 4 July 1879. Oil on canvas, signed lower left 'A Yvon', by Adolphe Yvon (1817-1893), 1880 (c); panora of the battlefield at a late stage of the battle viewed from the centre of the British position; in wood frame. | Oil Paintings | 1965-09-46 |
The Storming and Capture of the North Fort, Peiho, on the 21st of August, 1860, 2nd China War (1857-1860), 1860. Oil on canvas, by Charles Stewart, 2nd Viscount Hardinge (1822-1894), 1865 (c), exhibited at the Royal Academy 1865, No. 185; soldiers of 44th (East Essex) and 67th (South Hampshire) Regiments breaching the walls of the North Fort. | Oil Paintings | 1967-07-36 |
Ross Lewis Mangles (1833-1905), Bengal Civil Service, winning the VC saving a wounded soldier of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment during the Indian Mutiny, 1857. Oil on canvas, by Louis William Desanges (b 1822, fl 1846-87), painted between 1859-62; full-length, carrying the soldier on his back. One of a series of paintings depicting VC subjects executed between 1859 and 1862 and displayed at the Crystal Palace during the 1860s and 1870s. | Oil Paintings | 1958-12-47 |
Major Duncan Montgomerie (1789-1878), 7th Madras Light Cavalry, 1840 (c). Oil on canvas, artist unknown, 1840 (c); half-length, in French grey jacket with yellow facings and silver lace; gilt wood frame. | Oil Paintings | 1956-02-623 |
Major George Cunningham or Cuninghame (1783-1838), 7th Bengal Native Infantry, Commanding 2nd Corps Rohilla Cavalry, 1820 (c). Oil on canvas, signed lower right 'Howe pinxit', by James Howe (1780-1836), 1820 (c); full-length; leaning on horse's saddle, wearing red jacket with dark blue facings and silver lace; gilt wood frame. | Oil Paintings | 1956-02-839 |
Major Thomas Edmund Campbell, 7th (The Queen's Own) Hussars, 1838. Oil on canvas by unknown artist 1838 (c). Full-length portrait of subject standing, facing forwards, his tired horse behind; curved top and gilt wood frame. | Oil Paintings | 1956-02-846 |
Colonel (later Major-General) Philip McPherson CB, 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot, 1855. Oil on canvas, signed and dated in pencil on the stretcher 'D. Cunliffe, Portsmouth 1855', by Daniel Cunliffe (1801-1871), 1855. Full-length portrait in uniform, wearing Scinde Campaign Medal, Military General Service Medal, CB and Crimea Medal, hand resting on sword. | Oil Paintings | 1991-11-31 |
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Adolphus Oughton, (17190-1780), 37th Regiment of Foot, 1753 (c). Oil on canvas, by George Knapton (1698-1778), 1753 (c); half-length, in uniform, wearing the Gold Medal of the Cumberland Society and holding a manuscript copy of the Society's Proceedings and a pen. | Oil Paintings | 1989-03-44 |
Sergeant-Major John Wing, 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment, 1848 (c). Oil on canvas by unknown artist 1848 (c). Three-quarter-length portrait, wearing orders and decorations, leaning against a column, a curtain with Chinese characters behind; gilt wood frame. to left, with sword in left hand and right hand leaning on a table, on which are his shako and stick. | Oil Paintings | 1989-03-79 |
Unidentified officer, 7th (or The Queen's Own) Regiment of Light Dragoons, 1793. Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left 'Richard Arnold Pinxt 1793', by Richard Arnold (fl 1788-1791), 1793; full-length, holding one rein of his horse; in gilt wood frame. | Oil Paintings | 1958-07-20 |
Lieutenant General Henry William Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge and Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854), 1815 (c). Oil on canvas, by Peter Edward Stroehling (1768-1826), 1826 (c), a reduced copy by the artist of his large canvas, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1826; full-length, equestrian portrait in the uniform of a General Officer of Hussars; gilt frame. | Oil Paintings | 1960-03-57 |
