Royal Green Jackets Museum. The Royal Green Jackets Museum is situated at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester, England.
The museum is one of several regimental museums that form part of Winchester's Military Museums. The museum brings together the collections of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry; renamed 1st Green Jackets from 7 November 1958, the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the Rifle Brigade.
These regiments went on to form the Green Jackets Brigade in 1958 and the Royal Green Jackets Regiment in 1966. It was opened by the Queen, the regiment's former Colonel in Chief, in December 1989.
The exhibition, entitled With the Rifles to Waterloo, opened in 2015 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, is focused on the Napoleonic Wars. Interactive displays and weapon handling exhibits cover the creation in 1800 of the Experimental Corps of Riflemen, and the story of the Light Division commanded by Sir John Moore in the Peninsular War.
Set against a display of original campaign medals from the period, spelling out WATERLOO the centrepiece of the exhibition is a 25 square metre diorama of the Waterloo battlefield on which 30,000 model soldiers and horses, with an accompanying sound and light commentary, depict the fighting on 18 June 1815. Other visitor attractions include the Early Years Section covering the raising in 1755 of The Royal American Regiment in North America, th
The museum is one of several regimental museums that form part of Winchester's Military Museums. The museum brings together the collections of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry; renamed 1st Green Jackets from 7 November 1958, the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the Rifle Brigade.
These regiments went on to form the Green Jackets Brigade in 1958 and the Royal Green Jackets Regiment in 1966. It was opened by the Queen, the regiment's former Colonel in Chief, in December 1989.
The exhibition, entitled With the Rifles to Waterloo, opened in 2015 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, is focused on the Napoleonic Wars. Interactive displays and weapon handling exhibits cover the creation in 1800 of the Experimental Corps of Riflemen, and the story of the Light Division commanded by Sir John Moore in the Peninsular War.
Set against a display of original campaign medals from the period, spelling out WATERLOO the centrepiece of the exhibition is a 25 square metre diorama of the Waterloo battlefield on which 30,000 model soldiers and horses, with an accompanying sound and light commentary, depict the fighting on 18 June 1815. Other visitor attractions include the Early Years Section covering the raising in 1755 of The Royal American Regiment in North America, th
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