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Remembrance Day 2023, Chester Cathedral Garden
Chester held its annual Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cathedral Garden on Saturday, November 11 10.45am-11.30am, and in Chester city centre and Chester Cathedral on Sunday, November 12, from 9am-noon. Other events took place around the County.
Museum Hosts visit from Chester Business Club
Business leaders from across the region were hosted by Cheshire Military Museum recently. Members of Chester Business Club enjoyed a guided tour of the museum and hospitality on the eve of Remembrance Day. A presentation about Cheshire Archives also gave a great...
Museum hosts Reception for New Bantams Exhibition
On the eve of Remembrance Day, the Cheshire Military Museum arranged a special preview of this important exhibition before it opened to the public. The viewing was followed by a short reception and presentation by the exhibition creator, Sean Livesey explaining the...
Personal Visits to Cheshire Military Museum
Friends of Cheshire Military Museum were honoured to host a special, private visit to the museum. Colonel Dick Peel (Rtd.) was Regimental Secretary, running both the museum and Regimental HQ of the Cheshire Regiment in the 1980/90s. He not only revisited the museum...
Remembrance Day and the Museum
Our attention turns to Remembrance Day at this time of the year. In January 2022 Marjorie Rigby, 89, from Frodsham started knitting poppies and ten months later she had completed 1,200. The hand knitted poppies were sown onto ribbons and assembled by the villagers of...
New Exhibition: The Bantam Battalions
The next exhibition opening on Wednesday 8 November 2023 at Cheshire Military Museum will focus on the role played by the Bantam Battalions during the First World War. One of the untold stories of WW1, Cheshire played a key role in the "bantam battalions" after a...
Queen’s Own Yeomanry in Urban Operations
Last weekend C Squadron based in Chester led an Urban Operation exercise at Swynnerton Training Camp with participation from A (York) and B (Wigan) Squadrons. The exercise focused on the skills and drills required to operate in an urban environment with an ever...
Queens Own Yeomanry at Southport Air Show
The Queens Own Yeomanry B/C Squadron were in attendance at the famed Southport Air Show in September. Last weekend's event was located on Southport sea front and had an exciting schedule including The Military Village, a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster, a...
Visit from Royal Scots
Stuart Kennedy, Curator of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum at Edinburgh Castle visited last week and was welcomed and given a tour of the Museum, including a 'back stage' tour of the archives and museum store. Stuart was impressed and pleased to see the area...
New Exhibition ‘Remembering Bosnia, 30 years on’
A new special exhibition ‘Remembering Bosnia, 30 years on’ has been opened at Cheshire Military Museum. It looks back at the 1st Battalion the Cheshire Regiment’s deployment to Bosnia as part of a UN force in 1992-93. The Cheshire’s were the first British Battalion to...
Visit from 1st Battalion, The Mercian Regiment
The museum welcomed important visitors today from the 1st Battalion of the Mercian Regiment, the Regular Battalion of The Mercian Regiment which incorporated the Cheshire Regiment. The Mercian Regiment is an Infantry Regiment of the British Army, recruited from the...
Battle of the Boyne – Did you know?
Today is the annual commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 but did you know that King William III sailed to Ireland from Hoylake in Cheshire? And that the soldiers who fought were mainly European, from the Netherlands and Denmark. Louis XIV of France had...
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