The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum in Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom | Military Museum

Welcome to The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum in Winchester, England in the United Kingdom. Follow the fortunes of the Regiment?s active service including the Battle of Minden, Germany in 1759 through wars in China, Afghanistan, India (the Mutiny and the North West Frontier), and South Africa to the great campaigns of the First and Second World Wars. And, from 1946 onwards, follow the operational tasks carried out by the Regiment in Palestine, Malaya, Borneo, Jamaica, British Honduras, British Guiana and Northern Ireland.
The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum comprises four exhibition rooms with a connecting corridor. A suggested plan of viewing is available in a leaflet, on entry, but the visitor has at all times full freedom of choice as to circulation. Life size models are displayed showing how soldiers were dressed and equipped in the wars of the early and mid eighteenth century, the First and Second World Wars and the Malayan campaign of the 1950s.
The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum in Winchester, England's collection of artefacts on view comprises stands of old battalion colours (Sovereigns and Regimental), medals, orders and decorations, portrait miniatures, paintings, uniforms, weapons, battle ?trophies? and a display of photographs from the mid-19th century to date.
Serle's House - why the Name? This extremely handsome building was built for one William Sheldon (his father had been an equerry to King James II). In 1781 it was bought by James Serle, an Attorney. His son Peter served as an Officer in both the Hampshire Regiment of Militia and the Volunteers. So successful was he in the recruitment, training and command ofmen, that he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and appointed by the Lord Lieutenant to command the South Hants Militia. Amateur soldering, which began as a bobby, developed into his life?s main interest, to the detriment of his private fortune.
The large garden in front of Serle?s House was created by the Regiment after the Second World War. In May 1950 it was officially opened by the Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, The Duke of Wellington, and dedicated by the lord Bishop of Winchester as a garden of Remembrance to all members of Hampshire?s County Regiment who have fallen in battle or died in Service with the Regiment.