by Jane Harrad-Roberts | Aug 28, 2023 | Museum News
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...
by Jane Harrad-Roberts | Jun 30, 2023 | Museum News
Marjorie Rigby, 89, from Frodsham started knitting poppies in January 2022 and ten months later she had completed 1,200. The hand knitted poppies were sown onto ribbons and assembled by the villagers of Great Barrow near Chester to display in the heart of their...
by Jane Harrad-Roberts | Nov 7, 2022 | Event, Museum News
His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester visited the Cheshire Military Museum in Chester in November. Personnel from the museum and its Trustees were on hand to guide His Royal Highness through the displays, exhibits and work of the museum in education with its links...
by Jane Harrad-Roberts | Sep 3, 2022 | Event
A dedication ceremony for the memorial to the former Cheshire Regiment was held at the National Memorial Arboretum yesterday. The memorial followed two former soldiers’ campaign after finding the regiment was not represented there on a visit in 2018. Ashley...