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SOUTHWEST
BODMIN
KEEP ARMY
MUSEUM
This year the DCLI and LI museum has
a new name, ‘Bodmin Keep,’ which celebrates its historic barracks home. Following the enforced closure in March, the museum team stepped up their digital work from home and became an ‘online museum,’ producing podcasts, download- able resources for home schooling, online exhibitions, a 3D virtual museum visit and fun family activities. All these resources can still be found on the museum’s website www.bodminkeep.org which is well worth a look.
The museum has now reopened to the public and has three new exhibitions which are also available online: Cornwall’s Citizen Army, which tells the story of the Territorial Army in Cornwall; Frontiers of Fashion which explores how military uniform has influenced popular fashion, and Souvenirs and Spoils which highlights items in the museum which have been collected from theatres of war through the ages. The team are also working on two other exciting
The museum has now reopened to the public
and has three new exhibitions
projects; an exhibit entitled ‘Not Just Another Brick in the Wall’ which highlights mental health in the military and an exciting partnership with the Imperial War Museum on the theme of World War II.
Museum sign showing the
Distinguished Conduct Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal and Territorial War Medal 1918. Awarded to W E White, a Territorial soldier before the outbreak of World War One, serving with the 4th Battalion DCLI. W E White was awarded the medal for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. This included leading the rescue of buried and injured soldiers after the collapse of a trench by shell fire, and then manning the post alongside his company.
Verity Anthony opens the gates of
new branding, 2020
The Keep to visitors again, August 2020
Ceramic plaque from a
Cornish TA Drill Hall, 1930s
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