NEWSLETTER 33 A P R I L 2 0 1 7 MUSEUM SAVED I N S I D E THIS ISSUE: As you may have already Museum will be reprovided literal and spiritual home read in the newspapers, for when the Barracks of The Queen’s Lancashire 2 Life Fulwood Barracks has closes in 2022.” Regiment and its successor been earmarked and predecessor Recently 2 Donated for closure in Regiments for 2022. nearly 150 years. Farewell 2 Hayley! Although the It is hoped that the

The Friends 3 barracks may be museum can closing there is maintain its close

Dates for 4 good news for Lancashire Infantry Museum links with the Your Diary the Lancashire Barracks in the

Joseph 1917 5 Infantry Museum. future. We are very In the meantime, Education 6 pleased to the Lancashire announce that Mark Roger Goodwin, Museum Infantry Museum continues Trustee, said “The future Simply 7 Lancaster, the to collect and display its Schools of the museum has been Parliamentary Under wonderful collection and assured. The Ministry of Shop 8 Secretary of State for will do so for the Defence has confirmed Defence Personnel and foreseeable future. Our that they will provide DVDs! 9 Veterans has stated that excellent education suitable and alternative “The MOD recognises the sessions continue to be accommodation for us Group 10 historical significance of very popular and we have a should that become Bookings Fulwood Barracks and the wonderful line up of talks necessary.” Contact 10 long standing connection and events for 2017! Details the local community has The Lancashire Infantry The newsletter will keep with the military and the Museum has close links you informed of our Lancashire Infantry with Fulwood Barracks, exciting plans as they Museum.” there has been a museum develop. So, watch this here since 1928. Fulwood “I am pleased to announce space! Barracks has also been the that the Lancashire Infantry P A G E 2 Lancashire Life

In 2017 the magazine, Infantry Museum ran a of the Berlin Wall, Lancashire Life will poll on Facebook and in Stanley Bewsher’s Brodie celebrate its 70th the museum where Helmet and William birthday. visitors could vote on Ratcliffe VC’s machine To mark this their favourite object. gun. Eight objects were momentous occasion, Visitors chose the originally chosen. These Lancashire Life will show Salamanca Eagle as their were; the Maida 70 objects from heritage favourite object. It has Tortoise, the Salamanca venues across now been put forward as Eagle, the red flag from Lancashire’s County the museums entry into Kimberley, Lieutenant Palatine between “A History of Lancashire Ashcroft’s signaling The Salamanca September and in 70 Objects”. Watch equipment from D-Day, November 2017. this space to see if it has Eagle Nor Iron Bars, a section In January the Lancashire been chosen!

2nd Battalion, Recently Donated Loyal North Recently donated to the museum is a wonderful collection of photographs Lancashire relating to the 2nd Battalion, Loyal North Regiment, Lancashire’s time in East Africa during WW1. 1914 to 1916 If you would like to view the album or see East Africa our wonderful archive, please contact the Photograph Curator [email protected] Album to make an appointment. Farewell Hayley!

After many years of the Sherwood Foresters! volunteering at the For four years, Hayley museum, Hayley Du did the excellent job of Buisson, has moved on editing the newsletter. to pastures new. Hayley We wish her the best of is now working at Derby luck and thank her for all Local Studies and Family the work she did for the History Library putting Lancashire Infantry everything she learnt Museum. Your help and here to good use, this support was much Hayley (centre) with Lynn and Roger Turp time helping families of appreciated. men who served with NEWSLETTER 33 P A G E 3 Join the Friends

Through this forum, they help Memberships to support and sustain one of the most important military Individual £10 history collections in the Family (includes partner & up country. Its easy to to two children) £15 Registered Charity No. By becoming a Friend, you can Senior Citizen £5 become a 1120003 get involved in as much or as little as you wish. Individual Life Membership Friend — (single donation) £100 The Friends of The Some of the benefits include: just

Museum are an active  Access to the archives contact organisation with an  Discounted research Interested? interest in military assistance Contact the Museum today and the history, particularly  Publications become a member. that of The Queen’s  Reduced event entry friends@lancashireinfantrymu museum seum.org.uk fees today! and its antecedents.  Battlefield Tours

News from the Friends!

