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…

This object is one of two Naval General Service Medals (1793-1840) with the clasp ‘Copenhagen 1801’ awarded to members of the Experimental Corps of Riflemen (later the 95th Rifles). It is the only one owned by, and on display in, the Museum. It was awarded to Private J. Steff (or Stiff), who was a member…

A fowling piece manufactured by the celebrated French gun-maker, Nicholas-Noël Boutet (1761-1833). It was allegedly plundered from the baggage train of Joseph Buonaparte, King of Spain, following Wellington’s victory and rout of the French during the Peninsular War at Vittoria on 21 June 1813.

This silver communion set was used by the Reverend Lumley Green-Wilkinson when he was chaplain to the 41st Infantry Brigade in the 14th (Light) Division during the Division’s occupation of the trench line in the Ypres salient in mid-1915. The communion set was subsequently used to administer communion to His Majesty King George V during…

This cartoon is one of over fifty in the Museum collection drawn by Major Ian Fenwick of The King’s Royal Rifle Corps who was killed in action behind enemy lines near Orléans, France, on 7 August 1944 while commanding D Squadron, 1st Special Air Service Regiment.

This object is one of the more unusual on display in the Museum: the bellow pipes of the ‘Highland Company’ of the 1st Battalion, 95th Rifles (later The Rifle Brigade), commanded during the first half of the Peninsular War by Captain Alexander Cameron.

The writing case featured is reputed to have belonged to Major-General James Wolfe and was used by him in Canada before he was mortally wounded during the British victory over the French at the Battle of Quebec on 13 September 1759.

The PDSA Dickin Medal awarded in 1949 to a black Egyptian mongrel bitch terrier called ‘Tich’ for loyalty, courage and devotion to duty under hazardous conditions of war between 1941 and 1945 while serving with 1st Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps (1 KRRC), in North Africa and Italy. It is the only Dickin Medal…

The gold cross belonged to Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore. After his death at the Battle of Corunna on 16 January 1809 it passed into the ownership of his sister, Jane Moore, who later gave it to Mrs A. Yonge of Puslinch. The Yonge family have retained possession of it ever since. The cross is presently…

This object is one of the four hooves of ‘Coal Box’, a German pony befriended by bandsmen of the 2nd Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps (2 KRRC), during the First World War. The hoof, which is on display in the Museum, is silver plated and engraved with the words ‘Coal Box 1914-1920’.