Lt-Col Edward Maxwell (later Maxwell Browne) (1721-1803), 21st Regiment of Foot (Royal North British Fusiliers), 1758 (c). Oil on canvas by an unknown artist 1758 (c); gilt wood frame. | Oil Paintings | 1969-02-7 |
Captain F Farquharson of Eastbury Dorset: 7th Hussars, 1836. Oil on canvas by Edmund Thomas Parris (1793-1873)1836, signed lower left. Half-length portrait, facing a quarter to left, with pelisse over shoulder and helmet under right arm. Inscription top left as title. | Oil Paintings | 1964-11-61 |
An unidentified officer, said to be Cornet Peter Malet, 7th Dragoons, 1718. Oil on canvas by unknown artist 1718 (c); half-length in a 'military' red coat over buff waistcoat, a scarlet sash over his right shoulder. | Oil Paintings | 1966-11-21 |
Captain James Gorry, 87th Regiment of Foot, or Highland Volunteers, 1760. Oil on canvas by unknown artist, 1760; half-length, in uniform, his right hand on sword hilt. | Oil Paintings | 1962-06-13 |
The Citadel, Quebec, 1870. Oil on canvas, inscribed lower right 'MAUD DEVLIN/ after/ J.S.HALLAM', by Maud Devlin after Joseph Sydney Hallam (1898-1953), 1930 (c). Presented to the Middlesex Regiment by the Royal Rifles of Canada. From the Middlesex Regiment Museum Collection. | Oil Paintings | 1994-01-1-1 |
Colonel George William Mignon, 7th (Bombay) Native Infantry, 1800 (c). Oil on paper on wood by unknown artist, 1800 (c). Oval, head and shoulders portrait in red jacket with yellow facings and silver lace. | Oil Paintings | 1964-05-74 |
Major (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Sir John Scott Lillie (1790-1868), 7th Cacadores, Portuguese Army, 1820 (c). Oil on canvas, artist unknown, 1820 (c), with later additions, post -1848. Three-quarter-length portrait, wearing brown jacket with black facings and black lace, and decorations, and with hat beside him on the table. | Oil Paintings | 1981-08-64 |
The 10th (or the Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons arriving in camp, Brighton, 1803 (c). Oil on canvas, attributed to A E Eglington, 1803 (c); troopers in stable dress unloading wagons, watched by their officers and officers of 17th Light Dragoons, 15th Light Dragoons and 9th Light Dragoons. | Oil Paintings | 1988-10-73 |
48 photographs relating to the Burma Campaign, 1941-1945; includes photographs of the capture of 'Scraggy' during the Imphal-Kohima battle 1944; ammunition supply on the Tamu Road; RAF aiding Gurkhas during attack on a hill near Palel 1944, Imphal market; 7th Light Cavalry armour; ambulance jeep; 23rd Division on parade, India, Sir Claude Auchinleck; Seramban victory parade; 23rd Division Reunion; Dutch East Indies. | Photographs | 1998-01-154 |
Collection of 70 watercolours by P W Reynolds, 1900 (c). Single figure uniform studies. | Drawings and Watercolours | 1998-01-168 |
Papers of Emily May Robinson, Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1939-1943 (c): notice to join ATS; list; instructions as to procedures of calling up ATS; certificate of relegation to the unemployment list; testimonial; release book; training papers; order; two telegrams; six letters; two invitation cards; greetings card; leaflet; message; War Office note; Christmas card; soldiers service and pay book; two press cuttings; unit historical record; four photographs. | Archives | 1998-02-127 |
Collection of sealed pattern valise numerals and letters of Cavalry Regiments, 1858; contained in a leather-bound folder. | Badges | 1998-02-162 |
Correspondence with reference to Lt Oliver Longcroft Downes, 7th Bombay Lancers; only son of Commissary General Downes, he was shot by a sepoy at Fort Sandeman, 29 Oct 1896. | Archives | 1998-02-199 |
Memoir of Vincent Harold Sykes, joined the 7th Bn Middlesex Regiment in 1908 and saw service on the Western Front, 1915; commissioned into the Sherwood Foresters, returning to service in Belgium, died 1976; compiled by his son Roy K Sykes, 1985. | Archives | 1998-02-216 |