Greaves, who is beginning to Battlefield Tour 2017  Arrive Fulwood Barracks know as much about our Bosch Rose 2017 approx.10.00 am 23 battlefield histories as we do. September 17-23 September 2017  Departure from and return to

Fulwood Barracks The Friends will be heading to the Cost = £850 per person Netherlands, to take a look at that  Overnight ferry Hull – sharing or £975 for a single and part of Operation Market Garden Zeebrugge 17/18 September £150 a head discount for those and its aftermath which is less well-  Staying throughout in joining in Holland known, but in which two of our Nijmegen – same base antecedent regiments – the 1st East throughout, no moving hotels. st If you wish to join the tour please Lancashire and the 1 South  Follow the XXX Corps route email the Friends for an application Lancashire – both had hard-fought (the ‘Garden’ bit) from Joe’s form and bloody parts to play. Also we Bridge on the Belgian border friends@lancashireinfantrymuseum cannot visit that now delightful part up to Arnhem. .org.uk of the Continent without at least  Visit S’Hertogensbosch, There is also a £250 deposit per taking a look at the Arnhem battle, Arnhem, Nijmegen, Overloon person with balances to be paid by where the Border Regiment, now (battlefield and Museum) our brothers in the Duke of the 15th June.  Possible visit to Reichswald As the tours are so popular and Lancaster’s Regiment, gained much Forest numbers are limited, places will be glory.  Leisure Day in Delft  By coach, once again under allocated on a first come, first  Overnight ferry Europort served basis and to those who the able command of our old (Rotterdam) – Hull 22/23 pre-registered. and good friend Mike September P A G E 4 Friends Study Evening’s

The Friends of the tactics and defences. the 1950’s; the part Lancashire Infantry Friday 7th July played by former Museum run an Regimental officer Field “Bosch Rose 2017” interesting and Marshal Sir Gerald informative series of John Downham Templar; and the study evenings outlines the struggles Intelligence War. throughout the year. of our antecedent regiments at Thursday 7th Friends at a Study These are the dates for S’Hertogensbosch; in December Evening your 2017 diary! support of Operation (10.30am) Market Garden; and on Friends AGM and Friday 19th May the German frontier in Christmas Lunch (with Lancashire the autumn and winter ABF) of 1944/1945. All talks start at 19.00 “Passchendaele and and end at 21.30. A Friday 27th October Messines Ridge 1917” hotpot supper is served “Malaya” In their centenary year, and there is also a bar! John Downham Talks by John Dowham By joining the Friends describes two of the and David Rogan on Dates you will get reduced most terrible battles of the role of our admission to all these WW1. David Rogan regiments in the anti- for Your talks on the German communist campaign of study evenings.

Diary Saturday Talks 2017! New for 2017 we are introducing a series of SaturdayInside talks. Story Priced Headline just £2.00 with tea, coffee and homemade cakes available to purchase. No need to book, just turn up on the day, 10.45 for an 11.00am start.

Saturday 22nd April Saturday 27th May Saturday 17th June “War Memorials and “Joseph 1917” “Rorke’s Drift and its Their Conservation” David Hewitt Connection to Preston” Mike Coyle

David Casserley

P A G E 6 “When Lancashire Sings”

