Rifles Museums Network
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For updates on other museums in the Rifles Museums Network, please go to their website or contact them directly.
The Rifles Regiment is the largest Infantry Regiment in the British Army, and was formed in 2007 from four forming regiments each comprising its own antecedent regiments; this gives us an illustrious heritage which can be traced back to 1685. All of our forming and most of our antecedent Regiments have their own museums, all of which link together to form a family of museums known as The Rifles Museums Network, representing the proud history of today’s Rifles Regiment in its entirety. These museums are located around the country and can give the visitor a flavour of our Regimental history and also portray some of our present day achievements. Whether you manage to visit just one of our museums, or visit all of them, you will always be guaranteed a friendly welcome and a great day out!
Each museum has a link that takes you directly to their own website. In brackets besides the name is the details of which antecedent regiment of The Rifles the collection relates to.
- Bodmin Keep: Cornwall’s Army Museum (The Light Infantry and The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry)
- Durham Light Infantry (DLI) Regiment Collection (The Durham Light Infantry)
- Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum (The Herefordshire Light Infantry)
- The Regimental Museum of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry)
- Royal Green Jackets (RIFLES) Museum (The Royal Green Jackets and its antecedents)
- Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum (The Gloucestershire Regiment)
- Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry)
- Somerset Military Museum (The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert’s) and Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry)
- The Keep Military Museum (The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment)
- Soldiers of Shropshire Museum (The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry)
- The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum (The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) and The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment)
For details of any museum events, please contact the relevant museum directly or visit their website.