Two reels of cine film: 3rd Indian Cavalry 1938-1939; cine film taken by J P N Graham; video copies available (VHS and U-Matic). | Film and Videos | 1980-09-1 |
The American Revolution Comes to England. Video record of re-enactment at Audley End, Summer 1987, featuring American re-enactment group and the Napoleonic Association. Produced by English Heritage and Prospect and Company Limited. | Film and Videos | 1989-11-14 |
Notebook with notes on engine operation and maintenance; kept by Tpr F W Edgington 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards and dated 19 May 1941. | Archives | 1998-04-15 |
Cap badge, Royal Dragoon Guards, 1992. | Badges | 1998-04-47 |
Manuscript letter to Ensign Harvest, 97th Regiment, on regimental administration in Corfu, 1844. | Archives | 1998-05-51 |
Pte John McDermond VC (1832-1868), 47th (The Lancashire) Regiment of Foot, winning the VC by saving Col Haly, his Commanding Officer, at Inkerman, on 5 November 1854. Oil on paper, mounted on cardboard, by Louis William Desanges (b 1822, fl 1846-87), 1860 (c). One of a series of paintings depicting VC subjects executed between 1859 and 1862 and displayed at the Crystal Palace during the 1860s and 1870s. | Oil Paintings | 1958-12-40 |
Album of paintings and sketches (with some paper ephemera) of Col (later Gen Sir) The Hon George Cadogan (1814-1880), Grenadier Guards; also known as 'Cadogan's Crimea', 1854-1856. | Drawings and Watercolours | 1998-06-128 |
7TH HUSSARS, 1824 (c). Coloured lithograph after D Alexander, published by James Del Vecchio, 4 Haymarket, London and Dublin, Dec 1824; mounted soldier in uniform turned three-quarters away. | Prints | 1998-06-54 |
A Pattern Adjutant, or the 77th edition of Dandyism, Adjt Molyneux 77th Regiment, 1815 (c). Coloured etching, published 1815 (c); standing with his back to the spectator, in a tight waisted blue coat looking at Sketches of Galway etc. | Prints | 1998-06-88 |
A Hero of Corunna, 1812 (c). Coloured etching published by McCleary, 32 Nassau Street, 1812 (c); thought to be Capt William Verner, 7th Hussars, 1812 (c); full-length caricature portrait in hussar uniform. | Prints | 1998-06-91 |
VHS video cassette: The First Few Days; an account of the part played by 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in the Normandy Landings, 6 Jun 1944, and of the pilgrimage to dedicate the Regimental Memorial at Creully, 1992. | Film and Videos | 1993-01-139 |
British infantry vehicles advancing, Iraq, 1991. Oil on board, signed and dated lower left, 'J A Wade 1992', by Captain Jonathan Wade (b 1960), Royal Highland Fusiliers, 1992. Wade was attached to HQ 7th Armoured Brigade during the Gulf War, 1992. Warriors (Combat vehicle, personnel, tracked 30 mm gun Warrior, FV510 section vehicle) of the 1st Staffords in the seemingly-vast and empty desert. | Oil Paintings | 1997-07-10 |
Key to the portraits of General Eliott and his officers in the painting of the Siege of Gibraltar, 14 September 1782. Oil on canvas by George Carter (1737-1794), 1784; also pen and ink sketch by unknown artist, nd; key to the portraits of Gen Eliott and his officers in the painting of the Siege of Gibraltar, 14 Sep 1782; associated with the Siege of Gibraltar, American War of Independence, Gibraltar (1779-1783) 1779-1783. | Oil Paintings | 1996-07-108 |
Paget .66 in flintlock cavalry carbine, 1808 (c). | Firearms | 1974-03-128 |
The Honourable William Blakeney Esq, 1760 (c). Line engraving, published 1760 (c); half-length portrait against fortified landscape background and warships. | Prints | 1998-08-20 |
Wine ewer or claret jug, 7th Bombay Native Infantry, 1889-90 from the Mess Plate of the 2nd Punjab Regiment; silver by James Dixon & Sons, hallmarked Sheffield, 1889-90; inscription relating to The Knowles Competition Prize. | Silver | 1997-07-11 |
