The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum Message Board

If you have served in the Glosters or are researching an ancestor in the Regiment – there could be a photo on the new museum database. Read On !

The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum (SOGM) is pleased to announce that following eighteen months of hard work by our staff and a devoted band of volunteers, the content our web site http://www.glosters.org.uk/ has been very significantly upgraded:

- The online collection of the Gloucestershire Regiment has been updated with approximately 5,000 new records and about 1,800 new photographs, and the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars by a further 300 new records and about 150 new photographs.

- New, much higher quality images have also been added to most items, both new and existing and all such images are now available for download in an improved form.

- Most item descriptions have also been rewritten and extended to aid readability. Additionally we have improved our technology to make the collections more easily searchable, e.g. where we have the names of individuals in group photographs, all these names can now be searched for. (As a specific example, 1 GLOSTERS was photographed by platoons in Minden, Germany in 1975. If you served in the Battalion then – go to the web site and enter your name in the search bar at the top right, go to the collections and see a picture of yourself and the colleagues who served with you).

The SOGM museum web site is leading the field with its web technology which covers on line databases of all its collections and of soldiers who served which the regiments in the 19th century and in World War I. There is also an on line exhibition capability and a featured item from the museum collections which change regularly. So, if you haven’t done so for a while, please do visit the site and have a look.

We are soon to start work on the next web release and would welcome your feedback and requests as to what else you would like to see on the site. Please reply to this email with any comments you may have.

Also Never Fear a Foe of Any Kind, the shortened history of the Gloucestershire Regiment 1694 – 1991 has now been updated to cover the history until amalgamation in 1994 and will be on sale through the Museum Shop shortly. The latest edition of Cap of Honour, which covers the detailed history of the Gloucestershire Regiment, is also now available at a discounted rate as is the history of The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars.

Acknowledgements: The museum is extremely grateful in particular both to Dick Bessant for his professional skills as our volunteer photographer and to David Read, our resident military historian whose knowledge of all aspects of military history has been invaluable. The museum is also very well supported by the Friends of the Museum which is much appreciated. If you would like to become a volunteer or a Friend of the Museum, details can be found on the web site here: http://www.glosters.org.uk/