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Museum staff and volunteers engage with the public at the Passchendaele Remembered Event
THE MERCIAN REGIMENT MUSEUM (WORCESTERSHIRE)
Dr John Paddock, Curator
This has been another busy year for the Museum and our thanks, once again, are due to our dedicated team of volunteers for all their hard work, good humour and support!
Cross. The Museum holds Dancox’s VC and was able to take it to the Victoria Cross Paving Stone Ceremony, which took place at the Army Reserve Centre at Dancox House, Worcester on 21st October 2017. This event
Much of our work this year has inevitably concentrated on the World War I commemorations.
The Museum mounted
an exhibition to
mark the centenary
of the Battle of the
“Passchendaele” (3rd
Battle of Ypres) 31st
July – 10th November
1917 and the role of
the Worcestershire
Regiment in it. This
exhibition ran from the 31st July - 31st October 1917 and received over 5,000 visitors.
During this Campaign, for his bravery at the Battle of Poelcappelle on the 9th October 1917, Private Frederick Dancox of the 4th Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment was awarded the Victoria
was preceded by a
Freedom March by soldiers of 1 and 4 MERCIAN. Later that day the Museum hosted a fundraising Dinner at the Guildhall, Worcester.
Finally, to mark the end of this battle, during which more than 500,000 men from both
sides are believed to have been wounded or killed; The Worcestershire Regiment alone sustaining 2759 casualties, the Museum took part in a one day Community Event at St Helen’s Church, Worcester on the 4th November 2017 named “Passchendaele Remembered”.
‘The Museum holds Dancox’s VC and was able to take
it to the Victoria Cross Paving Stone Ceremony’
THE MERCIAN EAGLE
The “Sikh jacket” picked on the battlefield of Ferozeshah, in 1845