Ram's horn snuff mull, 27th Madras Native Infantry, 1857, from the Mess Plate of the 2nd Punjab Regiment; Indian silver, no hallmarks, 1857; inscribed; double twist, lid set with thistles and cairngorm; 3 chains. | Silver | 1997-07-12 |
Snuff box nd; silver by 'G U', hallmarked Birmingham, 1874-1875; basket-weave pattern all over, central lozenge on top with regimental crest and battle honour, gilt interior, border of repoussé work has become detached from the top, one of the attaching pins being broken; with badge of 94th Regiment of Foot. | Silver | 1951-09-31 |
Plan of Bellisle. Hand drawn and coloured plan of fortifications from Journal of the Siege of Belle Isle 1761 by Lt Bernard Holbrooke of the 97th Foot. Plan from above of geometric fortifications. Key upper right. | Archives | 1998-09-22 |
Ford/Willys 1/4 ton 4x4 jeep. Army registration: 48 YH 73. This jeep was manufactured under contract number SM2275. It carried a wartime registration number M5537536. | Vehicles | 1998-09-42 |
Handkerchief which belonged to Lt Gen Sir William Inglis, 1810 (c); cotton muslin and lace. | Equipment, uniform | 1996-02-206 |
Commemorative plaque in memory of all ranks of the 4th Punjab Infantry, later the 57th Wilde's Rifles Frontier Force and then 4/13th Frontier Force Rifles, who gave their lives, 1849-1947, including listed officers who were killed or died on service up to the commencement of World War One; formerly installed in the Parish Church of St Luke's, Chelsea from 1951 until its removal to the National Army Museum; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial. | Crafts | 1998-10-15 |
Collection of one hundred and sixty one official photographs from the Middle and Far East, World War Two; collected by Maj Gen (later Lt Gen) Sir Frank Walter Messervy. | Photographs | 1974-09-79 |
Two commemorative plaques in memory of Capt Percy d'Aguilar Banks, Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides Frontier Force, killed near Ypres 26 Apr 1915, leading his men while attached to 57th Wilde's Rifles; one erected by Officers of the Guides, the other from the mother of Capt Banks; formerly installed in the Parish Church of St Luke's, Chelsea from 1951 until its removal to the National Army Museum; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial. | Crafts | 1998-10-38 |
Commemorative plaque in memory of the listed officers of Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force), killed in World War One, 1914-1919; formerly installed in the Parish Church of St Luke's, Chelsea from 1951 until its removal to the National Army Museum; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial. | Crafts | 1998-10-69 |
Papers of Pte Henry Holden, 7th and 10th Hussars, 1886-1902: account book; 2 character certificates; marriage certificate; letter; discharge certificate; record of service. | Archives | 1998-10-139 |
Commemorative plaque in memory of officers of the Punjab Frontier Force who died on the Frontier; formerly installed in the Parish Church of St Luke's, Chelsea from 1951 until its removal to the National Army Museum; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial. | Crafts | 1998-10-101 |
Commemorative plaque in memory of Capt James David Stirling, DSO, 57th Wilde's Rifles Frontier Force, killed in action against Mahsud raiders at Hayar Khan Kili, Bannu District on 11 Mar 1910; formerly installed in the Parish Church of St Luke's, Chelsea from 1951 until its removal to the National Army Museum; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial. | Crafts | 1998-10-111 |
Memorial plaque in memory of officers of, or attached to, the Punjab Frontier Force who lost their lives, 1914-1918; formerly installed in the Parish Church of St Luke's, Chelsea from 1951 until its removal to the National Army Museum; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial. | Crafts | 1998-10-106 |
