A Day in the Life of a Work Experience Student at the AGC Museum
On Monday morning, I started off by touring the AGC Museum alongside the Gurkha Museum. Both of these museums were very interesting and full of artefacts and stories as well as key events and people. In the afternoon, I watched as the museum’s staff led a school trip who visited the Royal Green Jackets Museum, the ...
Archive Spotlight – Records of Service
Records of Service, as their name states, record the service of all personnel serving in a corps or regiment during specific time periods. These documents are incredibly important in tracing the individual histories of service personnel and often used by the Museum when fulfilling research enquiries.
The Museum Archive holds numerous Records of Service, though most prominently ...
D-Day with the AGC’s Antecedents
ABCA sheet with images and information for soldiers regarding why they were fighting.
6th June marks the anniversary of D-Day and the start of the fight to liberate Western Europe during the Second World War. The invasion and subsequent campaign meant the mobilisation of thousands of British, Commonwealth and American troops in the weeks preceding the event ...
Boer War Temporary Exhibition
The AGC’s new temporary exhibit on items from the Second Boer War gives a glimpse in to the life of an Army Pay Corps soldier and his service during the conflict. It has led to discussion of the Second Boer War as a wider conflict, the Pay system in this period and the soldier, Staff Quartermaster ...
“Les Tommettes”- Army Women of the First World War
In 1917, women in uniform were not necessarily a radical, new idea. In 1907 the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) and the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) were formed. By 1915 women were taking over more ‘men’s work’. However, the idea of women in the Army-other than as nurses or cooks from the Women’s Legion- were not ...
The Life and Adventures of Colonel Tim Sweeny, RAPC
Colonel T. H. Sweeny, RAPC.
A quick note to the reader: all place names that are used are the original names used by Col Sweeny in his memoir. The modern locations and place names have been included when each location is first mentioned.
Born in 1898, Colonel Thurston Humphrey ‘Tim’ Sweeny first joined the army as a ...
Operation Corporate – The Falklands War 20 years on
The AGC Museum Temporary Exhibition
Introduction
The Falkland Islands are a remote archipelago in the South Atlantic, not far from the tip of South America and the Antarctic. The Falklands were uninhabited until its discovery by Europeans in the 16th century, and have at various times belonged to Spain, France, Argentina, and Britain. At times, these countries co-existed ...
Army Education in the Victorian Era
In the Victorian period many Army recruits weren’t able to read or write, but the growing technical demands of soldiering required educated men. However, there was no available system in place for this so something had to be created.
‘The First Class Army School Certificate Made Easy’ by An Army Schoolmaster – 1890s
A page from the mathematics ...