Letter written by Lt E C Eyre following the battle of Waterloo The letter above was written by Lieutenant Richard Cocks Eyre who served with the 2nd Battalion 95th Foot at the Battle of Waterloo. Addressed to his mother, it is dated 28 June 1815, just ten days following the event, and describes his…
The cartoon above featured in the Daily Mirror in 1940 after the action that took place that year, known as the Defence of Calais. The artwork was created by the cartoonist known as ‘Spar’ who served with the Queen Victoria Rifles and is on display in the World War II section at The Royal Green…
This artwork, one of two oil paintings by Josselin Bodley in The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Collection, captures the aftermath of the action at Polygon Wood near Ypres with the destruction of the landscape on a tranquil spring day. Josselin Reginald Courtney Bodley, son of the historian J.E.C Bodley, was born in 1893. After attending…
Letters and Photographs of Bandsman Holmes This month we have been looking at a collection of recently donated items relating to Bandsman Albert Holmes who served with the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Bandsman Holmes was among those captured at The Defence of Calais in May 1940. The items include a set of letters and postcards…
The Tusk of Gullala is a silver centrepiece that was commissioned to commemorate the bravery of Rifleman Burke of the 1st Battalion 60th during the Yussufzai Expedition of December 1849. This was a punitive expedition against the Sam Barzai tribe who occupied tha area between Peshwar and the Swat River and were refusing to pay…
