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The Rifles Museums Network
The Rifles Regiment, the largest infantry regiment in the British Army, was formed in 2007 by merging four regiments, each with its own storied heritage: The Devonshire & Dorset Light Infantry, The Light Infantry, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Light Infantry, and The Royal Green Jackets. Many of the forming regiments and their antecedent regiments have their own museums, collectively known as The Rifles Museums Network. These museums, located across the country, showcase the proud history of The Rifles. Whether you visit one or all of our museums, you are guaranteed a friendly welcome and an enriching experience!
The Rifleman's Museum
The Museum offers a compelling journey through over two and a half centuries of the Rifleman’s history, highlighting remarkable stories of bravery. It guides visitors in the footsteps of the lineage of the Royal Green Jackets, their predecessors, and their evolution into the modern Rifles, formed in 2007 through the amalgamation of the Royal Green Jackets and other regiments.
Bodmin Keep: Cornwall's Army Museum
Bodmin Keep is over 160 years old and is the historic home of the Army in Cornwall. This former headquarters of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry houses the museum, with more than three hundred years of military history, a library and meeting rooms. Each of the 20,000 collection items has its own story to tell. Stories about the battles that have been fought, weapons that were used or personal letters that were written on the battlefield.
Durham Light Infantry (DLI) Digital Collections
The Durham Light Infantry (DLI) collections are available digitally. The archive collection contains detailed descriptions of the records, and images of over 34,000 photographs in the collection; key items from the object collection are available to view online, and the medal collection – which includes six original Victoria Crosses, plus over 3,000 other medals awarded to over 1,000 men who served in the DLI regiment – can be searched online and includes many photographs.
Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum
The Museum tells the story of the The Herefordshire Light Infantry, The Herefordshire Regiment and The Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers – all volunteers from a small rural English county. It is a success story; a story of bravery, determination, and devotion to duty, of sadness, of comrades lost, but also that of a job well done. It is a story that deserves to be told and to known more widely.
The Keep Military Museum
The Keep Military Museum in Dorchester offers a fascinating insight into local military history. The Grade II listed building, once the gatehouse for the Depot Barracks of the Dorsetshire Regiment, houses amazing artefacts, learning experiences and fun for all the family. The Museum is open every day of the week from 10am-4:30pm, with last entry at 3:30pm! We look forward to seeing you!
The Regimental Museum of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Soldiers of The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) served around the world for over 200 years. Discover the amazing true stories of Yorkshire soldiers and their families in peace and wartime. The history of the regiment is told through weapons, uniforms, medals, and more.
The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum
The museum details the fascinating history of the Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiments with artefacts from the regular, militia and volunteer infantry units. The collections are vast with over 16,000 photographs, 6,000 archive documents, 4,000 medals, almost a thousand items of uniform, about 500 weapons, including swords, rifles, pistols, anti-tank weapons. There are also pictures, flags, ornaments and battlefield souvenirs such as a cannon ball from the American War of Independence.
Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum
Come and discover the lives of Gloucestershire soldiers from the last 300 years. Try on Army uniforms, look into a First World War trench, learn about medals and how soldiers won them through history with our interactive displays. Do you know how the Gloucestershire Regiment won the Back Badge? See how the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars survived fighting in the desert? Have you felt how heavy a Rifleman’s rucksack is? With changing exhibitions and our Soldiers of the Month display, there is always something new to see. There is plenty for the whole family to do, children’s games, uniforms to try on plus a free quiz. Our story begins in 1694, travels through the Napoleonic Wars, the Age of Empire, Worlds Wars, Korea and right up to modern day conflicts. Come and discover the stories of twelve generations of Gloucestershire soldiers.
Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
More than a local military museum, SOFO is a museum that everyone can enjoy, from kids to parents and grandparents. We tell stories of how conflict has affected the county and its people, from soldiers serving on the front lines to ordinary people living on the Home Front.
On top of a range of ever-changing displays and events, our permanent exhibits explore topics that you’ll find surprising and moving in equal measure, such as raw accounts of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen from both camp survivors and Oxfordshire soldiers.
There is so much to do at the museum, from family trails and dress up to enjoying our visiting exhibition spaces so make sure you give your family plenty of time to experience the county’s only military museum.
Somerset Military Museum
Somerset Military Museum tells the story of the Somerset’s regiments in war and peace. It features the history of the following regiments:
· Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert’s)
· Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
· West Somerset Yeomanry
· North Somerset Yeomanry
· Somerset Militia, Rifle Volunteers and Territorials
· The Light Infantry and its successor regiment, The Rifles
The gallery introduces visitors to the formation and development of Somerset’s regiments and explores why soldiers fight for their country.
Soldiers of Shropshire Museum
The Museum is host to a journey through nearly 300 years of British Army Evolution, seen through the eyes, campaigns and sacrifices of Shropshire Soldiers.
The Museum displays the significant collections of the Shropshire regiments between 1755 and 1968 as well as their local successor regiments – The Light Infantry & Rifles; and the Royal Yeomanry, (Shropshire Yeomanry) Squadron.
Discover the stories of Shropshire Soldiers in war and peace, at home and abroad, from their formation to the present day.

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