Bearskins, Bayonets and Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum
Inspiring and amusing stories from the museum dedicated to the five regiments of the Sovereign's Foot Guards. As well as describing the artefacts in this great collection of regimental ephemera, the Director of this brilliant museum gives some insights into the museum, its background, the people who work there and the challenges involved in running an independent museum in these troubled times. Stories which will inspire, astound and amuse.
Bearskins, Bayonets and Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 10
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Andrew Wallis, MBE, OL, DL
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Season 1
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Episode 10
The virtual tour of the collection continues this week with the end of the Victorian age and the advent of the Edwardian era. We have a war in South Africa and the establishment of the Irish Guards. The Director covers the death of Queen Victoria and her funeral arrangements and then the creation of the last of the Foot Guard regiments, the Welsh Guards - all told through the exhibits on display in the museum.