9th/12th Royal Lancers and Derbyshire Yeomanry Museum
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How to get there: The Regimental Museum Display is housed within the Soldier’s Story gallery at Derby Museum Soldier’s Story The military gallery at Derby Museum was re- furbished 2006-2008 with the aid of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), in partnership with the 9th/12th Lancers, the Derbyshire Yeomanry, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment and Derby City Council. The new gallery opened on the 25 October 2008. New high-specification cases have been installed along with new high-technology fixtures and fittings along with stunning graphics. There are over 200 objects that have never been seen before by the public including, weapons, medals, uniforms, personal equipment, navigation and communication equipment, food and other items. There are be two database units to explore our archive material, films and stories of soldiers as well as a mock-up of a tank turret and a small slice of a First World War trench along with sound-effects for both and a large video wall. Highlights include Victoria Crosses, on display for the first time, and a full-size reconstruction of a First World War era Lancer on horseback with full equipment. The 9th/12th Royal Lancers The museum traces the history of the 9th Lancers, 12th Lancers and since 1960 the 9th/12th Lancers, through its displays of uniform, medals, weapons and lances, sporting equipment, and personal items alongside that of material associated with the Sherwood Foresters and the Derbyshire Yeomanry. A touch-screen computer in the Gallery provides access to the museum’s archive of men who served in the First World War, 1914-1919 in particular but soldiers from the 1820s to the present day. The touch-screen is based on the museum’s digitised archive and represents only a small portion of the data that may have available. The material available in the gallery is strong for the Boer War and the First World War and weak for more modern periods. Derbyshire Yeomanry and The Sherwood Foresters In addition to the material of the 9th/12th Lancers, the museum also has displays covering the Derbyshire Yeomanry and the Derby/Derbyshire elements of the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, including the Derby Militias and the 95th Regiment of Foot. These are integrated with the Lancers displays in Soldier’s Story. 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s Own), 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers, 9th (Queen’s) Lancers, 9th Light Dragoons, 9th Dragoons, Wynne’s Dragoons, 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s), 12th (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers, 12th (Prince of Wales’s) Lights Dragoons, 12th Dragoons, Bowle’s Dragoons, Derbyshire Yeomanry Opening Hours: |
Address: Tel: 01332 641913 Fax: 00332 716670 Email: Curator: Admission charges: Others: 
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