Photocopied typescript account of the Henderson family, 1742-1998. | Archives | 1998-10-265 |
Photocopies from 'Harrison's Derby and Nottingham Journal', of 14 and 21 Oct 1779; reports on the services and casualties of the 17th Regiment of Foot in the action at Stoney Point, American War of Independence; with a copy of 'The Chelsea Pensioner's Story', on the capture of St Sebastian, 1813, from an unidentified late nineteenth, early twentieth century periodical. | Archives | 1998-10-287 |
Items from the papers of M W Dennison, including: Airborne Forces Day Cover Jul 1998; order of Tercentenary Service Royal Irish Rangers, and Commemorative Cover Jun 1989; letter from Maj Gen R N Wheeler on the formation of the Royal Irish Regiment, Jun 1992. | Archives | 1998-10-349 |
Light Cavalry Officer's Dress sword, 7th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons, 1792 (c); blade is curved, flat backed, spear pointed wand fullered; gilt brass knucklebow guard; wooden grip covered in leather and encased in gilt brass; scabbard in black leather, with elaborate gilt brass mounts. | Edged Weapons | 1994-06-218 |
Flag of 17th Dogra Regiment flown by Battalions of the 17th Dogra Regiment annually at Indian Army Association Tea Party at Hurlingham, 1990 (c). | Flags and Colours | 1997-11-115 |
17th Lancers officer's full dress sword, pattern 1822; blade is curved, pipe backed, spear pointed and double edged, with engraved decoration; gilt brass cross-guard; gilt brass hilt mounts; ivory grip; scabbard in blue velvet, with gilt brass mounts. | Edged Weapons | 1959-11-2 |
Sergeants' Spadroon, Royal Fusiliers (7th Foot); brass alloy knucklebow guard with the backpiece of the hilt marked with the Regiment's name. | Edged Weapons | 1989-05-76 |
White M5 half track command vehicle. | Vehicles | 1994-11-8 |
Pattern 1796 Light Cavalry officer's sword, 7th Queen's Own Light Dragoon's; curved blade with a single broad fuller and engraved decoration, including the Regiment's name and the maker's name, Woolley and Company; steel stirrup guard; wooden grip covered in leather and bound with twisted wire; steel scabbard. | Edged Weapons | 1963-10-135 |
Levée sword, 17th Lancers, 1830-1850 (c); engraved with regiment and maker's name, Moore. | Edged Weapons | 1963-10-130-1 |
Sword, heirloom of the Swanston family; blade is curved and spear pointed; nickel or silver plated, pierced bowl guard in a 'honeysuckle' pattern; carved wooden grip covered in black fish skin and bound with three twisted silver wires; leather scabbard with a steel fitting which are inscribed with details from the service lives of Lt W O Swanston, Lt C Swanston and Capt G O Swanston. | Edged Weapons | 1962-06-4 |
Scarf, knitted; Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1943 (c); body has various shoulder titles, formation badges, medal ribbons sewn on; one badge loose - Robin Hood printed on pale green square, North Midland District (Northern Command). | Uniforms | 1994-04-380 |
Pattern 1912, Cavalry Officer's sword; blade has engraved decoration, including the owner's name, possible makers names', S.J. Pillin and W W White, the regimental device of the 17th Lancers and the title, Royal Canadian Horse; normal pattern hilt; carried by Lt Col Harold Souther Stewart, 17th Lancers. | Edged Weapons | 1959-10-155 |
Cavalry officer's regimental pattern sword and scabbard; owned by Harold Souther Stewart, 17th Cavalry. | Edged Weapons | 1959-10-154 |
Pattern 1834, Rifle Regiment Officer's sword, 27th Punjabi Rifles; straight blade of dumbbell section, with engraved decoration, including the owner's on monogram and the maker's name, Guthrie & Valentine; plated steel guard; leather strap and acorn; leather scabbard with a leather chape; associated with Capt C.R.S. Pitman. | Edged Weapons | 1959-09-216 |
