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REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATIONNEWS
Cornwall
West Cornwall Branch
At the West Cornwall Branch annual dinner at the Lugger Hotel, Penzance, on 15th November 2013, Mr John Nott, (ex 2nd Gurkha Rifles) once Secretary of State for Defence was the guest speaker.
Cornwall’s Regimental Museum
The photograph shows (left to right), Mr M J Clarke (Nobby) Standard Bearer, Major Hugo White, Major Peter Michell (Chairman), Mr John Nott, Mr Frank Baxter (aged 94 years) Secretary and Mrs Elizabeth Bolitho (mother of the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall).
this project. Would anyone who would like to contribute to this fund, please contact the museum on 01208 72810 for details.
The Museum has recently purchased
the major acquisition of General Sir John Moore’s Sword. He was wearing this
sword when he was killed at Corunna on 16 January 1809. The Museum is intending
to open a Sir John Moore exhibition, displaying a number of artefacts relating to the General’s career in the Spring of 2015 to launch the new season and to coincide with Waterloo celebrations.
The centrepiece will be Sir John Moore’s Order of the Knights of the Bath Mantle supported by his sword, cummerbund, nutmeg grinder and various documents relating to his soldiering.
The mantle (cloak) is in poor condition 190 REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION NEWS
owing to the way it has been handled
and displayed in the past. It is currently undergoing conservation and preparation for display by the Textiles and Ethnographic conservator at The
Royal Albert Memorial
Museum in Exeter at
an estimated cost of
£6K. Once completed,
the Museum will
have to prepare a
bespoke display cabinet with the relevant environmental lighting and atmosphere to protect this valuable artefact. The trustees will be conducting a major fund raising exercise to cover the considerable costs of
The Museum has
The trustees will be conducting a major fund raising exercise
been opened on Saturdays throughout July and August supported by Cornwall’s Family History Society especially aimed at WW1 research for
customers. This has proved a tremendous success and leads up to an exhibition on 23 August – the first action of WW1 in which the DCLI played a major part.
THE RIFLES