What’s on

Wednesday 28th October-Saturday 31st October

For a small donation you can pick up a pumpkin pack from The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum front desk.  Included in the pack is a small polystyrene pumpkin with googly eyes, sparkly gems and Halloween stickers to decorate your pumpkin with!  All you need at home is some paint!  You can pick up an activity pack between Wednesday 28th October -Saturday 31st October.  The Museum will be open 10am-2.30pm (last entry 1.45pm)

We have limited packs available so please message us if you would like to reserve one.

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An Online Presentation by Peter Johnson

6.30pm Thursday 19 November 2020

Conquerors.  Occupiers.  Allies.  Friends.  The British Army’s relationship with Germany since 1945 has certainly been complex.  From the end of the Second World War to 2019, the Army was based there in large numbers.  from occupying a defeated and destroyed country to – (more…)

An Online Presentation by Brigadier Hugh Willing CBE

6.30pm Thursday  21st January, 2021

Relations between the Sultan of Muscat and Imam Ghalib Bin Ali of Nizwa, leader of the interior Omani Arabs, was exacerbated in 1953 by Saudi Arabian claims on the oil field at Buraimi Oasis and their provision of military equipment to the Omani rebels.  Matters came to a head in 1958 when the SAS were brought in to dislodge the Omani rebels from their mountain stronghold on the Jebel Akhdar – The Green Mountain.  (more…)

An Online Presentation by Christopher Mellor Hill

6.30pm Thursday 19 March 2021

Fighting in Africa during the First World War presented some very different challenges to those faced on the Western Front.  Christopher Mellor-Hill will give some insight into the operations across the German African colonies of Togoland, the Kamerun, German South West Africa and German East Africa. (more…)