Pattern 1896 Cavalry Officer's sword; blade is fullered, double edged and made by Henry Wilkinson; steel honeysuckle guard; leather covered scabbard; carried by Sir William Peyton, 7th Dragoon Guards. | Edged Weapons | 1958-05-49 |
Indian Army Infantry Officer's sword, South Bengal Native Infantry; the blade is engraved with a dedication to the owner, G J Dalrymple-Hay. | Edged Weapons | 1962-06-21 |
Cavalry Trooper's sword, 1918 (c), with slightly curved blade, bowl guard and wire bound grip; scabbard; associated with the 17th Cavalry Regiment, Indian Army. | Edged Weapons | 1959-10-156 |
Presentation Pattern 1796 Infantry Officer's sword; straight blade is decorated with bluing and etching, including the dedication to Lt Col Richard Lloyd, commander of the Goree Island Garrison, from the officers of that garrison; silver and brass gilt hilt, with a knucklebow and shell guard, bearing a crest, possibly of the Williamson family; fishskin scabbard marked with the decorator's or retailer's name, Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. | Edged Weapons | 1960-10-16 |
Officer's Presentation sword and scabbard, 1815; similar to the Levée sword worn by the Light Cavalry; blade bears engraved decoration, including the figure of a winged angel and the maker's name, Richard Johnston; mameluke hilt with a moulded gilt brass cross guard; ivory grips; gilt knot and cord; gilt brass scabbard bearing the dedication to Lt Col Hugh Gough, 87th (Prince of Wales Own Irish) Regiment, when receiving the freedom of the City of Dublin after his service in the Peninsular Campaign and North Africa. | Edged Weapons | 1960-09-43 |
Headover worn by Pte Julian Humphrys, 1995-1997, 6/7th Bn Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (TA). | Uniforms | 1999-02-106 |
Collection of photocopied letters of Surgeon John Magrath (1800-1845) mainly to his wife, Georgina; Magrath served in the 1st Afghan War, attached to the 37th Bengal Native Infantry, and was taken prisoner during the retreat from Kabul. | Archives | 1999-02-116 |
Presentation sword, Anson Memorial Prize Sword; variation of Pattern 1822 Infantry Officer; straight blade with engraved decoration, including the maker's name, Henry Wilkinson, and the dedication to Gentleman Cadet H W Johnstone, for his study and conduct at the Royal Military College and winning the Anson Memorial Prize in 1885; 'Gothic' guard; wooden grip covered in fishskin; steel scabbard. | Edged Weapons | 1957-08-15 |
Two wooden polo sticks, 1911-1915; one was owned by Lt Col Robert Montagu Poore, 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars. | Equipment, general | 1957-04-70 |
Pattern 1885 Cavalry Trooper's sword; standard pattern blade, engraved with initials BO and WD acceptance and inspection marks; steel guard pierced with a Maltese Cross, stamped inside the guard with Regimental monograms including that of the 7th Dragoon Guards and possibly Dorsetshire Yeomanry; steel scabbard and white leather sword knot. | Edged Weapons | 1969-08-45 |
129 lantern slides of the 78th Division in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy, 1942-1945. British official war photographs relating to the division were given to the 78th Division Battleaxe Club, who then developed slides of them; associated with World War Two (1939-1945). | Photographs | 1999-03-88 |
Indian Army cavalry sword; curved blade with reground upper edge; three bar hilt; guard stamped 2568; leather covered grip bound with wire; leather scabbard with steel mouthpiece and chape; belonged to donor when in the 7th Hariana Lancers. | Edged Weapons | 1966-11-24 |
Cavalry sword; 7th Dragoons, 1689-1720 (c); double edged blade with diamond cross section; brass hilt with knuckle bow, two shells and five bar basket; round pommel engraved with regimental name; wooden grip. | Edged Weapons | 1965-05-36 |
