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Unit unknown or none - A coat of arms on wooden shield. Borough of Thamesdown (8'x9')
View Item62nd Regiment - A pewter button of the 62nd Regiment circa 1780-1783 and a a fragment of an O/Rs shako plate (62nd Foot) for the period 1855-61; these items were reputedly found at Niagara, USA and presented by a W Culver Esq to a Lieutenant Colonel P S Brown who further presented them to the Officers of the 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, the successor Regiment to the 62nd of Foot, in December 1930. Thus we have two artefacts of the 62nd Regiment who served in North America/ Canada on two different occasions some 75 years apart. The two are framed in a frame which measures 7 x 7 inches.
View Item66th Regiment - An officer's button for a shell jacket (one of set of 8) from approximately 1794
View ItemUnit unknown or none - An officer's gorget made of incised brass; it is 4 inches in size and oval in shape.
View Item66th Regiment - An officer's belt plate of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment; it is Hallmarked and three inches oval in size.
Persons(s): Lascelles, Major;
View Item66th Regiment - An other rank's Regimental button of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment.
View Item49th Regiment - An other ranks' Regimental buttons of the 49th (Hertfordshire) Regiment found at Fort Anne, Nova Scotia, Canada.
View Item66th Regiment - An officer's silver belt plate, the property of Major Lascelles of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment - it is not hallmarked.
Persons(s): Lascelles, Major;
View Item99th Regiment - A soldier's Shako badge of the 99th Lanarkshire Regiment with brass front plate nine and a half inches high
View Item66th Regiment - A button badge and bullet from the 1812 frontier war with America found at Fort George Canada 1897. The button has 49 on the front with the maker's name partly illegible on the reverse '...ting and Son Covent Garden'
View Item66th Regiment - A silver button, mounted on wooden block with silver corner pieces and inscribed. 'Presented by Captain A H B Thurst Manchester Regiment'. It was found at St. Helena in 1901 by a Boer prisoner of war. The 66th Regiment had previously been garrisoned there as a Guard for the Emperor Napoleon from 1816 to 1821.
View Item66th Regiment - A button found at St. Helena in 1984; it is in a poor condition and was presented by the Jamestown Museum, St Helena. The 66th Regiment had been garrisoned there as a Guard for the Emperor Napoleon from 1816 to 1821.
View ItemDuke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment. A framed embroidered badge from Sheldon School, Chippenham
View ItemGloucestershire Regiment - A collection of badges and insignia of the Gloucestershire Regiment (28th/61st). This display was presented to the Museum to commemorate the amalgamation of the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment with the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1994.
View Item49th Regiment - An officer's shoulder belt plate in silver on brass, engraved with '49' circumscribed by 'Princess Charlotte of Wales'. Around the badge are 'Egmont op Zee' Queenstown' and ' Copenhagen'.
View Item49th Regiment - An officer's shoulder belt plate engraved with '49' circumscribed by 'Princess Charlotte of Wales'. Around the badge are 'Egmont op Zee' Queenstown' 'China' and ' Copenhagen'.
View Item62nd Regiment - A silver officer's shoulder plate belt with 'Peninsular' beneath the crown.
View Item62nd Regiment - An officer's shoulder belt plate brass on silver on brass with 'Peninsular' beneath the crown.
View Item66th Regiment - An officer's shoulder belt plate silver on brass, with, on the spines, 'Douro' 'Talavera' 'Peninsular' 'Nive' 'Pyrenees' 'Albuhera' 'Vittoria' 'Nivelle' and 'Orthes'; it is labelled 1825
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