The Lancashire Infantry the life and death of winning folk group ‘The Museum recently had William Burrell, a Young’Uns’, the pupils the privilege of taking Preston man who recorded a song part in a wonderful served with the Loyal dedicated to William, project with Lancashire North Lancashire his wife Peggy and their County Council children. Heritage Learning Team. The culmination of the Folk Group ‘The “When Lancashire project saw all the Young’Uns’ Sings” was a Heritage schools who had taken Lottery Funded project part in the project which aimed to inspire perform live on stage young people to create with the Young’Uns at modern folk music the Guild Hall, Preston. Leyland Methodist School through learning about It was a fantastic their local heritage. Regiment during WW1. evening. William was Pupils from Leyland unfortunately killed in The CD, produced and Methodist School visited action in 1917. recorded by Andy Bell Education the Lancashire Infantry will be available shortly. Museum and researched Writing with the award at the Lancashire Infantry “Away From the Western Front” The Lancashire Infantry explore, commemorate relating to this Museum! Museum, once again in and raise awareness of campaign. It includes partnership with WW1 campaigns diaries, letters and Lancashire photographs County relating to the CouncilInside Story Headline men of the 6th Heritage Battalions of Learning Team, the East will soon be Lancashire, launching a South project aimed Lancashire and at young adults Loyal North looking at the Lancashire forgotten front Regiments 6th Battalion, SLANR in Mesopotamia, 1917 of WW1, who all served Mesopotamia. outside of Europe. over there.

‘Away from the The Lancashire Infantry As the project Western Front’ is a Museum houses a progresses we will keep nationwide project fascinating archive you informed of what which aims to educate, packed full of material we have been doing.

P A G E 8 Regimental Histories

The following The History of the East The South Lancashire Regimental Histories Lancashire Regiment Regiment are now available to  1914 to 1918  1741 to 1918 order from the museum £25.00 £25.00 (email : cura-   Ich Dien (1914 to tor@lancashireinfantry 1939 to 1945 museum.org.uk ) or £25.00 1935) £25.00 from Amazon (search under Lancashire Infantry Museum)

The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment  Volume 1: 1741 to 1914 £16.50  Volume 2 : 1914 to 1919 £16.50  Volume 3 : 1919 Books take 2 to 3 to 1970 £16.50 weeks for delivery.

Shop! Museum Photograph Collection

The Museum holds the Associations and Veterans, All proceeds go to the Queen’s Lancashire and others. Many of the preservation and Regiment images appeared over the maintenance of the Photography Collection. years in the . Inside Story Headline Magazine, “Lancashire This active archive of some Lad.” To make a purchase go to 8,000 (so far, and the museum’s website counting) mainly www.lancashireinfantrymus photographs, but also eum.org.uk and click on cartoons, drawings, pamphlets and notices, “Photo Archives.” covers every aspect of the life of the Regiment from Also available to purchase is 1981 onwards. the Territorial Army North West Photo Collection. All parts of the regimental The Archive is currently Disc One covers the family are featured, being digitised. DVD disks Infantry, Discs Two to Six including both the 1st and are available covering the the Artillery and Disc 7 the 4th Battalions, the Cadets, years completed so far, at a Yeomanry. Each DVD the Regimental cost of £12 per DVD costs £12. For more details including post and packing. check out our website!

Group Visits

We offer a variety of programmes We can also provide tea and suitable for all ages; coffee for group bookings for £1.00 per person.  A guided tour of the museum and the Garri- son Church of St. Alban’s To book or for more (one to one and a half information please contact hours) museum staff . Contact £4.00 per person details are below. (Weekdays and Evenings) The newly refurbished Somme Room

 A guided tour of the museum and the Garrison  Fun activity sessions for youth Church of St. Alban’s plus a groups. Involves handling hotpot supper and a paid session and dressing up bar £2.50 per person (Leaders £15.00 per person are free) Dressing up fun at the museum! (Weekday Evenings) (Weekday Evenings)

At the Lancashire Infantry Museum you can explore the fascinating story of the Lancashire soldier in peace and war. Come and see how the Lancashire Lad lived, worked and fought throughout the The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment world from the founding of the Regiment Lancashire Infantry Museum by William of Orange in 1689 to the present day. Address: We encourage visits from groups, Fulwood Barracks, researchers, families and educational Preston, groups. Lancashire, We are open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, PR2 8AA. Thursdays and Saturdays from 10.00 to 16.00. Phone: 01772 260362

As we are located within a working MOD Email: establishment ALL ADULT visitors need to bring with them photographic ID (such [email protected] as a Driver’s License) to show the Website: Guardroom on arrival. www.lancashireinfantrymuseum.org.uk