Two wooden polo sticks, 1910 (c); the heads are stained and pitted; staffs are of bamboo and are bound with red cord at the head and handle; owned by Capt V N Lockett, 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers. | Equipment, general | 1955-10-27 |
Infantry officer's sword, pattern 1822; spear point blade; 'gothic' guard stamped with VR cypher; leather knot. | Edged Weapons | 1971-02-24 |
Sikhs and Garwolies [sic] of the 11th Indian Division Cutting their way of Retreat through the Jungle, 1941 (c). Watercolour over pencil by Gnr Leo Rawlings (1918-1984), 137th Field Regiment Royal Artillery, signed in lower right corner; a soldier wields an axe to clear the way for other soldiers marching through the thick jungle, two carrying an invalid on a stretcher. | Drawings and Watercolours | 1999-04-26 |
Friendly Chinese giving assistance to retreating British Troops, 1941 (c). Watercolour over pencil by Gnr Leo Rawlings (1918-1984), 137th Field Regiment Royal Artillery; hungry British troops are offered food by Chinese villagers outside huts flying Japanese flags. | Drawings and Watercolours | 1999-04-27 |
MALAYA 137th Field Regiment (Blackpool) Signallers lay cable through swamp, 1941 (c). Watercolour over pencil by Gnr Leo Rawlings (1918-1984), 137th Field Regiment Royal Artillery, signed and dated in lower right corner; two soldiers in the foreground trail cable from a reel they are carrying through a swamp while a colleague secures some of it to a tree. | Drawings and Watercolours | 1999-04-28 |
MALAYA Bombing of a Hospital Train, 1941 (c). Watercolour over pencil by Gnr Leo Rawlings (1918-1984), 137th Field Regiment Royal Artillery, signed lower right corner; freight and hospital trains being bombed in a station, while soldiers operate anti-aircraft guns and continue to load supplies. | Drawings and Watercolours | 1999-04-29 |
5th 11th Sikhs in action against the Japanese at Yong Peng..., 1941. Pencil by Gnr Leo Rawlings (1918-1984), 137th Field Regiment Royal Artillery; a Sikh soldier is poised to bayonet a Japanese soldier whilst two other Sikhs pursue a fleeing Japanese soldier. | Drawings and Watercolours | 1999-04-30 |
Got a Light Mate? - Changi Canteen, 1943. Watercolour over pencil by Gnr Leo Rawlings (1918-1984), 137th Field Regiment Royal Artillery; an emaciated prisoner-of-war asks another for a light for his cigarette outside a hut displaying a list of items for sale in the canteen. | Drawings and Watercolours | 1999-04-31 |
Webley .455 in Mk VI breechloading revolver, 1915 pattern; with holster and ammunition pouch, 1916; revolver sold out of service; all items are marked to the user J R Burkitt, 17th Lancers. | Firearms | 1991-08-93 |
Webley .455 in Mk VI breechloading revolver, 1915 pattern; with holster and ammunition pouch, 1916; revolver sold out of service; all items are marked to the user J R Burkitt, 17th Lancers. | Equipment, general | 1991-08-93 |
Light cavalry officer's sword, pattern 1796; curved blade, engraved with floral and military motifs, royal coat of arms, maker's name, Osborne and Gunby, Birmingham and London, and motto; hilt with knucklebow; backpiece with riveted ears; leather covered wooden ribbed grip; steel scabbard with loose split rings. | Edged Weapons | 1975-02-2 |
Officer's mameluke-hilted Sabre sword, 1817; latch back blade, inscribed with presentation inscription and maker's name, J Prosser, London; crossguard with decorated crossbar finials; ivory grip; steel scabbard with gilt fittings and rope type rings; associated with the Napoleonic Wars. | Edged Weapons | 1988-07-26 |
Wooden walking stick, 1950-1953 (c); natural wood, curved and knotted, bearing much of the original wood; white wood can be seen where the back is worn away; with an iron ferrule; cut in Korea and carried during the Korean War by Brig B A Coad, 27th Cornwall Infantry Brigade. | Equipment, general | 1960-07-170 |