Museums in London, Ontario - Royal Canadian Regiment Museum, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, Jet Aircraft Museum, Secrets of Radar Museum (Paperback)

Chapters: Royal Canadian Regiment Museum, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, Jet Aircraft Museum, Secrets of Radar Museum, London Regional Children's Museum, Banting House, Museum London. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum is a military museum located at the military base Wolseley Barracks (the former CFB London in London, Ontario, Canada, the historic home of the The Royal Canadian Regiment. Although original architectural drawings of Wolseley Hall drafted in 1886 show space allocated to a museum, the museum in its current form was officially opened in 1983 during the royal visit of H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. It is dedicated to the exploits of The Royal Canadian Regiment. Artifacts displayed in the museum cover the regiment's activities from the Yukon Gold Rush to their current work in Afghanistan. Among the regimentally significant items on display is a scarf which is an exact replica of one hand knit by Queen Victoria during the Second Boer War (one of eight that she made). The original scarf presented to Private Richard Thompson of The RCR is on display in the Canadian War Museum. Four such scarves were presented to soldiers of the British Army, and four to soldiers of colonial forces (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa). Other items of interest are a wooden cross from Flanders Fields, a recreation of a World War I trench and a street scene from the Italian Campaign. Outside the museum is a display of artillery and military vehicles, including a Universal Carrier, a 25 pounder and a Lynx reconnaissance vehicle. One of the early highlights of the museum's collection was the Victoria Cross of Milton Fowler Gregg which was donated in 1979, but was stolen the following year and never recov...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=162549