Rose Gentle, mother of Fusilier Gordon Gentle, who was sadly killed during the Iraq War, will be awarded an honorary degree at the University of Glasgow on 30 November. Gordon was only 19 years old, when he was killed by a roadside bomb, while serving with The Royal Highland Fusiliers in Basra in 2004; […]
Our Mascot, Bugle the Assaye Elephant welcomed some visitors to the Museum yesterday – as they had something of an action-packed journey from Manchester, they seemed delighted to have actually reached 518 Sauchiehall Street! Michael (Mick) Purvis and his girlfriend, Val Burgess, are visiting the military museums in Scotland by motor cycle to raise money
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By 1917, the British army had captured more than one hundred thousand Turkish soldiers; and by the end of the war, this had risen by a further fifty thousand. These were soldiers of the much-weakened and crumbling Ottoman Empire, who had not really been able to compete with the well-trained British troops whose morale was
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“If there are honours to be won, I will win them!” This remark was made by a young John Manson Craig to his friends; closely followed by an assertion that he was going “to rough it with the rest of the boys” as a private soldier and that is exactly what he did! Hailing from
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Soldiers from The Royal Highland Fusiliers and our antecedent regiments have fought in virtually every war, battle and conflict since the formation of The 21st of Foot (later The Royal Scots Fusiliers) in 1678. So, our collection of medals is probably one of the most comprehensive: dating from the Military General Service Medal (MGSM) that
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For the last part of his excursion Bugle went to the place much closer to home. National Museum Scotland in Edinburgh, place we all know and love. While he deeply enjoyed all the exhibitions. Being fascinated with reach and varied scope of object and stories enclosed between those walls. Out of whole museum he liked
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Following week we moved to Gdańsk to the recently opened Museum of the Second World War. As they put it: “The mission of the Museum of the Second World War is to create a modern institution that will present the history of the war as the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century. Despite the fact
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Bugle the elephant is a viable member of our staff. He is friendly, curious and always ready for adventure. This Easter holiday he decided to take a bit of a holiday and visit some other museums. First he went to Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. In their words: “POLIN Museum is
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This month our visitors has decided on object that while deeply rooted to military music history, it could be easily one of our key exhibits on Great War patriotism and spontaneous recruitment that happened in the dawn of the war as well as eagerness of Glaswegian people to join efforts of the war. It links
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We want to start this month with a post in appreciation of all our volunteers past and present, because, like any small museum, we know that without them our daily life would be much harder and in many cases a lot of our services, from research to even this site could not function an the
