This object is one of five paintings by Thomas Baines (1820-75) of scenes relating to the activities of the 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, en route to and during the Third Kaffir War in the Cape Colony (South Africa) in 1852. This particular painting bears the title ‘Landing in Surf at Algoa Bay, Cape of…
The two field guns that guard the entrance to the Museum at Winchester were captured by 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, during the Battle of Omdurman on 2 September 1898. Subsequently they were presented to the Battalion by a grateful General Sir Herbert (later Field Marshal Lord) Kitchener. He commanded the British, Egyptian and Sudanese armies…
This rather unusual object is the false arm used by Lieutenant-General Sir Walter Congreve VC KCB MVO (The Rifle Brigade) to replace his left hand which was amputated after he was wounded at Vimy Ridge on the Western Front in France in June 1917.
A silver matchbox holder with a King’s Royal Rifle Corps crest on the topside which belonged to Lieutenant-Colonel R G Buchanan-Riddell, who was killed during the South African War by a sniper after successfully leading 3rd Battalion KRRC in a successful assault on the Boer positions at Twin Peaks on 24 January 1900.
This object is one of 300,000 copies of Karl Goetz’s ‘Lusitania Medallion’ cast and distributed in England as part of an anti-German propaganda campaign following the sinking of the Cunard liner RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915. Original medallions made in Germany are very scarce. There is one on display in the…
